Based on the hugely popular website, ScaryMommy.com, Confessions of a Scary Mommy digs deep into the underbelly of parenting and tackles the issues many mothers are too afraid to expose. From swearing at your children in your head, to admitting to hating other people’s kids, to dreading school breaks and family vacations, author Jill Smokler takes an irreverent look at the unglamorous side of parenting.  A mix of original essays and anonymous confessions that hundreds of thousands of parents have posted on ScaryMommy.com, the book serves as a rallying cry to imperfect parents everywhere to embrace their own approach to parenting and stop competing with other moms who pretend to have it all under control. “Motherhood isn’t a competition. The only ones who lose are the ones who race the fastest.”

     Sometimes naughty, always brutally honest, Smokler takes no prisoners—including herself and her own family—as she pokes holes in the facade of motherhood and surfaces what moms really think.