May Contain Nuts

Alice never imagined that she would end up like this. Is she the only mother who feels so permanently panic-stricken at the terrors of the modern world – or is it normal to sit up in bed all night popping bubble wrap? She worries that too much gluten and dairy may be hindering her children's mental arithmetic. She frets that there are too many cars on the road to let them out of the 4x4. Finally she resolves to take control and tackle her biggest worry of all: her daughter is definitely not going to fail that crucial secondary school entrance exam. Because Alice has decided to take the test in her place…

Alice is one over-protective mom who tries to be everything that her kids need. She would do ANYTHING so that her kids can have bright futures. She is the  kinda parents that would squeeze every single minute out of their kids living daylights by sending them to all kinds of class that anyone could possibly offer, fencing, karate, taekwando, maths, piano, swimming, hockey, you name it they have it.

She is the kinda mom who stocks only organic food in the house. She buys all sorts of vitamins to enhance her kids mental ability. She dashes to her kid just in time to grab that packet of sweet cookie before it goes in her kid's tummy, just because, it "may contain nuts" and her kid "might be allergic to it", not because she knows it for sure, but because "it's better to be safe than sorry".

Sounds familiar?

Ach was the one who bought this book for me because he thought it might be comforting for me to know that I'm not alone. Or, he thought I would enjoy reading a book that pokes fun at ridiculously uptight moms like me.

Either way, he's right. This is actually a fun book to read. It gave me that much needed smack in the head. Macam, deeyyyy Ajan, chill la! But now that Kimi's all grown up aku takde la paranoid sangat I'm a much happier person.

The ending's a bit sucky tho, but I'd pass it as a good read.