There Are Mums Way Worse Than You: Irrefutable Proof That You Are Indeed a Fantastic Parent

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Glenn Boozan is a WGA-winning and Emmy-nominated comedy writer whose credits include—among others— Conan, Home Economics, and Sarah Silverman’s I Love You, America. She lives in Los Angeles. Glenn Boozan: Oh, boy. Well, it sounds like a copout, but I really do want everyone to know—the moms listening—that there are moms way worse than you. I know it’s the title of the book, but I wanted the title to sort of be the message as well. And I promise you, I promise you, promise you, promise you, like my mom, sometimes we’ll talk about mistakes she made raising me and I’ll be like, I don’t remember that. I promise you; that your kids are going to love you because you’re trying your best. And it’s all right to give yourself some grace when you’re feeling bad about yourself or whatever or however you are as a parent.

Boozan isn’t a mom herself, but she believes that her outsider point of view is the central reason that she was able to write such a heartfelt and praiseworthy books about parents.The premise is simple: as long as we aren’t eating or abandoning our young on an ice floe, we’re killing it.

Glenn Boozan: So when I was growing up, I loved, loved books. I read all the time. I was a big Nancy Drew gal. I’d read like 100 of them in a weekend or whatever. And then I think when English classes started requiring these, like, long essays that we’re analyzing the text—I started sort of feeling like reading for a long time, especially just throughout middle school, through college, whenever you have English class—sort of feeling a little bit like an assignment rather than something I was encouraged to love. Bianca Schulze: I love it. I love it, too. I think every parent has maybe not done that but has at some point felt that way.The next time you feel bad for feeding your kid fast food on a busy night, try to remember that koala moms literally feed their babies poop. This is just one of the brilliant and hilarious takeaways from a new adult picture book that actually makes moms feel better about themselves instead of worse. Bianca Schulze: Yeah, you wrote it. And I’m a true believer that sometimes we can get so caught up in the trenches of our own lives that it takes someone with the ability to look in from the outside to shed a little bit of light or, in this case, bring a little comedy to lighten the mood. This is one of the cutest books ever. It has a lot of facts that are not only interesting, they are fun, too. It makes a fantastic, very memorable gift. A koala mom will feed her kids her own poop. Yes, poop. Panda moms will abandon one twin because raising two is, well, just too much. And every now and then a cuddly little hamster mom will —yup— eat her newborn pups. Glenn Boozan: Yeah, so I did a lot of research on different animals, and I just sort of looked up different types of moms in the animal kingdom. And there are a lot of good moms in the animal kingdom, like lion moms are very good. I think dog moms tend to be pretty okay. But then there are a lot of really bad ones. And so, I wanted to find more examples than just like, oh, a hamster, mommy eats her baby—because I think a lot of people have heard that one. And I was like, oh, no, I really want to get into the nitty-gritty, like, what are some really bad animal moms? So yeah, I did a lot of research on that.