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  <title><![CDATA[Because I Said So]]></title>
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  <default_description>One of the most popular mommy-bloggers thanks to a humorous eBay listing about her child's baseball which was circulated rapidly until she became a household name, &lt;i&gt;Dawn Meehan&lt;/i&gt; offers readers a hilarious journey along with her six kids on madcap adventures, underscoring the notion that a sense of humor is an essential parenting skill.
&lt;i&gt;Because I Said So&lt;/i&gt; affirms that parents are not alone in the daily chaos, struggles and joys of child-rearing. With a huge dose of laugh-out-loud, real-life examples, Dawn shares hard-won wisdom gleaned from life with six children.
With refreshing honesty, she examines episodes from her everyday life and spins them in a humorous light, offering reassurance and guidance to overworked, overstressed parents. Her stories communicate that it's okay for kids to be kids.
Poignant and amusing, this is a refreshing and instructive look at the mistakes we all make in child-rearing and a hilarious testimony to parents who don't have it all figured out.    </default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2008</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Because I Said So</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Dawn Meehan]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Aug 20 13:22:06 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved this book!  Laughed my butt off reading this and nodding my head saying so true.  I'm biased though as I've been reading Dawns blog for mons now.  You can read it here <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mom2my6pack.blogspot.com/">http://mom2my6pack.blogspot.com/</a><br/><br/>One of the most popular mommy-bloggers thanks to a humorous eBay listing about her...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68227051">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun May 17 06:51:19 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book had me in hysterics!  As I was reading I could completely relate to her stories.  I don't have six kids and I can see how much harder it would be, but it made me feel good that it is not just me.  I can still be a good mom and yell at my children when I'm frustrated.  and yes my youngest i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56360187">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Apr 15 13:31:44 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The author is the only non-friend/family member's blog that I read. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mom2my6pack.blogspot.com/">http://mom2my6pack.blogspot.com/</a><br/>She's won lots of blogging awards and has a fun Erma Bombeck style.  So when she came out with a book, I wanted to read it.  <br/>It was fun, light, and entertaining.  One of those books that m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52805029">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very funny book by a mother of six who is also a blogger, AND who lives in the Chicago area, right near me! I love reading books by bloggers. Maybe someday I'll be one!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was pretty disappointing.  A lot of the material I had already read in her blog, and the rest wasn't all that funny.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read Dawn's blog daily and often laugh out loud at the escapades of her brood of 6. So I was anxiously looking forward to this book. I have to say, being halfway through it, I am disappointed. Her blog is much better. I will finish it-it is an easy quick read, but haven't laughed outloud once yet....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54176356">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[First-reads win.  I have yet to receive this book from the publisher.  Not sure what happened.  Perhaps my sketchy postal carrier delivered it to the wrong condo...Who knows...I hope whomever received it enjoyed it...]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 04 05:07:21 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I got a chance to meet and spend time with Dawn Meehan at several blogging functions and am very honored to be able to call her &quot;a dear friend!&quot;<br/><br/>Her book will be released next month and I will have a review available by the end of this month!]]></body>
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