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Rebecca Eckler, Wiped: Life with a Pint-Sized Dictator. (Key Porter Books)
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Rebecca Eckler is one of Canada's most popular journalists and writers. She has a weekly parenting column in the Globe and Mail, and her work has appeared in such publications as Elle, Fashion, Chatelaine, House and Home, Mademoiselle, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times. She is also the founder of ninepounddictator.blogspot.com. Eckler's previous book, Knocked Up!, has been published in Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Hungary, and Turkey.
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Sunday, April 1, 2007
Lord Nelson Hotel
730PM
with Alan Cumyn and Maureen Hull
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--------------------------------------------------- -New mothers, more than anyone, need a good laugh. This is it.Most experienced mothers lie. The mother who says her baby was an angel who always slept through the night? Liar. The mother who says she couldnt ever imagine life without her baby? Liar. The mother who says having a baby
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hasnt changed anything in her life? Liar. The mother who says she easily figured out how to use the Diaper Genie? The biggest liar ever! So why dont mothers tell the truth? Why arent they speaking up?Wiped! is the truthalbeit a hilarious look at the truthabout what its like for the first two years after giving birth. Most parenting guides focus on the first year, even though the fun doesnt really begin until at least the eighth month. Newborn babies are like old menthey fart loudly and make strange noises and faces, and they dont care in front of whom. Wiped! is written in the same diary-like, irreverent manner as Knocked Up. But instead of daily entries, the book is divided into three-month increments, ending on the second birthday of baby Rowanthe Dictator.Wiped! expresses what every new mother thinks, and what every other mother went through, but is too shy, embarrassed or ashamed to share with the rest of us.
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