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The desperate housewife craze of today is sending the wrong message to women and their children everywhere, says Shine. When did being a good mum and being proud to stay home with the kids go out of style? When did it become acceptable to cheat on your husband? When did mothers start dressing like their teenage daughters? Shine finds the standards of today's desperate housewives astonishingly low, and she has set out to teach women how they can be good mothers, look good, and feel good about the choices they make. Being a housewife does not mean you are on house arrest or can't be satisfied in your marriage. So step up, realize that you want to be home with your children, and embrace your life. Shine shares her ten steps for loving the housewife life: Stop whining! Snap out of your desperate housewife phase and start counting your blessings; Be proud! Being an at-home-mom is the most important job, so let's demand some respect; Stop looking like a housewife; Find the hot mamma inside of you and release the sexual goddess within; Make your marriage a priority: stop using motherhood as an excuse, give your husband some attention; Bond with your home: bring back the art of homemaking; Get back in the kitchen: talk to your family at a dinner that you actually cooked for them; Keep your girlfriends: even stay-at-home moms need to get out of the house sometimes; Make time for yourself: remember, you're allowed to have a personal life!; Don't take it all so seriously: laugh sometimes, scream sometimes; Don't wish for someone else's problems. The grass isn't always greener. Shine also includes a daily schedule to show how she pulls it all together, fast and easy recipes for even the most kitchen-phobic, and online and magazine resources to help you embrace your inner housewife.
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Daria Shine is a television producer who left the business to stay home with her children. She was the senior producer of Newstalk Television, one of the first 24-hour cable news networks.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book has a great idea behind it, it helps hosewives feel good about what they are doing, feel good about making the often very difficult decision to stay at home with their children. However it is written from the perspective of a well-off rather insensitive American woman who may not have written it for entirely the right reasons. Instead of being inclusive of all mothers as she is urging society to do, she blatantly stands against working mothers on many accounts. To give her credit, she does acknowledge the fact that some women have to work, but she doesn't seem to deal with the fact that some women want to work, and these are the villains.
Her take on male/female relationships is particularly disturbing. She basically states that your husband doesn't want to hear about your daily problems. All he wants is a clean house, cute wife and sex on demand. If only it were so simple. I just don't comprehend this concept. To me a strong loving marriage is all about communication, both deep and fickle and anyone who says differently is in my mind confused.
I like the idea behind the book. Housewives should be proud, they are doing one of the most importanst jobs in the world. There should be a revolution, I'm just not sure Darla Shine is the woman to lead it!
Her take on male/female relationships is particularly disturbing. She basically states that your husband doesn't want to hear about your daily problems. All he wants is a clean house, cute wife and sex on demand. If only it were so simple. I just don't comprehend this concept. To me a strong loving marriage is all about communication, both deep and fickle and anyone who says differently is in my mind confused.
I like the idea behind the book. Housewives should be proud, they are doing one of the most importanst jobs in the world. There should be a revolution, I'm just not sure Darla Shine is the woman to lead it!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As a stay at home mum, it was nice to read a book that championed my cause. However, it's rather extreme. Shine spends a lot of time telling us to quit complaining and get it together. After having read half of the book I found out that her husband works for Fox News so that put me off taking some of her advice. It's not the must-have for all housewives that I was hoping for. In her defence, she does give some tips about how to arrange your home but all in all a simplistic approach and aimed at rich, spoiled wives. Also, she spends time putting down the show 'Desperate Housewives' but it seems like she hasn't seen the show properly.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I did enjoy this book as i,like many other stay at home mums,was sick of being looked down on by people with "proper jobs". There were a few ideas i didnt quite gel with,such as letting your kids stay off school because they want to watch dvds!!!!. But on the whole a good book thats makes you feel proud to be doing the best job in the world.
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practice what you preach Mrs. Shine
This was a fairly enjoyable read with one or two useful tips, certainly the parts about accepting what you have and enjoying life for what it is, however, it was written from the... Read more
Published 18 months ago by ejb
I wish I could give this book more...
I'm not a parent however I work from home and thus often step into the 'housewife' role as I literally always at home. Read more
Published on 11 Aug 2008 by A. Dawud
BUY THIS BOOK!
I have read this book twice now and use it as a reference. I am so tired of hearing about desperate housewifes. Read more
Published on 10 Nov 2006 by Mrs. Dm Troughton
A great help and guide for SAHMs
This is a great book if you have found the transition from being a career girl to being a stay-at-home-mum a little bumpy or worse! Read more
Published on 17 May 2006 by lauraj
A Must-Read for all at home mum's!!
Just finished this book and it's fantastic!! I'm so sick of other people looking down on me or thinking that I've given up on my dreams by choosing to stay at home and raise my... Read more
Published on 16 April 2006 by A reader
Happy to be a SAHM!!!!
This book is fab. A real ispiration to the tired, the dowdy, the chaotic and the plain desperate housewives out there!
I have turned my home around.....you should too!
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Published on 1 April 2006
Traditional Woman with Modern Approach.
I haven't even read the book when I contacted Ms.Darla as soon as I saw her on one of her guest appearances on tv. Read more
Published on 27 Feb 2006 by Meta
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