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Every morning when Margot C. Pol pulls the gate of the day care centre shut, waves one more time and hurries to the train, she thinks the same thing: am I doing the right thing? But then: as a modern, working mother you bring your children to day care for three days, no matter how hard they cry sometimes. Until one day she decides to try what it's like to have all the time and attention for her children. She cancels her clients, deregisters her sons aged 1 and 3 and becomes a full-time stay-at-home mom for a year.

But she perseveres, hoping to understand her children better and find motherhood more fulfilling. But who are you without a job, and what happens to a relationship when you have to ask your husband for new shoes? Will it be a disaster year including schoolyard romances, day time drinking and a dissolving marriage? Or, in between the maddening boredom and leg-hugging, might there be a parenting revelation to be had?

The result is a painfully honest book about motherhood.