Motherhood category: 1477 books
One Mom To Another
Be Kind to Yourself, Embrace the Good, Find Joy in the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
For every mother who feels she is coming up short, Cynthia Anderson has a message: Be Kind to Yourself, Embrace the Good, and Find Joy in the Everyday. In One Mom to Another, Cynthia uses her decades of experience as a mother of seven (and as of this writing, a grandmother to twenty-three) to shed...
Mediated Maternity
Contemporary American Portrayals of Bad Mothers in Literature and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Mediated Maternity: Contemporary American Portrayals of Bad Mothers in Literature and Popular Culture, by Linda Seidel, explores the cultural construction of the bad mother in books, movies, and TV shows, arguing that these portrayals typically have the effect of cementing dominant assumptions about...
Prayers for the Battlefield
Staying MomStrong in the Fight for Your Family and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Help, hope, and spiritual strength for the mom in the trenches.
Moms today have a lot to handle! It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the responsibility of raising a family, especially in a culture that’s spiraling away from Christianity at an alarming speed. Yet our God is the same yesterday, today,...
The Making of a Mother
Overcoming the Nine Key Challenges--from Crib to Empty Nest
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
What makes a good mother? Are some women just born naturally maternal, or do mothers discover that part of themselves once they have a child? Now a renowned expert on the subject–and herself a mother of three–addresses the unspoken worries and fears that accompany motherhood and shares the reassuring...
If You Could See Me
Life, Motherhood, and the Pursuit of Sanity
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Life, Motherhood, and the Pursuit ofSanity is Erin Mahone’s first book inwhich she talks candidly about thechallenges of growing up in a familywhere mental illness was pervasiveand a sense of humor was anabsolute necessity! She addresseshow these formative experiences andrelationships impact the...
by Naomi Stadlen
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Instead of preaching what mothers ought to do, psychotherapist Naomi Stadlen explains what mothers already do in the course of any exhausting day's work. Drawing from countless conversations with hundreds of mothers spanning more than a decade, What Mothers Do provides lucid insight into the true...
Right Time Baby
The Complete Guide to Later Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
First you need an education, then a career. You might want to see a bit of the world and find yourself. You have to meet the right man (this is often the tricky part!). Before you know it, you're in your thirties and they're telling you to get a move on if you still want to procreate. Hang on a minute,...
by Jasmine Han, Shelly Holly
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2017
Most motherhood books tell you how to be the perfect mom and how to raise the perfect kid. This is not one of those books. This is a collection of light-hearted, true stories about the bizarre experience of pregnancy, attempting to avoid public tantrums, making it through the terrible twos (and ones,...
Mom Seeks God
Practicing Grace in the Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The first months and years of motherhood can be the most challenging and disorienting of your life—and faith. When you’re surrounded by the happy chaos of children, how do you spend quiet time with God if the only quiet time you get is while you sleep? How can you demonstrate a solid spiritual...
From Boardroom to Baby
A Roadmap for Career Women Transitioning to Stay-at-Home Moms
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
From Boardroom to Baby provides emotional encouragement and practical guidance for career women who are opting out of the workforce to stay home with their children.
A recent Gallup poll concluded that stay-at-home moms were significantly less likely than working moms to consider their lives...
by Annalisa Conti
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
From the author of AFRICA and THE W SERIES, a gripping novel that follows Amber Gillingham, an accomplished journalist, as she wrestles with society’s expectations about women and motherhood.
Everything is perfectly organized in Amber’s life: her days at work, in the offices of a prestigious...
Mothers and Sons
Centering Mother Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2016
Mothers and Sons: Centering Mother Knowledge makes a case for the need to de-gender the framing and study of parental legacy. The actualization of an entire collection on this dyad foregrounding motherhood without particularizing the absence of fatherhood is in itself revolutionary. This assemblage...
Birth Formations
What Multiple Home Births Teach About Living, Laboring, and Mothering in the Now
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
A nuts-and-bolts approach on how to actualize the New Age concept of living in the present moment before conception, during pregnancy, throughout delivery and in the midst of postpartum motherhood for the busy woman who desires to do and have it all.
Birth Formations: What Multiple Home Births...
A Mother’S Pearls
Joyous Moments of Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
This book celebrates some of the most memorable moments of motherhood. The joy, laughter, and even embarrassment that only a mother can love.