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Per Diem Mom
Paperback
Publisher: Rockwrite Publishing
Published: Oct 9 2026
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
She loves her kids. She just prefers motherhood on a flexible schedule.
Meet the Per Diem Mom: part mother, part social-media parenting expert, and full-time believer that a shopping bag can solve almost anything.
She may not remember the school address. She might need Dad to remind her what size the kids wear. And when she says she's picking them up at 2:00, everybody knows better than to start watching the clock.
But when Mom finally arrives?
She comes bearing gifts, excuses, fourteen pictures for Facebook, and enough confidence to make you think she's been there the whole time.
Told through Mom, Dad, and the hilariously unimpressed kids who see through all of it, Per Diem Mom takes readers inside a family where one parent handles the everyday grind while the other has mastered the art of maximum motherhood with minimum attendance.
From the Annual Contribution Olympics and parenting from the sidelines to family group-chat roasts, broken promises, wrong-sized clothes, and the legendary phrase I carried you for nine months, nobody escapes the jokes.
But underneath the comedy is something the kids understand better than anybody:
Showing up matters more than showing off.
Funny, ridiculous, painfully familiar, and just serious enough when it needs to be, Per Diem Mom proves one thing:
Per Diem Parenting knows no gender.
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