Savvy Mother’s Day Gifts

Books, Music, Magazines

O, The Oprah Magazine

$19.97 | O, The Oprah Magazine >>

Remind mom how much you love her throughout the year by giving her a subscription to O, The Oprah Magazine.

Launched in April of 2000, O, The Oprah Magazine has quickly become one of the most widely read women’s general interest magazines.

It offers empowering ideas stamped with Oprah’s unique vision on everything from health and fitness, careers and relationships to beauty, fashion, home design, books and food.

12 issues.

Chicken Soup for the Mother & Daughter Soul

$9.71 | Amazon.com

By: Jack Canfield

Chicken Soup for the Mother & Daugher Soul explores the profound relationship between a mother and daughter.

Chicken Soup of the Mothers Soul - Mothers Day.jpgFor new moms in awe of their daughter’s first step, to veteran moms in a panic as their daughter leaves for her first prom, each will be touched by heartwarming stories that share the life-defining moments of the mother/daughter relationship.

Celebrity contributions include stories by Jacquelyn Mitchard and Joan Borysenko. Chapters include A Mother’s Love; A Daughter’s Love; Memories; Challenges; Lessons; Like Mother, Like Daughter; Loss and Healing and Timeless Wisdom.

A bit on the sappy side, it is pleasantly uplifting overall.

This is the perfect book gift from a daughter to her mother on Mother’s Day.

Paperback . 352 pages . Amazon customer review: 5 stars

Mommy Knows Worst

$11.70 | Amazon.com

By: James Lileks

Ahhhh, the 1940s and ’50s . . . a time when parents everywhere strove for the mdg-mommy-knows-worst.jpgAmerican Dream—manicured lawns, a shiny car in the driveway, and perfect children playing in the yard. Raising kids was simpler back then, or was it?

In Mommy Knows Worst,  you’ll be treated to a visual feast of past parenting neuroses—as well as insight into why concerned moms and dads were driven to buy “delicious” baby laxatives, douse their baby in oil and put him in the sun, and strap Junior into a car seat that bore a strange resemblance to scrap metal.

Photographs, advertisements, magazine articles, and government-issue parenting guides, which seemed so helpful in their day, are given a whole new slant. 

Live Your Best Life by O the Oprah Magazine

18.87 | Amazon.com

By: O the Oprah Magazine

Live Your Best Life: A Treasury of Wisdom, Wit, Advice, Interviews, and Inspiration from O, The Oprah Magazine

Oprah Book-Mothers Day.jpgFor any mom eager to answer Oprah’s call to “live your best life,” here is the ultimate, all-around self-discovery book.

The Oprah Magazine pulls together over 100 of the most empowering, and entertaining articles from the magazine’s last two years.

Filled with advice from experts like Dr. Phil, Suze Orman, and Oprah herself, the book is divided into three sections.

“Your Personal Best” focuses on emotional and physical well-being. “Relationships” has the tools and insights everyone needs to form warmer, more satisfying connections. And, in true Oprah style, “Living in the World” helps the reader think about how to make her life more meaningful and useful.

This rich, collectible volume is a resource that readers will keep returning to for answers and inspiration.

Hardcover . 336 pages . Avg. Amazon customer review: 4 stars