'Mum, What's Wrong with You?'

101 Things Only Mothers of Teenage Girls Know

'Mum, What's Wrong with You?'
Lorraine Candy
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 288pg
3 Mar 2022 UK
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9780008407254
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One minute you are sniffing the top of your baby' s delicious new born head, lost in a soft velvety world of endless love and the next you are receiving the full force of a self-righteous teenage meltdown. There are 1001 things you don' t know about teenage girls until you live them. We are all familiar with the hormones, the illogical rage, the awful time keeping, and the daily dramarama. However, you don' t know that they will steal your stuff (and claim you never had it in the first place), bruise your self-esteem just as you hit your melancholy midlife, and love/hate you all day long with exhausting regularity seconds after turning 13. This stage of motherhood is not for the fainthearted. These are the loneliest of maternal times filled with pockets of shame you cannot share with anyone. You' re going to need help getting through this. Enter Lorraine Candy, mother of four children, three of whom are teenagers, and a long-term parenting columnist. In this very funny memoir, she also gives down-to earth advice and experts talk. She lights the way for other mums facing life with teenage girls, other mums caught in the perfect storm of parenting tomorrow' s bright and brilliant women just as they go through their own midlife unravelling. Most importantly, she is the woman who loves and lives with dragons.
' The mothering manual we all need' Claudia Winkleman' Parenting is a massive tsunami of inadequacy. This book is a gentle, supportive hand to help us ride that tsunami, both personal and objective. I found it deeply comforting' Davina McCall' This book is for all mums of teenage girls who are still standing despite the daily takedowns, the hourly scrutiny of our various failings and the moment-by-moment dissection of our useless boomer existence. It will make you want to run into the street shouting "See? It' s not me - it' s HER!"' Jackie Clunes
Lorraine Candy is a mother of four and an award-winning journalist with over a decade of experience writing about parenting in national newspapers and magazines, including columns with the Sunday Times Magazine and Daily Mail. She is also the co-host of the chart-topping lifestyle podcast Postcards from Midlife, which features the stories of spirited midlife women and tackles parenting adolescents. Formerly the editor-in-chief of Sunday Times Style, ELLE and Cosmopolitan, she is now focusing full-time on writing. Lorraine is a keen open-water swimmer and dog lover and grew up in Cornwall.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780008407254
Published: 3 Mar 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Fourth Estate
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 288

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