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Very Disappointed I read all the hype about this book and couldn't wait to read it. Once I got home with it, I had a hard time making myself read the book, which is not well written. Warner does make some good but very familiar points about how many activities children are doing. But I kept finding myself unable to sympathize with a mother who lives in a posh area in D.C. and sends her children to private school and somehow is blaming society and everyone else for what seemed like her own neuroses. I live close to Warner and few of the mothers she writes about as if they were the norm actually exist. And everybody knows those mothers have some issues, largely of their own making, although helped along by a pervasive culture of consumerism and competition. I kept thinking that if only Warner had read "How To Avoid The Mommy Trap," "Perfect Madness" would not have existed because she would have found some better answers for herself and for others (even those who like the book concede that Warner is short on answers apart from moving back to Paris, a luxury few of us ever achieve). Don't waste your money on this one. I wish I hadn't.