Just Let Me Lie Down: Necessary Terms for the Half-Insane Working Mom
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- ISBN13: 9780316068284
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Kristin van Ogtrop knows she’s lucky–fulfilling career, fantastic spouse, three healthy kids, and, depending on the hamster count, an impressive roster of pets. She also knows she is tired. Permanently.
Using tales and insights from her own life, she provides a lexicon for the half-insane effective mom. Anyone who has left a meeting to race to the Halloween parade immediately understands van Ogtrop’s definition of “Kill the messenger”as“The action you must take in order to forget about the office for a time–that is, to remove your Blackberry/Treo/iPhone/whatever from your person and store it as far away as your neurotic self will allow.” Filled with essays, lists, and resonant observations, JUST LET ME LIE DOWN establishes van Ogtrop as the Erma Bombeck of the new millennium.
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Admittedly, I am not the target audience for this book. I am primarily a stay-at-home mother, though I have worked at times and I do know that situation to be reasonably a balancing act. Just Let Me Lie Down is a lot about the leader’s confused schedule. This was not a full-tale with a amusing anecdote, but rather, her examples in life and motherhood tucked into glossary-style definitions. There were some topics that all mothers could have related to, never-ending laundry, for instance, but Ogtrop’s definitions would regularly turn into montages on her “forceful-rope walk” of life.
I couldn’t help asking myself, if she doesn’t have time to care how her children look or manage her family tree, where did she find all the hours it took to compose this book? I will say she was kind to stay-at-home mothers and effective mothers alike. She seems to pity us all while using a slightly self-deprecating and self-absorbed voice. The tale seemed sad to me. Overall, it wasn’t my taste, but I do reflect the leader had excellent intentions. All the best.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
This is a cutesy read that all of us effective mums can tell to. In fact, we could have written it. Set up in alphabetical format, a tongue and cheek review of all our daily afflictions, disguised as “necessary terms for the half-insane effective mom”. I LIVE THEM, I DON’T WANT TO READ ABOUT THEM! For instance, N – N is for Nanny Envy. And a blurb telling you what to do about it – spend more money on your child care. I wish I had the hour back for the reading time wasted on this book. I should have just taken a nap.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I loved this book! I don’t regularly have time to read, so I’m very selective in what I do read.
Laughed out loud regularly! It’s nice to know that there are more of us “half-insane effective moms” out there. In the end we will survive it all and so will our children. We shouldn’t feel guilty about effective and trying to raise a family tree. It isn’t simple and undoubtedly we would all rather be raising our children 24/7 ourselves as a replacement for of having a name else raise them for us, or would we?? I like my kids with all my heart and not a day goes by that I don’t miss them, but I know that I am a better parent for them because I don’t spend all day every day with them. I really admire persons moms who stay at home and are successful with raising children 24/7. As appealing as it sounds, if I did that I would be a completely insane stay at home mom, so I am pleased to be only half-insane and effective. You have to do what’s right for you and your family tree and this book helps make you feel like it’s all okay.
Delight in!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
How right. In times when both members of a marriage need to bring in an income , this delightful read brought comfort to the “better half”. She told me that it was very simple to read , and flowed from one page to the next. The leader was able to shed light on an overworked and over-tasked sector of our population.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
This book has kept me laughing out loud since the first page. I do not normally read a lot, but I have gotten through this book so quick…a very simple read. It’s so nice to hear that I am not the only one who feels “half-insane!” It hit so close to home, I felt as though I wrote the book (I, too, have 3 boys!)! Thank you, Kristin, for building me laugh at myself and for sharing all of the joys, sorrows, regrets of effective motherhood.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5