Eat Your Peas, Daughter

Eat Your Peas, Daughter
A Little Wisdom and a Lasting Promise
By Cheryl Karpen
ISBN-13: 978-0971179486

Eat Your Peas Daughter is a very short text aimed to tug at the heartstrings and add strength to the mother/daughter relationship. The book is composed of a series of short sayings (1-2 sentences) on every other page of the book, resulting in a book that you can easily read in about 5 minutes. The sayings themselves are more reminiscent of modern day tweets, which would not be a bad use of the books contents.

It's easy to see when a mother may want to give this book to her daughter: graduation, going off to college, moving away, moving to get that first job in the real world. My issue with the book is where those books typically end up. If you're like me you've probably received a few books like these at graduations yourself. But where are these books now, and how often do you read them. I suspect that it gets read once if at all, and then spends the rest of it's life on a shelf collecting dust until it's finally given a local used bookstore, Goodwill, etc.

At a cover price of $9.95, your not exactly getting a bang for your buck for a 72-page book that primarily writes on every other page. Though you may be able to derive that value from a sentimental standpoint in your mother/daughter relationship, you should just know what your getting before purchasing it.