Apparently This is What Parenting Feels Like

I’m pleased to have the opportunity to introduce myself to the LDS community of parents and share with you about a book I have written.

It’s about parenting—but not about how to parent, no. It is about being a parent and the experience of it over time. The book also explores the ‘parenting’ we all do of others, our relationship with our own parents, and our journey with them as they age. 

The title is Apparently This is what parenting feels like. The book presents a collection of stories, essays, quotes of dialogue, lists, poetry, and little vignettes within a timeline of parenting life, told from my thirty years of experiences as a mother of six children, all young adults now. The weird, joyous, boring, sickening, hilarious and beautiful of everyday parenting life are laid bare.

Beyond that, this book will be entertaining, funny, sad, and happy. I hope that my stories remind you of yours and how you feel and have felt. I want to provide accompaniment and encouragement to parents. Much of what a parent does is difficult, and we make it up as we go, all of us—experts and ordinary people alike.

As you read my stories of ‘ordinary life’ and my reflections upon them, I hope they highlight for you all that you, too, are similarly doing and feeling in your extraordinary role as a parent to your wonderous, unique, perplexing, cherished child. We’re all just doing our best. You don’t have to be perfect; you only have to keep doing your best to love your child well.

I hope my book sparks your interest. Its website is https://apparentlythebook.com.

Please consider signing up for my weekly newsletter, ‘Quick Quotes,’ from the book. I am still working hard to get Apparently published: as a newsletter subscriber, you would be the first to know when that happens!

Thank you for your consideration. I extend my very best wishes to each of you on your amazing parenting journey.

– Sue Dvorak, Author of Apparently This is what parenting feels like