Women should stay home, raise their families, and take care of their homes. There, I just saved you from having to read this book. Darla tells women they should clean their homes but offers no suggestions on how, tells woman they should look cute without offering beauty tips, and tells women to do things that just aren't possible for most women. She talks a lot about redecorating, buying new outfits, going to the salon for beauty treatments, and hiring a baby sitter once a week to go to a nice restaurant with their hubby. Most two income families can't afford that life style let alone single income families! Really the entire book is just a big ego trip. It's also a big lie because the author is a working mom who writes, has her own radio show, and runs a online forum. She also has a housekeeper and gardeners to keep her house looking nice. Frankly if I'm going to read a book about how to be a happy housewife I expect it to be written by someone who is actually a housewife.

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This is a book about enjoying your life as a stay home mom. It has some good advice about taking pride in what you're doing. However, practically speaking, it isn't very relevant to most SAHMs that I know. Her husband makes a lot of money and most of her advice is only relevant and useful to to other women in the same position (example: go out and buy new clothes and makeup to make yourself feel good, you're a bad mom unless you feed your kids all organic food, etc.)

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This book is a waste of time. Do not read it unless you want someone who has an extremely wealthy husband to tell you all about how you should go shopping, buy makeup and nice clothes and look perfect for him when he walks in the door. That is not reality of the dynamics of a marriage. It's sad to regress from all women before us have done to pave the way for careers and equal pay in the workforce. A complete disappointment.

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Seriously one of the most condescending things I've ever read. As a former work-outside-the-home mom she pretty much made me feel like dirt even though I am now a housewife.

I have to believe the only reason this was published is because she and her husband work in media.

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This book is a train wreck. Perhaps Darla Shine is not a horrible person in real life, but she certainly portrays herself as a very judgmental lady in her writing. At one point she admitted that she wanted to push her shopping cart right into an overweight woman's "big fat ***" because she was angry that the woman was so unhealthy and teaching her overweight child to be unhealthy too. Wow. There are other gems in this book, too, about how we should basically use our husbands simply for money and sex and get emotional fulfillment from our friends, since apparently men aren't capable of holding a conversation or putting the toilet seat down. Some may enjoy her vapid, witchy banter. But this housewife prefers to stay positive.

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