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How to be an Italian Mother

Table of Contents


Chapter 1      The Classic Italian Mother   Who’s Who & What’s What 

Chapter 2      Stuck In This Damn House   The Italian Mother in her Natural Habitat

Chapter 3       Don’t Make Me Get that SPOON!   Italian Child Rearing Practices

Chapter 4       MY SON & my daughter  “I love them ALL just the same!”

Chapter 5       Sex, Marriage and the Italian Mother  “That’sa No Nice”

Chapter 6       Fun, Fun, Fun! When Mama lets down her hair!

Chapter 7       The World According to Ma Italian-American Etiquette

Chapter 8       God Only Knows  The Spiritual Life of an Italian Mother

Chapter 9       MANGIA!  Holidays, Recipes and Family Food Fights

Chapter 10     Mamma Mia University The Education of a Lifetime

how to be an italian mother

coming soon!

How to be an Italian Mother, still in

the works, promises to be an hilarious, irreverent and absolutely truthful book about what it’s like to be (and have an Italian mother).


In the writing of it, I’ve been drawing from my own experiences as well as those culled from my huge cross-section of family and friends (none Mob-related) who can’t shut up about their mothers, for better or for worse.


I firmly believe that if you stop ANY Italian-American and ask them to tell you a story about their mother, I guarantee you’ll be surprised, even horrified BUT never bored. That’s because Italian mothers are warm and cold, stoic and dramatic, depressed and hell-bent, funny and tragic. And they love to read about themselves.


Every Italian-American mother will want to have this book. 


And every Italian-American offspring will have to buy it for them.

Italian-American mothers, herein referred to as Italian mothers, are indeed a unique breed. Steeped in old ways but living in the American culture, they straddle both traditions, sometimes leaning one way and sometimes the other. But one thing is for sure, they are no June Cleavers or Donna Reeds, dressed in a lovely shirtwaist dress, pearls and pumps as they make fluffernutter sandwich snacks for the kiddies before they scamper off to bed in their jammies with a pat on the head.

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Italian moms wear whatever’s comfortable, feed their kids pepper and egg sandwiches then grab them and kiss them loud and juicy on the cheeks before flinging them onto their beds and walking away with a warning, “Don’t make me come back IN here!”

Italian mothers have warm hands that feel for fevers, stroke your hair and stir the pot on the stove. They are very smart, whether educated or not, they know what’s right and wrong and how to save a buck while feeding a gaggle of kids.


They are almost always funny, even when they don’t mean to be. Most of them don’t take any guff, talk loudly and they love fiercely.

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