http://bitchmagazine.org/tag/mommy-wars The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://bitchmagazine.org/article/aint-i-a-mommy <p>Shortly before the birth of my first child nine years ago, while browsing the bookstore for mommy wisdom, I discovered Anne Lamott’s <i>Operating Instructions</i>: <i>A Journal of My Son’s First Year</i> and fell in love with the author and the book<i>.</i> More than any parenting truisms the book might have contained, it was Lamott’s writing style—funny, self-deprecating, and brutally honest—that kept me reading. The big mommy insight I gleaned from <i>Operating Instructions </i>was that I wasn’t quite as neurotic as Anne, so my kid and I would probably be all right. 
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