“She’s not really miserable.
She’s creating her way through the ups and downs of life’s most perplexing
assignment – raising humans. Sharon’s book is a sassy, sparkling help list for
a mom’s most dreaded job, sending her kid to college. You will laugh, you will
wince, you will buy two books so you can cut one up to send pages to your
friends.” - Becky Blades, Author of Do
Your Laundry or You’ll Die Alone: Advice Your Mom Would Give if She Thought You
Were Listening
Welcome to that special time of every parent’s
life - when
they’ve done all they can to prepare their kids for the next step, and
the time has come… their kid is leaving home and going to college! Miserable
Mom celebrates the ups and downs of one of life’s most emotional parenting
moments, conveniently coinciding with mid-life.
Mom-blogger, illustrator and popular influencer
Sharon Brecher shares her first-hand experience with the daily angst and
indignities of motherhood in her humorous comic strips that portray the do’s
and don’ts of sending your kid to college. Through illustrations and
transparent slice-of-life narrative, Miserable Mom: The Do’s and Don’ts of Sending Your Kid to College provides an authentic connection with others
who are also navigating this emotional time. Delivering an unapologetic
perspective of motherhood, Sharon shines a light on the stream of consciousness
we all internalize and helps us laugh at ourselves.
“If I’ve learned anything over this process, it’s that every last one of us
Miserable Moms gets a case of the crazies when we prepare to send our children
off to college,” Sharon says. “The degrees to which we veer close to the edge
may vary, the issues over which we obsess may diverge,
and our fears and emotions may be very different. What matters is that we can
look at each other, recognize the vulnerability, and help each other through this transition with a little
laughter.”
By normalizing common parenting and mid-life insecurities with a dose of
humor, Miserable Mom will help you feel supported while
enduring this incredibly special time of parenting college students.
Miserable Mom is a comical and honest survival guide for any parent facing
this stage of parenthood. In it, Sharon tackles cringeworthy subjects such as:
- High Anxiety: The Do’s and Don’ts of Pre-College Prep
- Holy Sh*t Your Kid is Leaving the Nest!
The Do’s and Don’ts of Moving Out… and Moving In
- The Overbearing
Parent’s Reminder: Step Back So Your Child
Can Shine at College
- The New Normal Back
at Home: The Do’s and Don’ts of Stalking,
Suffocating and Controlling Those Left Behind
- Raging Hormones & Mid-Life: Keeping
it Cool When You’re Burning up Inside and You Just Want to Turn Back Time.
- Live and Learn: Put on Your Best Game
Face, Don’t Forget To Laugh When Your Crazy Slips Out and Remember All Parents
Are In This Together
- The Emotions of Change: Now what?
- And So Much More …
Sharon L. Brecher is a mom-blogger, writer, illustrator,
wife, and Miserable Mom. Her first book, “Miserable
Mom: The Do’s and Don’ts of Sending Your Kid to College”, calls out the
absurdities of this stage of motherhood with a wry sense of humor and a
self-deprecating wink to her own place in the emotional merry-go-round. You can follow Sharon’s comical perspective on navigating the often-humorous
balance of raising young adults while maneuvering mid-life on her popular
Instagram page @MiserableMoms and her website.
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