Rebecca Eckler

Rebecca Eckler is a Canadian book publisher, former writer of columns and blogs about motherhood, and is author of two books, Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother-to-Be (2004), and Wiped! Life with a Pint-Sized Dictator, (2007). Since 2016, she has written five more books, the latest of which is The Mommy Mob: Inside the Outrageous World of Mommy Blogging (2014).^{[1] [2]}

Eckler was employed by the National Post from 2000 to 2005.^[3] She was among a number of staff whose jobs were terminated by the CanWest newspaper chain.^[4] From March–December 2006, Eckler wrote "Mommy Blogger", a weekly freelance piece in The Globe and Mail, appending to this set of blogs a departing blog in May 2007.^[5] Eckler wrote bloc post appearing periodically in the Canadian periodical Maclean's from 2008 to 2016.^{[6] [2]} Eckler's work also appeared in Mademoiselle .^[1]

Eckler became pregnant with her daughter, Rowan Joely, on the night of her engagement party and published the 2004 book Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother-to-Be about her first pregnancy.^{[citation needed ]} The book received negative reviews.^{[7] [8] [3]} In April 2007, Eckler published her second book, Wiped! Life with a Pint-Sized Dictator, which chronicles her first two years of motherhood. Quill & Quire said the book was a "series of tired clichés about parenthood."^{[8] [9]} Eckler published Blissfully Blended Bullshit with Dundurn Press in 2019, on managing life with a blended family.^{[8] [3] [2]}

Eckler's writing has elicited controversy. For instance, there was international coverage of the responses to her blogging about her decision to leave her 10-month old infant to join her fiancé for the duration of a celebrity golf tournament in Mexico.^[10] Responses to her book and blog content have frequently included assessments of writing from privilege, shallowness and immaturity, and self-justification of non-traditional decisions.^{[10] [11]}

Eckler's home was referenced in the April 2007 edition of Canadian House and Home.^[12] In 2007, Eckler participated in a charity auction for the magazine The Walrus , paying 7,000ドル for the right to have a character in Margaret Atwood's novel The Year of the Flood named after her.^[13]

• Eckler, Rebecca (2009年09月23日). "Margaret Atwood didn't kill me". Maclean's .
• Fenn, Anne (2011年02月15日). "If you can't tame 'em, emasculate 'em [Review of How to Raise a Boyfriend]". The Globe and Mail . Retrieved 2016年07月17日.
• Wolfe, Mitch (2014年04月27日). "Why Is This Writer Hated By So Many Mommy Bloggers?". The Huffington Post Canada . Retrieved 2016年07月17日.

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