Mumming: A Year of Trying (and Failing) to Be a Better Parent

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A hilarious and painfully relatable memoir about a mum who sets out to revolutionise herself and her parenting one failed experiment at a time.

Victoria Vanstone thought shed be the kind of mum who would spend her days ironing names onto school shirts and who knew the best chocolate-chip cookie recipe off by heart. But as the years have ticked by, shes got the feeling that woman isnt going to show up. Instead, shes the kind of mum who shouts a lot and throws plastic cups at walls.

So Victoria decides to become the mum shes always wanted to be. She embarks on a year ofparentaldevelopment enrolling in a parenting course, implementing an exercise regime, awkwardly trying to make friends as an adult, and a holiday away from her family to reset the dials.

What follows is a year of trying, failing and trying again. But as Victoria stumbles from one misadventure to the next, she begins to realise that getting things wrong is actually where the fun begins.

Come for the laughs, stay for the reassurance:Mumming is a heartwarming celebration of the messy, wonderful,imperfectreality of raising kids and yourself.

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Victoria Vanstone is the host of Sober Awkward, a popular comedy podcast. Victoria became a renowned over-sharer on her blog drunkmummysobermummy.com. Originally from Reading in the UK, Victoria now lives on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland with her brood of uncontrollable children, a rather confused dog and a very patient husband. Sober Awkward won the best wellness podcast at the 2023 Australian Podcast Awards.