Motherhood Comes Naturally (and Other Vicious Lies)

Jill Smokler

Apr 2013 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

From the New York Times bestselling author of Confessions of a Scary Mommy and the wildly popular blog ScaryMommy.com, a hilarious new essay collection that exposes the “vicious lies” that every parent is told.

Newly pregnant and scared out of her mind, Jill Smokler lay on her gynecologist’s examination table and was told the biggest lie she’d ever heard in her life: “Motherhood is the most natural thing in the world.”

Instead of quelling her nerves like that well intentioned nurse hoped to, Jill was instead set up for future of questioning exactly what DNA strand she was missing that made the whole motherhood experience feel less than natural to her. Wonderful? Yes. Miraculous? Of course. Worthwhile? Without a doubt. But natural? Not so much.

Jill’s first memoir, the New York Times bestseller Confessions of a Scary Mommy, rocketed to national fame with its down and dirty details about life with her three precious bundles of joy. Now Jill returns with all-new essays debunking more than twenty pervasive myths about motherhood. She’s here to give you what few others will dare: The truth.

Ratings and reviews

I laughed, and cried over the absolute truths in this book. My own wonderful amazing little monster has thrown such a fit in the grocery store, that the clerk followed me out, thinking I was kid napping him when I picked him up kicking and screaming and walked out as he screamed "I'm not going with you!" Knowing she was there I reprimanded him on the sidewalk, and won the outside of her and for other parents.. Score one for me, he's never done it since from his own embarrassment.

Fantastic book for any mom in the real world. Sent my mom-in-law this book on mothers day it was so good. Warning: some swearing but appropriately.

Loved it.

About the author

Jill Smokler is a New York Times bestselling author and domestic satirist whose candor about marriage and parenting has made her an unlikely hero among a new generation of women. She holds a degree in graphic design and psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and has three children. Married to her college sweetheart, she and her family live in downtown Baltimore.