My Child and Other Mistakes: The hilarious and heart-warming motherhood memoir from the comedy star

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When my child is at nursery, I end the day knowing I have worked hard, and she has done 20 activities she would never get to do at home. My breasts are deflated, dragged down by the time they spent being a constantly-replenishing-vending-machine. Maybe a re-read at a more relevant time in my life would glean a different review, but for now, it's this one.

My Child and Other Mistakes: How to ruin your life in the

Despite being childless myself, I really enjoyed this account of Taylor's experiences when pregnant and her life as she adjusts to being a mother. This is an absolutely amazing book, and I would absolutely recommend it to anyone who is pregnant or just given birth. As Ellie says herself, she is fully aware of the fact that her experience is of more privilidged women (supportive partner, family, generally healthy, has a job etc. A refreshing, hilarious, raw and brutally honest account of the process of deciding to become a parent and everything that follows, whatever the path this may take. My Child and Other Mistakes: How to ruin your life in the best way possible is a memoir/ biography book written by stand-up comic, broadcaster and actress Ellie Taylor that takes the reader on a journey through the author’s experiences with parenthood.Explain how we don’t always know the answers or the right way to behave, but we can make the best choices we can – and accept if we get it wrong.

My Child and Other Mistakes: How to ruin your life in the My Child and Other Mistakes: How to ruin your life in the

Taylor’s book is naturally predominately lead by her own experiences of pregnancy, childbirth (in this case via C-section) and being a mother, however, she does also pull anecdotes from other mothers and parents that have been part of her life and these add further depth (and occasionally some comedy) to the narrative. Examples of unhelpful thinking styles include catastrophising (assuming the very worse will happen), black and white thinking (seeing things only as either good or bad), ignoring the positives (dismissing when good things happen and only focusing on when bad things happen), fortune-telling (assuming they know what is going to happen) and over-generalisation (assuming that because something happened once, it will always be that way).watching your child patrol the swings like a nightclub bouncer pushing away other toddlers while screaming, ‘NO! I'd highly recommend reading this if you are thinking about having a child, have one already or are thinking of another; even if it's to laugh at the ridiculousness of knowing she's right. It'll have lots of experiences, which you will go, ‘Oh my gosh, yes that happened, and yes, that’s awful! For those like me who have recently experienced preganancy and newborn life, it is a great book to reflect on what you have experienced so far - and to realise that those times where you think, or thought, you were doing a bad job, you were just / are just a human being and doing the absolute best that you can. By the time your kid is a toddler your living room will be crammed with a mass of plastic detritus, as well as one or two obligatory wooden items bought by child-free friends.