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Author: René Syler Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416955291 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 294
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Syler explains how she learned to chuck perfection for practicality, offering sage advice and tips on navigating different obstacles while offering real wisdom about mothering that is tempered with humor and warmth.
Author: René Syler Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416955291 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 294
Book Description
Syler explains how she learned to chuck perfection for practicality, offering sage advice and tips on navigating different obstacles while offering real wisdom about mothering that is tempered with humor and warmth.
Author: Bev Thomas Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571348408 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 346
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The most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves... 'Excellent . . . A gripping debut.' Sunday Times 'Taut, absorbing and psychologically astute.' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train Dr Ruth Hartland is the director of a highly respected trauma therapy unit. She is confident, capable and excellent at her job. But she is finding it hard to maintain. Increasingly preoccupied by her son Tom's disappearance, Ruth is shaken when a new patient arrives at the unit - a young man who looks shockingly like him. As a therapist, she knows exactly what she should do. But as a mother she makes a very different choice - a decision that will have profound consequences. What readers are saying: 'The psychological pull of this novel was so intense, I flew through it in no time at all.' 'A heart-stopping mother's story of love and loss, and a riveting drama that lets us inside the secret world of therapist and patient.' 'A beautifully crafted book with a compelling and emotionally consuming narrative.' 'Brilliantly compassionate and satisfying read. Good to the last page.'
Author: Sharon Lamb Publisher: Beacon Press ISBN: 0807082473 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 202
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A psychologist who evaluates the fitness of parents when their children have been removed from their custody finds herself reassessing her own mothering when her son falls victim to the opioid crisis. Psychologist and expert witness Dr. Sharon Lamb evaluates parents, particularly in high-stakes cases concerning the termination of parental rights. The conclusions she reaches can mean that some children are returned home from foster homes. Others are freed for adoption. Well-trained, Lamb generally can decide what’s in the best interests of the child. But when her son’s struggle with opioid addiction comes to light, she starts to doubt her right to make judgments about other mothers. As an expert, a professor, and a mother, Lamb gives voice to the near impossible standards demanded by a society prone to blame mothers when anything befalls their children. She describes vividly the plight of individual parents, mothers in particular, struggling with addiction and mental illness and trying to make stable homes for their kids amid the economic and emotional turmoil of their lives—all in the context of the opioid epidemic that has ravaged her home state of Vermont. In her office, during visits with their children, and in the family court, the parents we meet wait anxiously for Lamb’s verdict: Have they turned their lives around under child welfare’s watchful eye? Do they understand their children’s needs? In short, are they good enough? But what is good enough? Lamb turns that question on herself in the midst of her gradual realization of her son’s opioid addiction. Amazed at her own denial, feeling powerless to help him, Lamb confronts the heartache she can bring into the lives of others and her power to tear families apart.
Author: Karyl McBride Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416551328 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 275
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A resource for daughters of mothers with narcissistic personality disorder explains how to manage feelings of inadequacy and abandonment in the face of inappropriate maternal expectations and conditional love, in a step-by-step guide that shares recommendations for creating a personalized program for self-protection and recovery. 50,000 first printing.
Author: Donald Woods Winnicott Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780415036894 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 192
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Winnicott is concerned with the springs of imaginative living and of cultural experience in every sense, with whatever determines an individual's capacity to live creatively and to find life worth living.
Author: Avital Norman Nathman Publisher: Seal Press ISBN: 1580055036 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 224
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In an era of mommy blogs, Pinterest, and Facebook, The Good Mother Myth dismantles the social media–fed notion of what it means to be a “good mother.” This collection of essays takes a realistic look at motherhood and provides a platform for real voices and raw stories, each adding to the narrative of motherhood we don’t tend to see in the headlines or on the news. From tales of mind-bending, panic-inducing overwhelm to a reflection on using weed instead of wine to deal with the terrible twos, the honesty of the essays creates a community of mothers who refuse to feel like they’re in competition with others, or with the notion of the ideal mom—they’re just trying to find a way to make it work. With a foreword by Christy Turlington Burns and a contributor list that includes Jessica Valenti, Sharon Lerner, Soraya Chemaly, Amber Dusick, and many more, this remarkable collection seeks to debunk the myth and offer honest perspectives on what it means to be a mother.
Author: JM López Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1800732538 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 210
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Motherhood in Mexico is profoundly shaped by the legacy of colonialism. This ethnography situates motherhood in a critical global health analysis of maternal health inequalities and interventions in the southeast state of Chiapas. Using a transitional life course framework, it demonstrates how the transition to motherhood is never complete. Once a good mother is defined, she becomes undefined, the goal posts moved, and the rules confronted.
Author: Becky Beaupre Gillespie Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 1459201655 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 288
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In this updated 10th anniversary edition of Gillespie and Temple’s groundbreaking research, Good Enough Is the New Perfect shows that modern mothers really can have it all. The pressure on women is real. We dominate in our jobs while simultaneously juggling the needs of our families and our homes. But what about our own needs? With so many balls in the air, finding balance is harder than ever. The truth is that you can have it all. The secret is creating an “all” that you love. Through their extensive research, Becky Beaupre Gillespie and Hollee Schwartz Temple have discovered a paradigm shift in motherhood: more and more mothers are losing their “never enough” attitude and embracing a “good enough” mindset to be happier, more confident and more fulfilled. With inspiring firsthand accounts from working mothers, Good Enough Is the New Perfect is a true roadmap for the incredible balancing act we call motherhood and getting what you really want out of your career, your family and your life. “Most moms I know don’t even want it all. We just want less stress and enough time. But how can we achieve it? [Good Enough Is the New Perfect] sheds light on this question.” —The Washington Post
Author: Melinda M. Marshall Publisher: Petersons ISBN: 9781560794332 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 343
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Working women are looking for information on how they can do their best as professionals and still be good mothers. Backed by commentary from sociologists, economists, noted authors, and other experts, this compelling book tells the personal stories of working mothers who have achieved this delicate balance.
Author: Bruno Bettelheim Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0394757769 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 404
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In this book, the preeminent child psychologist of our time gives us the results of his lifelong effort to determine what is most crucial in successful child-rearing. His purpose is not to give parents preset rules for raising their children, but rather to show them how to develop their own insights so that they will understand their own and their children's behavior in different situations and how to cope with it. Above all, he warns, parents must not indulge their impulse to try to create the child they would like to have, but should instead help each child fully develop into the person he or she would like to be.
Author: René Syler
Author: René Syler
Author: Bev Thomas
Author: Sharon Lamb
Author: Karyl McBride
Author: Donald Woods Winnicott
Author: Avital Norman Nathman
Author: JM López
Author: Becky Beaupre Gillespie
Author: Melinda M. Marshall
Author: Bruno Bettelheim