Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay: And Other Things I Had to Learn as a New Mom
Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay: And Other Things I Had to Learn as a New Mom
The moment the second line on the pee stick turns pink, women discover they’ve entered a world of parenting experts.
Friends, family, colleagues, the UPS delivery guy — suddenly everybody is a trove of advice, much of it contradictory and confusing. With dire warnings of what will happen if baby is fed on demand and even direr warnings of what will happen if he isn’t, not to mention hordes of militant “lactivists,” cosleeping advocates, and books on what to worry about next, modern parenthood can seem like a minefield.
In busy Mom-friendly short essays, Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay delivers the empathetic straight dirt on parenting, tackling everything from Mommy & Me classes (”Your baby doesn’t need to be making friends at three months old — you do! But not with people you’ll meet at Mommy & Me”) to attachment parenting (”If you’re holding your baby 24/7, that’s not a baby, that’s a tumor”). Stefanie Wilder-Taylor combines practical tips with sidesplitting humor and refreshing honesty, assuring women that they can be good mothers and responsibly make their own choices. A witty and welcome antidote to trendy parenting texts and scarifying case studies, Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay provides genuine support, encouragement, and indispensable common-sense advice.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Funny and entertaining
I bought this book wanting something funny and entertaining while I wait for the arrival of my baby. I laughed and laughed throughout the whole book. The author is funny and she takes you through situations that come up in every moms life. I also bought her other book “Nap time is the new happy hour”. And fell in love with it too. I definitely recommend this to mom’s who want a fun easy read with lots of laughs.
5 Stars Snarky new mom tells all
This book was hilarious. Anyone who is a mom, or even a nanny can fully appreciate this book. If you are a new mom, or a mom to be, run right out and pick up a copy. You won’t want to miss out on the advice this book has to offer.
Stefanie Wilder-Taylor holds nothing back in her candid tales from the first year of her first child’s life. Each short story is a bit of advice that you might not hear at the local mommy and me classes. She talks about everything from nipples nearly falling off trying to breastfeed, to mommy personality types on the playground (avoid alpha mom, you will never be good enough for this one).
Her advice isn’t researched per say, she has more of hands on experience. She learned that the most important lessons you can find outside of a book, just by using your own common sense.
Stefanie also warns her readers of the many differing and strong opinions a new mother will face. From being bombarded at Babies R Us with questions about her views on breastfeeding (while only 6 months pregnant), to being scolded while at a stop light for not having the bar on her child safety seat fully lowered, Stefanie has seen and heard it all.
This book is written by a friend of Chelsea Handler. Its clear to see that they get along famously in their snarky commentary. Check this book out if you liked “Are you there vodka? Its me Chelsea” by Chelsea Handler.
2 Stars I can’t believe she got paid to write this!
I just have to say, I barely review anything but had to comment on this book..that’s how strongly I felt about it.
First of all, this is better than ‘Dirty Little Secrets,’ which was something more suitable for a website than a book! Second, this author just loves to complain about baby products that didn’t work for her (as if they would never work for anyone else) and only wants to promote her way. I might have found her funny if she was a bit humble about her opinions. Her husband must be a publisher because she doesn’t even write well!
1 Stars Pretty awful
I am not a fan of this book, and I definitely do not recommend it.
I think this has got to be one of the most negative books I’ve ever suffered through … the only reason I finished it was so I could legitimately review it.
I love the big Motherhood Reveal that some authors do so well (Celia Rivenbark, for example) where they let you know that it’s not all kittens and sunshine. No one’s trying to be June Cleaver, but this author is just so awful. Her writing is so bland and stupid - same safe “funny” motherhood jokes that we hear from the likes of Ben Mulroney and Billy Bush, where it’s just so ubiquitous, you feel like she’s just a writer on Access Hollywood or something.
I’m not going to be tagging it as “humor” because you know … it isn’t funny.
5 Stars They most certainly are not!
This is just such a good, fun read. I laughed a lot and kept reading way into the night. It was so refresing to read something that didn’t seem like the author was being censored or trying to be too politically correct. All in all, this one is a keeper. Also liked: Baby Laughs: The Naked Truth About the First Year of Mommyhood.
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