What a charming, warm, human look at Parenthood. If you are looking for the "Follow this Method and have Perfect Children System"- this isn't it. But if you decide to skip over it because its not; what a shame, you will miss out on the real deal of raising families. Jennifer Grant lets you look into her life in a very personal way, beginning in her own life as child. Coming from a family of divorce she decided early on what her perfect mother role would look like, using what she missed as things her children would not. Then reality began to hit; that no matter how she tried to control it, things just weren't going to work out as planned. Because like her sub -title tells you: families are messy and they are an adventure. This is my first reading of any of Jennifer Grant's material but I really love her wit, her openness and her free style of writing. She's honest in her failures, and in her successes; not the least bit afraid to show where God has helped her and put very interesting people in her life to help too. As a mother of 4 grown children, it would have been nice to have a "friend" like her close by to reassure me that one small mistake in child rearing hadn't "scarred" my children for life. She could have saved me lots of agony and self-condemnation if I'd know that these things happen raising children and its normal. From this side of motherhood I know it now but I really didn't them. How would I explain Jennifer's book in two words? Entertaining Truth.
This book is available at: http://worthypublishing.com/books/MOMumental/
Also available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
*I received the book in this post compliments of Worthy Publishing via Handlebar Marketing for purposes of this review, however all opinions are my own.
About the Author:
Jennifer Grant is mother to four children and author of Love You More: The Divine
Surprise of Adopting My Daughter (2011). For more than a decade she wrote for papers in
the Sun-Times newsgroup. Currently she freelances for the Chicago Tribune and is a
regular contributor to hermeneutics, Christianity Today magazine's blog for women. Grant
is a Wheaton College graduate who received her master's in English and Creative Writing
from Southern Methodist University. She lives outside of Chicago, IL.
Momumental was so encouraging to me as a mom. Jennifer Grant offers solid advice, not just on parenting but on how to be intentional about building a family culture. She writes honestly about her own mistakes, her own perfectionism, and how her own family of origin impacted her. She also tells beautiful stories about her family that made me laugh and cry. I’m recommending this book who anyone who is raising children—which is a messy but beautiful art.
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