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Anne Lamott's book Operating Instructions gives an outlook of a mildly disadvantaged woman. This journal is a chronicle of her son Sam's first year. She is fiercely self-deprived, funny and unafraid to talk about the dark side of parenting an infant: the fear, exhaustion, anger, emotional swings; that 4 a.m. inability to cope with the crying neediness of the baby. She questions her faith, which she cannot justify on a why she was pregnant, but still hopes that God loves and guides her the way a parent loves and guides a child. I am interested in surveying on how many new mothers have near manic-depressive, crazy feelings like the ones this author describes. She alternates hating the baby, wanting to throw him down the stairs, calling him "scum," etc.---with loving the baby so much she swoons, calling him breathtakingly beautiful, and being unable to imagine anything more wonderful ever happening to her. I got uncomfortable reading this book because the emotions were so raw and I c
This is often more traumatic where children's feelings are also involved. ould picture the child reading the book later in life and getting his feelings. I would need someone to talk to about my day, my kids, my job, and my life. I got uncomfortable reading this book because the emotions were so raw and I could picture Sam reading the book later in life and getting his feelings hurt. If there is one thing that I have learned reading this book, was the real deal on life. I learned that not everyone has a life like I do. She is a single parent barely able to pay the bills, however she has a tremendous support network of family, friends, in addition to the people of her church, all of who clearly love Sam and love her. My mother raised my brother and I herself, and as I got older she told me how big of a sacrifice it is as a single mother. As for myself I take things for granted too habitually. On the other hand, I stop being for it when it starts doing some serious potential injury to other people like Sam when he grows up. Maybe, it is the Lexington society that I live in but that is not to excuse myself in any sense. On one hand, I'm all for putting down exactly what you actually think/feel, especially in a non-fiction book. Overall read this book, the details are soon good, it makes you feel like you have experienced it. I don't think that I can succeed as a single mother, all the emotional up and down would drive me off the Tobin Bridge in Boston. If one day I was going to have a baby, it would defiantly be with the man that I love.
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