Product Description: Thanks Mom, for...Playing a million hands of Old Maid.Checking under the bed for monsters.Teaching me to "look it up."It's the little things that count and so often our most cherished childhood memories are those things for which we can never thank our mothers enough...read more

A perfect reference book for anyone becoming a mother for the first time includes indispensable advice and tips from experienced mothers that will help to make the first experience as a parent an easier one.

Drawing on interviews with three hundred mothers and daughters, the author compiles not only a series of hearty family recipes handed down from generation to generation, but also the loving advice and stories that have accompanied them.

A charming illustrated keepsake contains bits of advice from more than fifty mothers across the country, from the profound to the playful, along with space in the back of the book for the giver to offer her own wisdom.