Took me awhile to finally finish the book due to life circumstances. Some interesting advice and I appreciated the honesty of what parenting is like. Some things were outdated and not really recommended anymore but I fear that’ll be true for any and all parenting books some day anyways! I wouldn’t necessarily say this is a “must” for all parents compared to other parenting self help books but not necessarily a bad one either; happy to have read it and will hopefully someday get to share funny parenting quips of my own

As a mom of 3 girls, this is a book we can all connect with. Those crazy stories that we don't think anyone could possibly believe, but as parents we have been there. It was a solid quick read that is meant for the motherhood readers.

Jennifer Tiras is a talented storyteller and has some really sweet stories about raising her four sons. She is able to see the humor in the challenge of raising children. Where she lost me a bit was the posing of advice with the tone of "I did it this way so you should too." She is a wonderful writer and I would have rather read this as a memoir than a self-help book. She has some insightful things to say about raising teenagers in the modern world, but her "advice" about pregnancy, birth, and toddlerhood was very outdated and is not supported by current medical research (i.e. asking for an enema during birth or even the discussion of episiotomies).

Very informative and it should be given to first time parents.

I actually learned a lot and it will help me if and when I decide to have any children.


Thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and or the author for giving me the chance to read this book and I am freely leaving my review.

The new "What To Expect When You're Expecting"! This book is full of tips, incite and stories, on what parenting is REALLY like. It gives you honest advice of what you can expect in parenthood that some people might shy away from telling you, all the way from pre-conception and then throughout their entire childhood. I think the only thing I'd suggest, is I feel like when parents read books like this, they appreciate snippets/advice/stories being broken up a little better to refer to later on, rather than several paragraphs bunched together going into detail