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A review by jesslolsen
Catastrophic Happiness: Finding Joy in Childhood's Messy Years by Catherine Newman
4.0
Catastrophic happiness
This was a really easy book to read, the layout of the chapters - with each chapter being a short story from her parenting experience - made it easy to pick up and read one or two in spare moments. Some chapters I liked more than others, and some chapters I disliked more than others.
I liked the brutal honesty (pg 153, I’m sure we all think something similar at some stage during pregnancy) although it was sometimes to the extreme. My suggestion for an alternative title: “Catastrophic Mindset...How to Chronically Overthink Yourself into a Nervous Breakdown” 😂
Birdy sounds like a character with some of the things she says. She has very intelligent conversations with the kids, it’s hard to imagine if I will too, when my children are a similar age.
A book I’d recommend to all my mum friends.
This was a really easy book to read, the layout of the chapters - with each chapter being a short story from her parenting experience - made it easy to pick up and read one or two in spare moments. Some chapters I liked more than others, and some chapters I disliked more than others.
I liked the brutal honesty (pg 153, I’m sure we all think something similar at some stage during pregnancy) although it was sometimes to the extreme. My suggestion for an alternative title: “Catastrophic Mindset...How to Chronically Overthink Yourself into a Nervous Breakdown” 😂
Birdy sounds like a character with some of the things she says. She has very intelligent conversations with the kids, it’s hard to imagine if I will too, when my children are a similar age.
A book I’d recommend to all my mum friends.