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"GoodHousekeeping.com&amp;#039;s very own Jen Singer, author of our Tale of Two Tweens blog, has published a new book. You&amp;#039;re a Good Mom (and Your Kids Aren&amp;#039;t So Bad Either) is for every mom who&amp;#039;s pressured to be perfect. Filled with &amp;quot;that happened to me, too!&amp;quot; stories, the book offers giggles and a pat on the back for today&amp;#039;s moms, whether they&amp;#039;re deep in diapers or petrified by puberty. Below is one of our favorite parts from the book. Read the excerpt and if you like what you see, you can purchase the book at BN.com.  The Search for Parenting Information, Then and Now   Then Find a rash on the baby.  Ask your mother for her opinion on it.  Take the baby to her pediatrician, who says it&amp;#039;s heat rash and prescribes an ointment to treat it.  Rash goes away.   Now Find a rash on the baby.  Ask your mother for her opinion on it.  Google &amp;quot;rash.&amp;quot;  Visit a medical web site that outlines numerous rashes along with some rather disgusting accompanying photos.  Worry that it could be either eczema, heat rash or granuloma annulare, which \u2014 oh my God! \u2014 may be associated with diabetes or thyroid disease.  Google &amp;quot;thyroid disease.&amp;quot;  Discover that hypothyroidism in children can decrease their growth rate and cause lethargy.   Panic, because the baby was &amp;quot;only&amp;quot; in the 75th percentile for height at her last check-up, but in the 80th percentile at the check-up before.  Wonder if she&amp;#039;s been napping too much lately.  E-mail your mother to ask her if anyone in the family had thyroid problems and to ask how long the baby napped today at her house.  Spend half-an-hour reading heart-wrenching thyroid message boards.  Mom e-mails back to report that Aunt Mary had hypothyroidism when she was eighty-two, and the baby napped three hours!  Visit a web site where people who represent themselves with cartoon drawings and nicknames like &amp;quot;Petunia89&amp;quot; all agree that it&amp;#039;s genetic (except one guy with no cartoon who calls himself &amp;quot;Yoda69,&amp;quot; and really, who can trust him?)  Spend hours frantically researching thyroid problems and diabetes.  Take the baby to her pediatrician, who says it&amp;#039;s heat rash and prescribes an ointment to treat it.  Rash goes away.   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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