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Ser madre, ¿es lo que quiero? Quizás te estás preguntando si deseas tener un bebé o si te vendría mejor una vida sin hijos. Si este es tu caso, Ser madre, ¿es para mí? es la herramienta perfecta para enfrentar esta decisión crucial en tu vida. Este libro te ofrece un camino claro hacia la comprensión de tu ambivalencia que te permitirá superarla y tomar la decisión informada de ser madre o de continuar con la vida que llevas hasta ahora.
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Secrets To Becoming The Very Best Parent You Can Be
Be there for your children every step of the way and give them memorable experiences.
What's the recipe for a happy family? It's collaboration and communication. Instilling a spirit of cooperation in your children is the real secret to providing the gift of a happy childhood, being a "good" parent, and building the family you have always wanted.
Perfect your parenting techniques. Research psychologists...
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An Empowering Book for Parenting Daughters with Self Worth
"200 short reflections on topics ranging from how parents can become good role models to talking about emotions."-Publisher's Weekly
As kids, girls often advance faster than boys, but fall behind by the time they are teens, victims of low self esteem and confusing standards of womanhood. 200 Ways to Raise a Girl's Self-Esteem is a guide to raising teenage daughters with straightforward advice...
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A Powerful Lesson on Unconditional Love and How to Raise Happy Children
This collection of essays offers a gentle guide on how to put your love into daily actions. A parent's calling is to raise a person. By making loving actions part of your life, you have the power to build the kind of family unit most people long for. Wonderful Ways to Love a Child is filled with true stories of parents and children who are nurturing strong and loving families....
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Elisabeth Badinter has for decades been in the vanguard of the European fight for women's equality. Now, in an explosive new book, she points her finger at a most unlikely force undermining the status of women: liberal motherhood, in thrall to all that is "natural." Attachment parenting, co-sleeping, baby-wearing, and especially breast-feeding-these hallmarks of contemporary motherhood have succeeded in tethering women to the home and family to an...
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In this timely and necessary book, New York Times opinion writer Jessica Grose dismantles two hundred years of unrealistic parenting expectations and empowers today's mothers to make choices that actually serve themselves, their children, and their communities
Close your eyes and picture the perfect mother. She is usually blonde and thin. Her roots are never showing, and she installed that gleaming kitchen backsplash herself (watch her TikTok for...
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You want to be a 'good' mother. You want to have confidence in your mothering skills and abilities. You wants to know you're doing the right thing, that your children will grow up to be happy, confident, with high self-esteem, and robustness of emotional resilience. The great news is that good enough really is good enough, and you don't need to be the perfect mother.
In this collection of interviews with a wide range of mums and experts, Sherry Bevan...
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Tantt furies, tantt sorcières, les mères monstrueuses continuent-elles à être considérées comme des êtres contre nature ou la description de ces femmes, de leurs actes et motivations présumées, a-t-elle changé au cours les siècles ?
De tout temps, la monstruosité des mères a suscité l'intérêt de la société. Déclenchant les débats éthiques, des déchaînements médiatiques, elle est aussi à l'origine d'un nombre impressionnant...
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"From an esteemed author known for battling gender norms and bringing down "man up" culture, comes this essential guide for men and those who love them. Miscarriage, infertility, and abortion are generally considered women's issues-and while they are far from uncommon in our society, open conversations surrounding those topics are exceedingly rare. They're seen as taboo, even distasteful. And that's just for women. When it comes to men and how they...
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Cara Meredith grew up in a colorless world. From childhood, she didn't think issues of race had anything to do with her. A colorblind rhetoric had been stamped across her education, world view, and Christian theology.
Then as an adult, Cara's life took on new, colorful hues. She realized that her generation, seeking to move beyond ancestral racism, had swung so far that they tried to act as if they didn't see race at all. But that picture neglected...
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(M)othering is a universally understood phenomenon that speaks to the act of becoming something unexpected and entirely outside ourselves. And this book is a collection of writing and art about that. 56 contributors illuminate the kind of gritty, body mind soul transformations that only the mothering myth can evoke. Their work will take you to wonder and wildness, kindness, beauty, grief, love.
These writers and artists show us what it means to...
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A Dropped Threads-style anthology, assembling original and inspiring works by some of Canada's best younger female writers - such as Heather Birrell, Saleema Nawaz, Susan Olding, Diana Fitzgerald Bryden, Carrie Snyder, and Alison Pick - The M Word asks everyday women and writers, some of whom are on the unconventional side of motherhood, to share their emotions and tales of maternity. Whether they are stepmothers or mothers who have experienced abortion,...
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The Well-Crafted Mom is a do-it-yourself guide for making a life you love. Kathleen Ann Harper blends been-in-your-shoes stories and inspirational craft projects with smart self-care solutions for moms. In The Well-Crafted Mom, Harper links simple craft projects to life coaching tools to give moms creative reminders of what they've learned in each chapter, like how to grapple with mommy guilt; ways to tell the difference between having a mess and...
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One message that comes along with ever-improving fertility treatments and increasing acceptance of single motherhood, older first-time mothers, and same-sex partnerships, is that almost any woman can and should become a mother. The media and many studies focus on infertile and involuntarily childless women who are seeking treatment. They characterize this group as anxious and willing to try anything, even elaborate and financially ruinous high-tech...
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How an ordinary family fell into the dark world of white supremacy, and how love ultimately triumphed over hate. As a troubled teen, Lauren Manning sought refuge online in the angry world of black metal music. When she met a recruiter who offered her the acceptance, she craved, the doctrine of white supremacy supplanted the values of her middle-class upbringing, and Lauren traded suburbia for a life of violence and criminality on the streets of Toronto....
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Women in today's advanced capitalist societies are encouraged to "lean in." The media and government champion women's empowerment. In a cultural climate where women can seemingly have it all, why do so many successful professional women-lawyers, financial managers, teachers, engineers, and others-give up their careers after having children and become stay-at-home mothers? How do they feel about their decision and what do their stories tell us about...
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Feminist icon Letty Cottin Pogrebin's second novel is the story of Zach Levy, the left-leaning son of Holocaust survivors who promises his mother on her deathbed that he will marry within the tribe and raise Jewish children. When he falls for Cleo Scott, an African American activist grappling with her own inherited trauma, he must reconcile his old vow to the family he loves with the present reality of the woman who may be his soul mate. A New York...
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Raised by a lively family of Spanish Jews in tropical and Catholic Panama of the 1950s and 1960s, Marlena depends on her many tíos and tías for refuge from the difficulties of life, including the frequent absences of her troubled mother. As a teenager, she pulls away from this centered world-crossing borders-and begins a life in the United States very different from the one she has known.
This lyrical coming-of-age memoir explores the intense and...
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"An epistolary essay about race, inheritance, and mothering at the end of the world"--
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