Giveaway 1: You’re a Good Mom Book Pack
A few weeks ago I reviewed the new book by author, Jen Singer – You’re a Good Mom (and Your Kids Aren’t So Bad Either). It is seriously the most entertaining parenting book I have ever read and so full of funny stories, sane advice, and “I’ve been there” moments. Here is a short excerpt from my review:
For 21st Century mothers, there seem to be just two choices: Super Mom or Slacker Mom. One’s bad for you; one’s bad for your kids. So what’s a mom to do? Jen offers secrets for raise perfectly good kids in that sweet spot between flash cards at breakfast and “donuts for dinner, kids!”
Jen’s book is full of common sense advice, served with a side of humor and sass. The chapters have titles that are also the secrets like “Super Mom is Faking It”, “Your Kid’s Birthday Party Isn’t Your Coming-Out Celebration”, “Your Kid Shouldn’t Be Wearing a T-Shirt That Reads Future Trophy Wife” and “If You Think You’re a Cool Mom, Your Kids Think You’re a Pushover.”
Since I am not willing to give up my personal copy, Jen has graciously sent a You’re A Good Mom pack for me to give to one of our readers this week. What’s included? Start with the book, You’re a Good Mom (and Your Kids Aren’t So Bad Either) and then add a bar of handmade Hawaiian Malama soap (this smells amazing) made from oatmeal, grapefruit and Litsea essential oils courtesy of Kona Natural Soap, a Momma Needs a time-Out door hanger, and your own rubber ducky.
How do you win it? It’s easy. Share a story, sighting or comment about a Super Mom or Slacker Mom moment you have had or witnessed in the comments below! I know you have one!
Leave your comments between now and midnight Friday, April 25th. The winner will be contacted via email, so please be sure you leave a valid email address. Please leave your email address in the box under your name instead of in the comment section. Due to shipping costs, this giveaway is open to US and Canadian addresses only.
This is part of the big Bloggy Giveaways being hosted at Don’t Try This at Home. Stop back in – I will be adding more giveaways all week long!! Don’t miss a giveaway – here’s my complete list.
So I read the comments and think my best day is worse than the ones everyone comments on. My kids just run around dirty and happy. I guess that’s slacker – I’m pretending it’s just what use to happen all the time.
Slacker mom moments: cereal for supper when daddy isn’t home and occasionally putting them in bed with me and letting them watch PBS while I catch a few more minutes of sleep.
I think I have been a super mom at times. My baby is graduating high school in May. Between his older brother and him, I have attended more sporting events than I can remember. They both play golf, and we spent our summer vacations taking them to golf tournaments. The youngest has 2 state championship rings for golf, and we are heading back to state on May 5th and 6th. I know I will miss this when he is gone. My neice could use the book, she just went through a nasty divorce. Thanks for the chance.
Thanks!
Amie
breastblanket (at) gmail (dot) com
Slacker Mom makes sure there are plenty of family movies on the DVR for those times I’m not feeling well.
Thanks for a great giveaway!
Can I be a “super-slacker”? That sounds bad but I am definitely both. Like now, DH is putting the baby to bad. Slacker moment. Sign me up!
Super mom moment when my three year old says mom,”Your my buddy”. slacker mom moment when do something for him when he says “i can’t”
A slacker mom moment is we had cold cereal for dinner because I didn’t feel like making anything else.
Slacker mom moment – I let my kids order pizza when I’m too lazy or tired to cook.
My slacker mom moment came when I arrived home from a 10 hour work day to my teenage sons, who had been off school for the day, asking what I planned to fix for dinner. I was too tired to even think about fixing anything, they are capable (and good at) fixing family meals and I was sick of the diet I had been trying to follow. My answer was ‘I’m having a few cookies and a bowl of cereal before taking a bath; you’re welcome to join me at the kitchen counter’. Of course they didn’t like my offer so they fixed their own dinner that night. They still ask if we’re having cookies and cereal for dinner.
My mama disasters (usually occuring when I’m especially sleep deprived) aren’t pretty. It’s been better since I’ve been working on changing my heart. I don’t blow up like I used to.
Slacker Mom
I took DS to the bookstore and used a gift card given to my DH to buy him 5 new chapter books. Then we went to the shoe store where I had to practically sit on him to keep him from running up and down the aisles and trying on the high heels.
We pull into the driveway and I tell him to go straight inside and start getting ready for bed. Immediate whining about not having watched any TV, and wanting more to eat for dinner (mind you we’ve been gone for almost 2 hours and it’s almost 9 o’clock). I get mad, basically say he’s being a brat after all the stuff he just got and so much for being able to stay out late like a big kid (DS is 5).
Cross go the arms, out go the lips, in comes the attitude and he says he’s not going to bed EVER. So I say goodnight, get out of the car, set the alarm and go inside the door to count to 30. At 10, the car alarm goes off. I let him out and he’s got tears and snot DH comes up to see what all the commotion is and DS tells him “Mama locked me in the car and I was so scared I wanted to throw up. I could have died in there!”
I tried not to laugh because he was so upset. Not my proudest moment. Thanks for letting me vent and for the neat give away.
We’re having a slacker mom moment while I enter some bloggy giveaways!
Yours is a fun one! Thanks!
So I work from home doing stuff on my computer. One time when little man was just starting to get around (and before I had my laptop), he was playing on the floor at my feet while I was working. I saw him chewing on various cables, but I figured it was ok as long as it was the “plug” end.
That is until I saw “USB device not recognized” pop up on my desktop and realized that he was chewing on the end of a USB cable that was plugged into the back of the computer (and therefore receiving POWER!!!!).
Yeah, I should get the “slacker mom of the year” award for that one!
I would have to agree with some of the women here… I am totally having a slacker mom moment entering these contests. He is supposed to be getting ready for preschool! Oops!
Mama needs some me time.
What a great gift for one of the nursing home residents I read to for Mother’s Day.
Enter us.
M. Waters
hugapoohlouise@yahoo.com
Super mom…I let my DD go on a Band trip this week to the US (I’m in Canada) and I didn’t even tag along behind the bus!! LOL I think I’m actually kind of in between super mom and slacker mom.
Marion
I have been both slacker and super mom. How about mixing up the baby pictures and since child #2 wore some of child #1s hand me downs….. help now what do I do!?! use my x-ray vision of course! one is a girl and one is a boy. lol
Slacker Mom here entering contests while saying, “OK, sure you can watch another episode of Word World!”
oh my goodness, this would be perfect for me! i am a weary mommy and i need a time out!
also, the book sounds great!
so please please please count me in!
trepilynnell (at) juno (dot) com
This book sounds right up my alley. I seem to alternate between overachiever days and slacker days (I wear myself out overdoing it then veg out the next day, then repeat the roller coaster). Thanks for the chance to win this relaxing prize package right in time for Mother’s Day.
I’m being the Slacker Mom right now, unfortunately. All 3 of my little mischief makers have snuck downstairs and are being quiet. I should go see what they are up to in sister’s room – and I will – I just want to enjoy a few minutes of quiet first!
The book sounds like one that needs to go on my To Read list. I could use a few laughs and some inspiration. And the other things sounds just heavenly.
SuperMom moment: while my husband was in Honduras on a medical mission for the last 2 1/2 weeks my three toddlers and I completely spring-cleaned the house and yard!!
SlackerMom: What I’m doing right now! Bloggin’ away!
Love the giveaway. Enter me please!
My slacker mom moment- happens almost every night- When my baby wakes up at night to eat we both generally fall asleep in the recliner- rather than me taking the 60 seconds it would take to get up, put him in his crib and get in my own bed
Supermom: any mom is a supermom
Slacker mom….hey we all need a break every now and then. Oh yeah……..slacker mom GRANDMA!!!!!!
My friend would LOVE this! She is a new mom.
what a great giveaway! Slacker mom: has to be the bloggy carnival and all the time I’m spending on it. Supermom: The month I was home alone with my 5 kids (including twin 2 month olds) while my dh was in china
Mine is a super mom story. I have a friend with three kids three and under and she is amazing with them. On Sunday she fed her family of five and four others a fancy lunch. She is great! Thank you so much for the great giveaway, I would love to be the winner! Nw_wife(at)hotmail(dot)com
i was a complete slacker mom last weekend! i was terribly sick and left my hubby with my 2 year old and slept all day saturday! well after finding out my son had cake for breakfast lunch and dinner i felt even worse lol
My slacker moment lately has been checking out all th giveaway’s…my kids have never watched so many movies and cartoons-:(
what a great prize package!!
my own mom is a super mom – my washer has been broken , and she has graciously been helping me catch up by doing some for me – it is so wonderful to pick up my laundry clean and neatly folded!!
Don’t blame ya. I would’nt give up my copy either,(if I had one(smile). Sounds hilarious..my kind of humour. Thanks for shareing!
Super mom: I was a single working mom for over two years after my ex moved out and we divorced. Keeping body and soul together was a superhuman effort some days.
Slacker mom: There were occasions my kid had Cheetos for breakfast because I hadn’t gotten anything made, and there were mornings I was trying to find something in the laundry pile that wasn’t *too* dirty because I hadn’t managed to get the laundry done!
I think we all have our super moments and slacker moments!
My mother works in pediatric disabilities and I could only hope to be half the maternal woman she is..
~I do however need the guidance as we live on opposite sides of the state
Hi, I’m a slacker/super mom! (NOT a super slacker mom, Lol!)
Supermom moment…GOOD homeschooling days, teaching quilting, cooking, math skills while shopping…
…slacker daze? Letting all the dishes run out (I’ve been sick) & my daughter hunting for plastic spoons & paper plates (rather than wash a few dishes herself! Hmmm….)
Great contest, would love this book & prize, I’d read it & pass it along to other slacker/super moms I know!
~Anastazia in beautiful BC~
Thanks for a great giveaway! I hope i’m the lucky winner
its SO ok to be a slacker mom!
What a wonderful giveaway! My neice is becoming a new mom at age 40 and I think this would be an awesome gift for her if I were to win it.
Sounds like a book I want to read.
Super Moms like me (3 year old and 3 month old) are super just by surviving a long day and loving their children by enjoying every moment.
I’m not a mom (yet), but I am a teacher, so I will share a slacker mom story with you. I had a parent-teacher conference with the mom of one of my kindergartners last year & I told her that I was worried about her son & his lack of progress made throughout the school year. I then proceeded to suggest a few things that she could work on at home with him, to which she replied (very meanly, I might add), “Well, I guess we could try, but I really think that’s YOUR job – I mean, you are his teacher!”…which would explain why he had the learning issues that he had in the first place! NO one in his home wanted to extend the school-to-homelearning environment
Super mom moment: when my guys willing help someone else that needs help