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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Rockabye: From Wild to Childby: Rebecca Woolf  List Price: $15.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.85 You Save: $5.10 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 306.8743092 EAN: 9781580052320 ISBN: 1580052320 Label: Seal Press Manufacturer: Seal Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: April 01, 2008 Publisher: Seal Press Studio: Seal Press Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Rockabye is the lively memoir of a spontaneous young city-girl who becomes unexpectedly pregnant. That city-girl is Rebecca Woolf, who at 23, after the "holy shit, I'm pregnant" realization, decides to keep the baby, marry the boyfriend (in Vegas no less), and figure out how to wed her rock n' roll lifestyle and impending motherhood. With humor, honesty, and renegade insight, Rebecca makes the transition from life as an odd-job doing commitment-phobic, chain-smoking, irresponsible party-girl to life as a work-at-home mother with a different kind of social life. Throughout, Rebecca doesn't relinquish the token qualities of her free-spirited, pre-baby self; rebelling against both the "soccer mom," and "young mother" stereotypes, challenging herself to grow up without outgrowing her dreams, and most importantly embracing motherhood without a map. Rockabye explores the coming together of mother and son and their mutual coming of age. How does Rebecca adapt to motherhood? By acting on instinct and maintaining a strong sense of self, breaking rules (sometimes her own) in the process and building her own adventures out of legos and alphabet blocks. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - MehI wanted to like this book. Her blog is OK. A bit sappy for my taste. But as a fellow wild child turned mom I keep coming back, hopeful, but some how never fully satisfied. That is how I felt reading the book. Wild child? Really? I don't see it. Doing it her own way? By what? Refusing to listen to anyone, or read a book or parenting magazine? Please. The writing is mediocre and full of its self. Not funny. Not original. It's sentimental drivel for the stroller brigade. A point that is driven ... Read More Rating: - Authentic and RawI hadn't read Rebecca Woolf's blog before I read this book. I immediately sought out more, more after wiping the tears from my eyes. Rebecca's eloquence inspires me so much. I haven't been this turned inside out by a memoir since Anne Lamott's Operating Instructions. Rating: - Not Your Ordinary Parenting MemoirGirl's Gone Child, written by Rebecca Woolf, was one of the first blogs I ever read on a regular basis. In some ways -- OK, LOTS of ways -- my life couldn't be more different than Rebecca's, but I connected with her writing instantly. It didn't matter that she was a 20-something and I was a 40-something. It didn't matter that she had been a "wild child" and I never was (though I always wanted to be!). Her stories about her motherhood and life experiences resonated with something ... Read More Rating: - too short!I read this book in one sitting, and my only complaint is that it wasn't longer! I stumbled across Rebecca's blog a few months ago - I'm hooked! Wonderful style and heart! She is very honest with the changes in her life and emotional world. Loved it! Rating: - Coulnd't put it downI have been reading the authors blog for a few years now. I was very excited to finally read her book. It was a real journey. You are taken to highs and lows and lots of laughs along the way. I read this book in a matter of hours. I highly recommend this book. Especially to newer moms. She tells it like it is. 
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