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A Mom's Choice Awards Recipient!
Put Him in, Coach!: A Mother's All-Star Memoir is a recipient of the prestigious Mom's Choice Award. The Mom's Choice Awards honors excellence in family-friendly media, products and services. An esteemed panel of judges includes education, media and other experts as well as parents, children, librarians, performing artists, producers, medical and business professionals, authors, scientists and others. A sampling of the panel members includes: Dr. Twila C. Liggett, ten-time Emmy-winner, professor and founder of PBS's Reading Rainbow; Julie Aigner-Clark, Creator of Baby Einstein and The Safe Side Project; Jodee Blanco, New York Times best-selling Author; LeAnn Thieman, motivational speaker and coauthor of seven Chicken Soup For The Soul books; and Tara Paterson, Certified Parent Coach and founder of the Mom's Choice Awards. Parents and educators look for the Mom's Choice Awards seal in selecting quality materials and products for children and families.
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Anonymous
Posted September 26, 2007
A Fine Read
Martha Payne's Put Him In Coach is a fine read. Though a memoir, it has the pacing and dramatic tension of a novel. The reader feels the mother¿s pain every time son Sam strikes out, pops up, or, especially, gets bombed off the mound. With every incident where Sam fails to meet his mother¿s expectations, we rise and fall with him. We feel Martha Payne¿s maternal pain. Throughout the memoir she seems bent on painting herself as a bit of the bad mother because she so much to be the mother of an All-Star. Readers, I think, will applaud her tireless efforts to support her son and his teammates, and will probably overlook, or forgive, the couple of times when her zeal pushes her too far, and perhaps she is guilty of wanting her son to succeed to fulfill her wishes more than his. But to be fair, wanting one¿s son to succeed, even if it brings a mother or a father a large measure of pride, can hardly be looked at ad a grievous fault. We want our kids to be heroes. This book¿s not just for baseball moms, but for all of us out here trying to do the right thing for our kids, and maybe ourselves. Besides the fun of the reading this tale, there are lessons to be learned from Martha Payne¿s book. One can¿t ask for more.
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