Motherhood category: 1477 books
The Post-Adoption Blues
Overcoming the Unforseen Challenges of Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2004
Over 150,000 people adopt children each year, and more than 2 million parents are now raising adopted children and grandchildren. While the path to parenting through adoption is rich with rewards and fulfillment, it's not without its bumps. This compassionate, illuminating, and ultimately uplifting...
by Jen Hogan
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Parenthood – the greatest adventure of all. While everyone else on social media is dressed neatly and smiling happily at the camera – the picture-postcard family – you’re chasing a half-naked toddler around and simultaneously trying to remove baby vomit from your shirt. Welcome to reality!...
by Joseph P. Badame
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2015
Anyone who has a Mother should read this very short essay. But, wait, we all have Mother’s don’t we. Silly me! Well, then, every one should read this – It will take only a minute, I promise.
Taming the Tiger Mom
A Balanced Approach to Maximizing a Child's Potential
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Parents are raising their children in a world that is both more complicated and more flooded with information. The cross-generational passing down of parental wisdom from one s own family and neighbors is no longer common practice. Instead, parents receive overwhelming, often competing, advice from...
by Susan Newham-Blake
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Susan's childhood dream of becoming a mother has not diminished with the revelation, alarming both to herself and her bewildered family, that she does, in fact, 'bat for the other team'. Having made peace with her identity and having finally found a beloved partner, she is now faced with a daunting...
The Fall and Rise of Women
How women can change the world
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Dr Winfried Sedhoff’s The Fall and Rise of Women tells the story of women the world over, struggling to find fulfilling, balanced, and lastingly satisfying lives. Unrealistic expectations are thrust upon them to be mothers, workers, parents, and carers all at once. Being all things to all people has...
Angels on Earth
Mothering, Religion, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
This collection brings together scholarly and creative pieces that reveal how the intellectual, emotional, and physical work of mothering is informed by women’s religiosities and spiritualities. Its contributors examine contemporary and historical perspectives on religious and spiritual mothering...
Tranquille dentro
Il piccolo talismano della mamma
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 26, 2012
«Nessuno terrà mai a te quanto tua madre», scrive nel suo ultimo libro il grande David Foster Wallace. Un affetto smisurato che a volte si trasforma in apprensione, ossessione e controllo. È il fenomeno della «mamma elicottero», perennemente impegnata a pattugliare dall'alto la vita del figlio,...
Tutto troppo presto
L'educazione sessuale dei nostri figli nell'era di internet
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Preadolescenti e adolescenti subiscono molteplici pressioni che li spingono a volere tutto e subito, a fare tutto troppo presto. Sedotti dai media e sollecitati dal mercato, si mettono a combattere contro il proprio corpo (sognandolo diverso), contro gli amici (per sembrare più grandi e migliori),...
Listening to the Beat of Our Drum
Indigenous Parenting in a Contemporary Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Listening to the Beat of Our Drum: Indigenous Parenting in a Contemporary Society is a collection of stories, inspired by a wealth of experiences across space and time from a kokum, an auntie, two-spirit parents, a Metis mother, a Tlinglit/Anishnabe Métis mother and an allied feminist mother. This...
Loving Lindsey
Raising a Daughter with Special Needs
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
• Approximately 6.5 million people in the United States have an intellectual disability. Special Olympics notes that 1-3 percent of the global population may have an intellectual disability—as many as 200 million people. According to the IRIS Domestic Violence Center, an estimated 2-4 million...
by Dorothy Fickenscher
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
An upbeat account of a mother’s journey parenting twins with different disabilities. It is a tale of advocacy outlining the strategies used when working with doctors, teachers and neighbors.
It describes how a mother explored options available to her family, looking for the right “fit”...
by Elaine Denald-Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
A mother wraps her newborn in her arms and falls in love at first sight. She counts each tiny finger and toe and offers up a prayer of thanksgiving and asks divine protection. From, first smile, first word, first step, first bare feet on grass, on to kindergarten through to college, she is there,...
A Mommy's Road
Creative Approaches for Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
One day I caught myself yelling at the girls: “STOP YELLING!” Nothing happened, so I yelled louder. Then all of a sudden I actually heard what I was saying. As a lifelong storyteller and mom resource, Lori Koch realized her own experiences of raising three girls could easily be used as a learning...