I really love staged photographs - where everyone is beautiful and smiling. The daughter is a gentle beauty, the son is a serious, smart boy. I am such an affectionate mother with kind eyes. And only I know what happens behind the scenes. How a gentle beauty can become stubborn and you can’t budge her. How my son will begin to try his hand at rhetoric, trying to drive me crazy with his ironic arguments. And I am a crazy-eyed, hectic mother who doesn't know how to raise children. This book is for mothers like me, as well as fathers and grandparents who don’t know what to do with their children.