"The Wilderness Years - a parents' survival guide" is a book that offers solace for mothers as they battle across the landscape of child-rearing. It is a voice of reason cut low across the incessant babble of how to's and don't do's that plays in the background of parenting. It gives credence to the first 5 years of motherhood and acknowledges the physical and emotional sacrifices all mothers make. "There are times when you will huddle under a blanket on the sofa furtively eating chocolate and praying for divine intervention. Or a natural disaster." Witty and inspirational, "The Wilderness Years" transcends parenting styles and techniques, socioeconomic groups and choice of pet. In a time where everything is about the children, it is a book for the parents, about parents, by a parent.