About the book: 2016 / Collection of ironic stories by Nadya Papudoglo - the most “parental” and, perhaps, the most useful book in the catalog of the publishing house “CompassGid”. How else can a young mother know that she can sing any song to her baby with any level of skill - even Yegor Letov, who is completely deaf? Or how to explain to a child why grasping hot objects is dangerous without simultaneously instilling fear of a woman and a policeman? What does a child need more – a pacifier or a dudu? Why, in the end, is it so difficult to be a mother - and what should you do to make it easier? Of course, this is not “another reference book”: there is a great deal of information about how to properly raise and raise a child, as well as conflicting recommendations around. Nadya sincerely and directly describes her experience of pregnancy, childbirth, and communication with a child in the first year of life. She does not try to advise or indicate anything, but in a reportage manner records and soberly analyzes what is happening to her, seasoning the facts with a generous portion of irony. Irony saves the book from the slightest edification (which is the fault of reference books on motherhood) and from snobbery (inherent in “mothers”) with experience"), and from instilling fear (which sometimes even best friends indulge in with pleasure). Sometimes every young mother wants to hear the three most important words: it is impossible to be perfect. The book “#youmama.” Motherhood with or without rules is valuable precisely because it affirms from page to page the right to remain oneself, without wasting energy in the pursuit of imaginary perfection. Nadya Papudoglo has been regularly blogging for five years now, kokomyboy, which readers have come to love for its original style, unconventional thoughts and numerous valuable observations, including psychological ones. Both in the blog and in the book, the author laughs both at himself and at his stereotypes, openly admits his own weaknesses - of course, we all have them. This creates a feeling of exchange of opinions: and the reader, with her perhaps opposing views, is a full-fledged participant in the dialogue, to which Nadya invites.