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"This is the book parents have been waiting for"—Michael Thompson, coauthor of Raising Cain. The book that is "helpful, hopeful, and engaging"—Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D., Columbia University. It is the book that addresses the new reality for parents of kids in their 20s and the issues that everyone in the media is talking about: When will this new generation of 20-somethings leave home, find love, start a career, settle
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"A bracing, hilarious manifesto for motherhood as it ought to be: spontaneous, loving, and just a little bit selfishPre-chewing toddler food. Flash cards for two-year-olds. Endless hours of school gatherings to sit through in smiling silence. How did motherhood--which even under the best circumstances comes with a million small costs and compromises--become a venue for female martyrdom, verging on a sort of socially approved mass masochism? How did...
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A practical handbook for modern moms outlines recommendations for avoiding impossible standards of perfection, sharing real-world suggestions for breaking burnout cycles and protecting children from the damage of overwhelmed-parenting dynamics. Over the last nineteen years working with families and children, Dr. Z has devised a prescriptive program for addressing "mommy burnout"-teaching moms that they can learn to re-energize themselves and still...
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Today's culture offers broadening opportunities for women; yet it still pressures them to fit long-standing stereotypes. McMinn challenges parents, teachers, churches, and civic communities to create a social environment that nurtures strong, confident girls. Combining careful research with personal experience, McMinn takes a thoughtful look at gender differences and patterns limiting women's full participation in society. She discusses what it means...
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Born in the town of Sangre Grande, Trinidad, Johnny Coomansingh has authored the books: "Sweet and Sour Trinidad and Tobago," "Show Me Equality," and "Seven Years on Adventist Street." Emerging from a colonial past, he explores and writes about the rich culture of the country. As a cultural geographer, he has found that Trinidad and Tobago provides fertile ground for a writer; a literal cornucopia of stories, folktales, histories, musical genres,...
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Estás embarazada o quizá tienes ya un bebé entre tus brazos. A lo mejor sólo te estás planteando el tema de la maternidad. Sea como sea, estás hecha un lío, tienes mil preguntas y nadie a quien recurrir. Escoges un libro, luego otro, luego otro más... Tu perplejidad va en aumento: ¿cómo puede ser que coexistan enfoques tan diferentes? ¿Por qué los expertos se contradicen de tal modo? ¿Por qué te hacen sentir tan impotente y por qué,...
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From stay-at-home dads to the "mommy wars", Daddy On Board looks at just how far we have come from the late sixties and which parenting role issues still linger in the twenty-first century. Sharing personal insights and anecdotes from interviews with parents and professional counselors, Dottie Lamm, a mother and grandmother, offers a fascinating study of modern couples and the societal pressures the continue to face. Upbeat and insightful, Daddy On...
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More than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up loud and clear for a generation of young women, nine of the original contributors are back-along with sixteen captivating new voices-sharing their ruminations from an older, stronger, and wiser perspective about love, sex, work, family, independence, body image, health, and aging: the critical flash points of women's lives today
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“Our Black Sons Matter” is a powerful collection of original essays, letters, and poems that addresses both the deep joys and the very real challenges of raising black boys today. From Trayvon Martin to Tamir Rice, the list of young black men who have suffered racial violence continues to grow. Young black people also deal with profound stereotypes and structural barriers. And yet, young black men are often paradoxically revered as icons of cultural...
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American Fatherhood: A Cultural History traces changes in what it means to be a dad in America, from the 1960s through today. The book begins with an overview of fatherhood in America from the "founding fathers" through the 1950s and progresses to the role of fathers as they were encouraged to move beyond being simply providers to becoming more engaged parents, navigating complex and changing gender and family expectations.
By tracing the story of...
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This quick-read handbook focuses on LGBTQ equality by providing instructions for parents to teach kids how to treat members of the LGBTQ community with kindness and respect. You'll find step-by-step guidance for: - Subtly learning your child's true opinion of LGBTQ equality- Responding to common LGBTQ questions- Explaining when and how to be an ally- Selecting family media that supports respect for the LGBTQ community- Learning how to teach morals...
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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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Including a foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Opening Up is a chronicle of the struggles and triumphs of families suffering the internalized stresses from poverty, domestic abuse, racism, and neighborhood violence, among other challenges. Through Parenting Journey, these families resolve harmful habits and identify their strengths to raise their children in a healthier environment.
Anne Peretz tells the story of this bold organization and flagship...
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Jennifer Rosner's revelatory memoir explores family, silence, and what it means to be heard. When her daughters are born deaf, Rosner is stunned. Then she discovers a hidden history of deafness in her family, going back generations to the Jewish enclaves of Eastern Europe. Traveling back in time, she imagines her silent relatives, who showed surprising creativity in dealing with a world that preferred to ignore them. Rosner shares her journey into...
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"A Fatherly Top Ten Best Parenting Book of the Decade" "A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Matthias Doepke is professor of economics at Northwestern University. He lives in Evanston, Illinois. Fabrizio Zilibotti is the Tuntex Professor of International and Development Economics at Yale University. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
An international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic inequality
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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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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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Most people over 50 are grandparents, but few have preparation for this significant role. In Being Grandma and Grandpa, sociologist Emily Stier Adler and psychologist Michele Hoffnung draw on their professional knowledge, their own experiences as involved grandparents of 10 grandchildren between them, and interviews with more than two hundred active grandmothers and grandfathers, to describe contemporary grandparenthood and offer advice. The authors...
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