Motherhood category: 1477 books
Broken Brain, Fortified Faith
Lessons of Hope through a Child's Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The terms "mental illness” and “mental health” are often used casually, but many don’t believe mental illness is relevant to their lives. However, studies show that more people live with mental illness than heart disease, lung disease, and cancer combined.
Broken Brain,...
by Maggie McGuinness
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
In the Single ... with Children series, Maggie McGuinness writes about the juggling act of parenthood. Balls in the air at any one time include not only coping with - but enjoying - life as a single parent, earning a living, trying to keep some semblance of order in the home, maintaining an amicable...
Early Birds
A Mother's Story for Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
In the winter of 2002, Jenny Minton delivered her sons, Sam and Gus. She was thirty-one weeks pregnant, and her boys, conceived through in vitro fertilization, were more than two months early. Both boys were placed on immediate life support, and for sixty-four days they hovered, critically ill, in...
by Jessica Aldridge
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
My name is Jessica Aldridge and this is my diary of a failing nobody. I'm just a regular woman living a regular life like everybody else; or so it may appear on the surface. Living in the shadow or disability, love, loss, isolation and self-loathing I can only dream of being perfect. I often dream...
Bad Mothers
Regulations, Representations, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
While the image or construct of the “good mother” has been the focus of many research projects, the “bad mother,” as a discursive construct, and also mothers who do “bad” things as complicated, agentic social actors, have been quite neglected, despite the prevalence of the image of the...
Sacred Inception
Reclaiming the Spirituality of Birth in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
This edited volume explores the intersection of spirituality with childbirth from 1800 to the present day from a comparative perspective. It illustrates how over this time period in much of the world, traditional practices, home births, and midwives have been overshadowed and undermined by male dominated...
Missing the Mark?
Women and the Millennium Development Goals in Africa and Oceania
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
In the year 2000, United Nations world leaders set out eight targets, the UN Millennium Development Goals, for achieving improved standards of living at the micro level in poorer nations around the globe, by the year 2015. The papers in this collection present fine-detailed ethnographic studies of...
Through My Eyes
A Mother's Guide From Baby
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
What is my baby thinking? What can I do to help my baby feel safe and comfortable? What is my new bundle of joy trying to tell me? Most new parents go through similar trials and tribulations. This heart-warming photographic book offers blessedly short, yet power-packed gems of information....
A New Way for Mothers
A Revolutionary Approach for Mothers to Use Their Skills and Talents While Their Children Are at School
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
There is incredibly important yet untapped talent among mothers who have replaced career aspirations or creative outlets with family priority. Those women who have put their interests on hold to care for their children face a huge challenge in re-connecting with the professional world again in a way...
Loving My Gay Child
A Mother's Journey to Acceptance
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Like many parents, Sushma and Vijay Agarwal expected both of their sons to grow up, marry a lovely girl, and raise a family. When their younger son told them in 2004 that he was gay, Sushma was devastated. She wanted to know why this had happened to her family, who was to blame, and what she should do...
How to Raise a Real Man, Not a Pimp
Momma Ho and the Pimp Generation
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
How to raise a real man not a pimp offers a down-to-earth perspective and resolution for parents raising boys, especially struggling single parents trying to raise their sons. This book explains the existence of a pimp generation and a parenting style called a Momma Ho. The book is full of information...
by Kerri Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
A caring, funny and extremely practical book full of hands on ideas on how to fully enjoy the first three years with your baby twins, their siblings, your partner and yourself.
It looks at the key areas where a twin mum can actively avoid becoming to exhausted or overwhelmed. A must read for every...
When You Thought I Wasn't Looking
A Book of Thanks for Mom
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
"When I wrote a tribute for my mother years ago, I never anticipated it would take a worldwide journey. Nonetheless, that is exactly what happened. The story I am about to share with you may read like fiction. I can assure you, there is nothing in the world that has ever been more true." --Mary Rita...
by Kelly DuMar
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Whether you're expecting your first child or you’re a parent already, Before You Forget – The Wisdom of Writing Diaries for Your Children is a must have book. Diary writing for your children is a valuable and creative parenting tool that can build your child’s self-esteem, enhance your parenting...