Almost every mother one day begins to doubt that she is doing everything - or at least something - right. Stupid and smart, educated and not so educated, adults and young are tormented by the same questions. Am I a bad mother? How to raise a child happy? How to become happy yourself? According to Ekaterina Krongauz, her book is an attempt to stop sitting in the kitchen in the evening and looking at one point when everything is in order, to reduce the cost of our own mistakes, to understand why these questions arise, whether the answers to them are so important and whether we have the right answers at all are looking for. Ekaterina Krongauz was born in 1984. She began writing reports for the Stolitsa magazine at the age of 13. She worked in the magazines “Afisha” and “Big City”. She wrote columns about children on the website Snob.ru and opened a school for babysitters. He currently works for the online publication Meduza. “Am I a bad mother?” her first book.