I have not read Amy Wilson’s book, “When Did I Get Like This?” but I do read Kelcey’s blog and she has read Amy Wilson’s book, so I sort of got the Cliff Notes version.

See how that works?

At any rate, I read Kelcey’s blog because she’s funny and she’s smart and she’s the kind of girl I’d like to grab a glass of wine with when I visit NY while we foist our kids on sitters.  Or parents, subbing as sitters.

A few days ago, she mentioned Ms. Wilson’s book and quoted the following passage:

“I realized that saying you’re sorry for having been a jerk is not really as powerful an example for your children as not having been a jerk in the first place.”

Ouch.  So true.

I am a perpetual work-in-progress on that front.

Thanks for the reminder, Kelcey and Amy.

How about you?  Have you read the book?  Did you like it?  Did it ring true for you?

I suppose you can all guess what I’ll be reading this summer…along with a few beach reads, of course!