Oceanside mom writes “Mom’s Cheat Sheet”

 It started as a blog, sharing tips on raising kids, recipes, and lessons learned about being a mom. Oceanside’s Lilly Cadoch admits, “Because let’s face it, as beautiful and meaningful as it is, raising kids is freakin’ hard!”

Over time, she boiled her life lessons to six major lessons to teach moms so they can teach their kids how to have a healthy body and a healthy mind.

The blog is now a book, “Busy Mom’s Cheat Sheet”. It includes lessons from healthy eating, exercise, and sleep to gratitude, positive thinking and meditation, and 45 recipes.

Cadoch has two school-aged boys, and works in New York City. After her workday she comes home, makes sure the kids are fed, bathed, their homework done and that they get to bed at a reasonable hour. Like most kids, they have some after school and weekend activities as well. She admits stay at home moms do not have it much easier, There are chores all day with the kids, community activities, and getting involved with schools, and still running around to take the kids to their activities.

Cadoch, who has a degree in psychology from University of California at Berkley and was amazed at the pressures children face today, and the effect those pressures have on them. But also the pressures mothers face rearing children in the modern world.

Cadoch took part in this summer’s gazebo readings at the Schoolhouse Green in Oceanside on Aug. 8.

She will be reading at the Oceanside Library on Sept. 14 at 7 p.m.