All I'm saying.

Thank God Anne Lamott 'exploited' her son and wrote about her first year as his mother.

I'm not sure I'd have made it out of my first year with two kids without that book.

That I took something from reading about her experience and that she made many dollars off that story must be purely evil and Ms. Lamott should have known better.

(There are a thousand places to have this mommy-blog debate if you would like. I'm not opening comments for it to happen here. I don't want to hear why you agree with me or why you disagree with me because I have a pretty good grasp of the discussion already from both sides.)

[Edit: Oops. I left comments open when I set this post to publish. Now comments are off. Sorry.]

Comments

[angiewis]

I loved that book as well as many of her other ones.

I can't tell you how many tips and new ways of doing things regarding parenting that I've learned from "mommy-bloggers".

[Suebob Davis]

I don't have kids but I read her book when it first came out. When I started reading mom blogs, that book was the first thing I thought of - "oh, wow, people actually telling the truth, just like Anne Lamott did."

As a childless person, it was a relief to me, too. The "oh, isn't it so preciousssss" school of mommyhood makes mothers seem so fake and automaton-like. From mom blogs, I have gotten new respect and compassion for mothers.