Download Motherhood Smotherhood: Fighting Back Against the Lactivists, Mompetitions, Germophobes, and So-Called Experts Who Are Driving Us Crazy AudioBook Free
What's the essential thing a woman will when she believes she might be pregnant? She Googles. And it runs downhill after that. While the internet is packed with soothing and cheerily supportive articles, it is also littered with hyper-judgmental message boards and loads of contradictory and scolding information. Motherhood Smotherhood takes parents through the trenches of new parenting, warning listeners of the pleasures and perils of mommy websites, new parent groups, self-described "lactivists", sleeping fascists, incessant craze items on working versus non-working mothers, and where leisure time and self-esteem goes to expire: Pinterest (cool off from the hand-made flower headbands for baby!). JJ Keith interweaves conversations of what "it takes a town" really means (hint: a lot of unwanted advice from older strangers who may have grown up in real villages) and a take-down of the increasing "make your own baby food" movement (just mush a banana with a fork!) with laugh-out-loud observations about the many flaws she made as a frantic new mother with too much access to high speed internet and a lot of questions. Keith slashes to the reality - be it about "perfect" births, parenting experts, the growing tide of vaccine rejecters, the enjoyment of blanketing Facebook with baby pics, or germophobia - to go interactions about parenting from experts espousing blanket truths to amateurs relishing in what a big, untidy pile of joy and trauma having a baby is.
