Women Are Scary {Book Review}

Women Are Scary {Book Review}

Having friends when you’re single and/or childless is so very different than when you start having kids. Remember in school, when you went into a new situation, you’d scan the area to see most everyone else already in pairs or groups of friends? It’s not so different for moms; and that’s what the book, Women Are Scary, by Melanie Dale, helps explain to readers and also offer help to overcome it!

When you show up at the park for the first time with your little ones spilling out of the van, scan the swing set for anyone you might recognize, and notice that all the other moms are already hanging out in pairs, you realize that your awkward adventure of finding mom friends has only just begun. Too many women are frazzled and lonely, isolated in their minivans while schlepping bags, strollers, and munchkins to and fro across town. It doesn’t have to be this way.

In this hilarious yet thought-provoking guide to “momlationships,” blogger Melanie Dale uses a dating analogy to help women get more intentional about bonding with each other.

“We are better together,” she writes. “We make each other better moms, better humans. We need each other, because mothering is just too darn hard.” Moms will discover how to make sure their kids aren’t the only ones having fun, develop lifelong friendships, share their burdens, and join together to impact communities around the world.

This is certainly a funny book, filled with several laugh out loud moments that had my family looking at me strangely for busting a gut while I was reading. And it also had several true to life, “yeah I’ve been there” moments that most of us can probably remember.

It’s hard to maintain friendships with your single friends when you become a mom. They don’t have all the same struggles or little people relying on them for everything. They may even have more freedom in their schedule where as you may be running like mad all day long!

It’s hard to be a mom, one of the most awesome jobs on the planet, surrounded by other cool moms, and feel alone. But women are scary, we can go from friend to enemy in no time at all. We shouldn’t, though. We should build each other up, support each other during our struggles, and laugh and have fun right alongside our families and each other.

Women Are Scary would be a great read for any mom, whether she’s already struggling to form those mom/friend bonds or is going to be making that leap from “not responsible for little people” to a mom who must keep these little guys alive and healthy. You can pick up your copy from Family Christian today.

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