Cheers to the Diaper Years: 10 Truths for Thriving While Barely Surviving - Softcover

Hollis, Erin Brown

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1424557348 ISBN 13: 9781424557349

Publisher: Broadstreet Pub Group Llc, 2018

Synopsis

You’re the perfect parent for your child.

Many parents spend too much time striving for perfection or feeling pressure to do so. Constantly bombarded with the latest parenting trends, they endlessly research nutritional values, product safety ratings, socializing opportunities, and educational activities. While these actions are valuable, it’s all too easy to become overwhelmed and discouraged.
There’s no one-size-fits-all style of parenting. However, the Bible provides us with an encouraging framework for godly parenting. Cheers to the Diaper Years provides ten biblical truths that will help you:

• relinquish the idea of a perfect mom.
• rely on God and his guidance for raising children in a loving, Christian home.
• feel secure in knowing that God designed you to be the ideal mother for your child.
• focus on the true mission of a Christian parent: to guide your child to Christ.

Mothers do not need to succumb to unattainable or self-imposed parenting pressures. God’s satisfaction is the only stamp of approval required.

About this title

About the Author:

As a wife and mother to two young daughters, ERIN BROWN HOLLIS is acutely familiar with the pressures facing parents today. Her daughters fuel her passion to reach people with the message of the joy available in finding fulfillment in Christ alone. She and her family make their home just outside Birmingham, Alabama. Learn more about Erin and read her lifestyle blog at erinbrownhollis.com

Review:

''Laugh out loud, honest, and utterly relatable.''
- Reagan Croyle Phillips, childcare director of Big Oak Ranch

''This is the new go-to survival guide for thriving in this crazy, beautiful journey of motherhood. This book needs to be on every momma's bookshelf.''
-- Betsy Cooper, Briarwood Presbyterian Church

Cheers to the Diaper Years is a warm hug coupled with a healthy heaping of God's grace. It is the new, go-to survival guide for thriving in this crazy, beautiful journey of motherhood. This book needs to be on every momma's bookshelf smack dab between her Bible and What to Expect When You're Expecting.
- Betsy Cooper, head of Briarwood Presbyterian Church Mother's Day Out program, mother of two, and grandmother to nine

Cheers to the Diaper Years is like a refreshing gulp of sweet tea and a lingering hug for weary mamas everywhere. This delightful read is filled to the brim with biblical wisdom and humorous stories that ''perfect mom'' wannabes can relate to. Thank you, Erin, for changing my perspective on parenting from ''I-have-to-mom'' drudgery to ''I-get-to-mom'' delight.
-- Tracy Steel, mama of two ''spirited'' kiddos, author, speaker, and writer; tracymsteel.com

The infant and preschool years of parenting are physically and emotionally exhausting. Erin Hollis quickly earns readers' trust with humorous, relatable stories of her own surprises, disappointments, and failures along the journey of motherhood. But she does not join us there to wallow in a pity party! Erin makes you feel that you are chatting with a friend over coffee, as she shares how each of these moments is really an opportunity to better understand God's grace. Her timely truths remind moms of the importance of perspective, community, self-forgiveness, and unconditional love; qualities which can only be found through a growing relationship with Jesus.
- Brooke Gibson, minister to preschoolers, Dawson Family of Faith; speaker and writer for Group Publishing, Loveland, Colorado

Delightful, encouraging, and perfectly lovely! Erin Brown Hollis' Cheers to the Diaper Years brings with it a fresh glimpse of motherhood. Her wit and honesty address the not-so-glamorous side of mommy-life, celebrating it with a cup of truth and humor. The Southern charm laced throughout is contagious; mothers in all seasons of life will find themselves saying, ''Cheers to the diaper years!''
- Lauren H. Brandenburg, author of The Books of the Gardener, homeschool advocate, and mother to Kensi and Jack, LaurenHBrandenburg.com

Laugh out loud, honest, and utterly relatable. Erin Hollis has perfectly described in Cheers to the Diaper Years what all moms go through on a daily basis and how striving for perfection in a ''perfect Instagram world'' is not only unattainable but also not what God calls us to.
- Reagan Croyle Phillips, director of Big Oak Ranch Childcare

I so appreciate how Erin uses scripture to encourage and enlighten us in our motherhood journey. How beautiful it is to see God's design for motherhood explained throughout His Word in this book! Erin reminds moms that we are not perfect (and shouldn't expect perfection!), sometimes we need naps (amen!), and all of the hard, exhausting moments are worth it! Finding a mom tribe is necessary for your sanity, and this book teaches you how to find fellow moms who will understand you and walk alongside you to build you up when you are losing your sanity. So, log out of all your social media accounts (which are probably making you feel like a bad mom anyway) and read this book. It will have you laughing in agreement and encourage you to face each day with a renewed sense of hope.
-- Julie Sasse, mother of two, co-owner and co-founder of Birmingham Moms Blog

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadstreet Pub Group Llc
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1424557348
• ISBN 13: 9781424557349
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 211