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  • Momma Cusses

  • A Field Guide to Responsive Parenting & Trying Not to Be the Reason Your Kid Needs Therapy
  • By: Gwenna Laithland
  • Narrated by: Abbi Laithland, Gwenna Laithland
  • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (186 ratings)

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Momma Cusses

By: Gwenna Laithland
Narrated by: Abbi Laithland, Gwenna Laithland
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Publisher's summary

With the same authentic and snarky style that her millions of TikTok fans love, "parenting unexpert" Gwenna Laithland narrates her way through hilarious real-life parenting scenarios.

This program is read by the author, with a foreword read by her daughter.

Join the millions of fans who love Momma Cusses, TikTok’s #1 Parenting Unexpert!

There are lots of experts out there who will tell you they have the magic recipe to raising perfect humans. Gwenna Laithland is not one of them. She’s one of us. Frustrated, overwhelmed, and exhausted. Her relatable representation of parenthood validates our experiences. In Momma Cusses, Gwenna uses her signature style of snark and sarcasm to explain her interpretation of responsive parenting vs. reactive parenting and outline the steps she takes to raise her kids. Whether you are a parent or someone who has had a parent, we all need to learn how to handle our emotional spirals responsively.

Now we can all be in it together by tackling some of the hilarious yet all-too-real scenarios Gwenna outlines in her book, including:

YOU WILL LOSE YOUR SH*T:
Mom guilt vs. mom shame

ARE YOU YELLING OR ARE YOU JUST BEING LOUD?:
Get in control of your emotions

THE BIG FEELS LOOP-DE-LOO:
Get in control of their emotions

Accessible, digestible, and rooted in reality, Momma Cusses helps listeners with navigating family dynamics and cultivating emotional resilience for everyone.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press Essentials.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2024 Gwenna Laithland (P)2024 Macmillan Audio
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Relatable and true to who the author presents herself to be...

My husband and I do not currently have children of our own, but we are involved in the lives of our nieces and nephews. I have followed Gwenna on social media for years and was long awaiting this book release to help me to heal from my own reactive states due to being raised by reactive and often abusive parents.

This book has brought another piece of healing into my "parenting" style as well as broken down many ways to regulate both myself as well as the children who I am a part of influencing their growth into fully formed human beings. I will always be grateful for all the forms of media that "MommaCusses" chooses to put out to help people like me, but this one is probably the most influencial one yet for me in particular.

Healing and choosing to be responsive/gentle to children rather than reactive when that is all that has ever been modelled within my presence is one of the hardest things I have ever chosen to do. I am so greatly appreciative that this book has come out before I have "my first pancake" to help me learn prior to passing those same traumas onto my own children.

I very highly recommend this for anyone interested in healing their own reactive states, and becoming more responsive towards others in your life, even if you never plan to have children, but especially if you are in an influencial role (ie. parent, aunt, uncle, grandparent, ECT.) within a child's life and have no good role models to look back on for reference.

Gwenna herself has said many times, even in the first few chapters of this book, that it is never going to be too late to change your parenting style and heal from the hurt, it takes time and effort but is so worth doing. This is one small step in the right direction of bettering the influence you are within a child's life-but so worth the time and effort it takes to read and apply any and all concepts to your life as necessary and beneficial for your own family.

Thank you, Gwenna, for a wonderful book filled with relatable anecdotal references to the struggles of being reactive and raised by a reactive parent. This is a book I am going to read multiple times over, and annotate thoroughly as I break-down all of my own personal experiences and how to best apply each of the learned concepts throughout this novel.

💙Dez Sanderson

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I will Re listen. Loved!

There’s really nothing I dislike about this book. Please be aware she cusses, hints her name. It’s not a lot but she does drop the “$4 words” and I would roll my eyes so hard if I read a comment that said something to the effect of “didn’t like because she swears” or “too much cussing, so unnecessary”. 🙄If you’re faint of heart and would fall over at the sound of the F word, don’t read it. Leave it for the rest of us trying to support a real mom

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Great book for understanding kids AND adults

I don’t have kids yet, but I teach middle and high schoolers math and I find this book really helpful tool. Great for reparenting myself as well)

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impressively thought provoking and hilarious

not only does she give you outstanding, useful information you can literally start using right away, but she hands it to you on a silver platter of witty, charming, relatable, HILARIOUS experiences. absolutely impressed. I've read quite a few parenting books trying to get a hankering on this so called parenting lifestyle I'm trying to figure out still and not knowing how to explain what I'm trying for (my oldest is 21 and youngest 6) and this book hit the nail right on the head for every single aspect I was searching for. I can not thank you enough for writing this. and I'm so happy I found it! I will be listening to it a few times over!

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Raw truths

You will question yourself, feel proud, feel guilty and you will bust a gut laughing. One of the best - if not THE BEST - parenting books!

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Excellent

If you like Gwenna’s videos or her podcast this will fall just in line with that. She reads the book herself which is really nice to get the information from a familiar source. There have been other parenting books that I have tried to read and stopped because it was just causing more anxiety this book feels for me was a much more approachable book with suggestions and explanations of concepts. I expect that I will probably listen to this a couple times if nothing else for when I need it drilled into my head that I am a good parent. I would recommend this book to any parent.

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Peanut Butter and Jelly

Despite that the author does not make a PB&J the correct way (no judgment, PB on both sides of the bread jelly in the middle, just saying) and may end up starting an internet war as a result, this is a fabulous and totally relatable resource. I can’t tell you how many nuggets of gold I carried away to help me in the throws of temper tantrums or how many times I found myself nodding along and chatting with the author every step of the way. I know I am better for it. You won’t regret picking this book up at any point during your parenting journey.

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Never read a Parenting book

Okayy so I haven’t ever read a parenting book but I always felt like there was a better way to parent my littles I have 4 and I want to be there confident at the end of the day, and never since I have followed Gwenna in 2021. I have learned from her, and when I found out she was writing a book I knew I had to get it and she did not disappoint she helped me get the confidence to know that I am doing a good job. Thank you Gwenna❤️

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Authenticity

I love how honest Gwenna is! she is so real and honest. this book has helped me so much. as a parent

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I AM NOT A BAD MOM

Parenting is HARD - Gwena made me so happy dances when I was validated and made me look inward for what I can do better. I waited for this one to come out and I’m SO glad it did 😍😍

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