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Confessions of a 'Scary Mommy'

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Hey all you moms -- Do you do sneaky things that you might fear lead you to be on the bad mother lists.

Don't worry you're not alone Joseph smuggler is the founder of scary mommy dot com.

It's the online blog the chronicles the trials and tribulations of motherhood.

Now -- new book confessions of a scary mommy has hit shelves just in time for -- of this -- and what a great gift for a -- -- that it's a little counter intuitive because.

These are confessions of -- basically saying the sneaky things that there sort of ashamed to admit it but that make everybody feel better because they know they're not alone for doing those sneaky -- absolutely here are some of them that I totally respond to one.

Join a -- just for the free day care that's so that she can sit in -- locker room and read magazine ends.

There was one last week from somebody who.

Went into the -- -- -- her foursquare would check occur in there and that would sit in the parking lot reading magazines as big as the foursquare would have a real fact on her figure that's right of course but it just shows that moms are desperate for a little bit of a great -- Okay so another -- is sometimes I like to get sick just so I have an excuse to go to bed at 6 PM yeah.

Last year had pneumonia and I thought it was best thing ever I was so excited to have a break in of course everybody else in my house -- sick of the time and I had to take -- up it's like this five day stick it in a perfect world that is sometimes I let my children -- sit in front of the TV.

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Now it just seems that we all -- -- the periods in our career as a mother where we excel and where we fail and you might see another mom who's.

Yelling at -- can -- -- you know giving them can see it.

At -- are just doing something that you -- I never give up you don't know because you don't know what the story is that got them to that point -- point and similarly you say I shall not compete sane thing -- don't look at what other mothers or did you think it's great it's easy to get caught up in the -- looks like she has an all put together in his handling everything easy but you have no idea what's going on behind the scenes.

And -- when you -- I think that this is sort of the overarching message is.

-- -- -- -- no mom is perfect man -- know mom is perfect we all.

We all -- have moments where were banging our head against the wall and wondering you know if we are just botching up our kids completely but we do the best we can and they love our kids and nurture them and hope that they know that and that's that the best we can do -- we feel like we have three perfect.

I don't we feeling that I think it's it's an important.

Role that we take weekend we want to do what do you are back test and I don't think we can do our best by trying to compete with everybody else I think we just -- do you do.

The best we can and not get caught up in and among Greece's some of the that you have the blog you blog so people continue to write teach it I get any excess fat so what are some what some of the funniest one you've gotten this week -- -- this week.

Nobody there so many favorite.

My -- -- -- -- where it's moms hiding it.

You know hiding the best chocolate in like the broccoli drawer RG you know trying to savor that one little thing for themselves not like the rest of the family get -- and yeah we do what we can to keep ourselves being in hiding -- that I'm sure is it popular -- -- -- mothers' day remember guys.

-- always acceptable.

-- smuggler -- the book is confessions of the scary mob thanks so much space and a -- to -- here.