Product Description: A must-read book about American Mothers!In All On One Plate, anthropologist Solveig Brown talks to mothers who candidly acknowledge their vulnerabilities as a parent and graciously share the things they do that have made parenting, relationships, work, and life a little easier...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In 2010, seven women met in Brooklyn, New York, to form a Mommy Group. Over coffee, croissants, wine, and the occasional baby carrot, they commiserated about typical new-mother issues: difficult births, babies who slept in ten-minute increments, and breast pumps that talked back in the middle of the night...read more

Product Description: “Elizabeth Isadora Gold writes vividly and humorously about the trials and trip-outs of new-motherhood.” —The New Yorker “If you only read one parenting book this year, make it The Mommy Group...This book is incisive, insightful, and downright delightful...read more

Product Description: Now, 25 years into our country's most recent "women's movement" for equality, it is appropriate to reexamine the social and cultural experiences of women. Thanks to the media, researchers, clinicians, and the general public, all are aware that women have been unable to realize many of their goals...read more

Product Description: The title The Lives Our Mothers Leave Us encapsulates what this book by Patti Davis is about. No matter what a woman achieves in her life, no matter how old she gets or whether or not she herself becomes a mother, she is always and forever a daughter...read more

Product Description: "What I want to say to you is that sometimes life catches you by surprise and you feel unequipped to handle what it brings you, but every bit of life you've lived before that moment equips you to live through it. That's what I would give to you...read more

Product Description: When San Diego Chargers running back and NFL MVP LaDainian Tomlinson (“LT”) was a senior in high school, he wrote his mom a letter making three promises: He was going to go to college, he was going to play professional football, and he was going to make her the proudest mother in the world...read more

Product Description: This profound and poignant collection highlights some of the best literary writers of our time in an era when the roles of mothers and daughters are constantly being questioned and redefined. Because I Love Her explores the deepest bonds and truths of motherhood by sharing stories and secrets of becoming a mother and grandmother...read more

Product Description: A Sane Woman's Guide to Raising a Large Family is written from the practical, experienced perspective of a mother of ten and has thoughtful, helpful answers to important questions, such as: Can a mother meet the needs of multiple children without drowning in sheer neediness? How can a moderate income stretch to include more children? How can you make space in your home work for you? What are some ideas for handling mountains of laundry? How can you preserve time for yourself and your marriage? How can you manage multiple children and their activities? Includes tips on organization, helping kids succeed in school, affordable vacations, and large-family economics...read more

Product Description: "Is That Your Child?" is a question that countless mothers of biracial children encounter whether they are African American or European American, rearing children today or a generation ago, living in the city or in the suburbs, are upper middle class or lower middle class...read more

Product Description: Where did Beyoncé get her groove? Where did Lance Armstrong get his drive? Where did Steven Spielberg get his creative vision? Every success story begins with . . . Mom When Stephanie Hirsch gave birth to her son, she began to think about the kind of person she'd like him to be: generous, family oriented, loving, courageous, and professionally accomplished—maybe he'd turn out like Steven Spielberg! But what, she wondered, had Spielberg's mother done so well? What started out as one conversation with Steven Spielberg's mom became a quest to interview the mothers of some of the most talented artists, brilliant journalists, and dedicated athletes of our time...read more

Product Description: This celebration of stay–at–home motherhood is filled with practical ideas to make the choice and journey sweeter, easier, and more fulfilling. Author and long–time mentor to moms, Donna Otto shares how mothers can: be women of God in a world of children fine–tune their household routine make time for themselves choose the best educational option for their children find support from other moms and women This insightful, encouraging, and personable resource will help those evaluating the decision and will be a life saver for mom’s already discovering the rewards of being at home...read more

Product Description: In this astonishing book, sociologist Amy Neustein and attorney Michael Lesher examine the serious dysfunction of the nation's family courts -- a dysfunction that too often results in the courts' failure to protect the people they were designed to help...read more

Product Description: An inspirational book that inspires women to embrace motherhood and to make a strong loving family the centerpiece of their ambitions and goals.

A survey of the best of Hip Mama, a zine for modern mothers, includes funny, poignant, soulful writing about dating, circumcision, abortion, home schooling, and much, much more. Original.

Filled with useful, common sense information about raising a teenager, this helpful parents' guide to navigating the teen years covers safety issues, summer vacations, Ritalin, dieting, college, learner's permits, and much, much more. Original.

Challenges idealized concepts about motherhood that the author believes compromise women's rights and empowerment without benefiting children, citing such factors as unrealistic parenting standards, media scare tactics, and negative attitudes that victimize both working and stay-at-home moms. 100,000 first printing.

Product Description: According to Andrea Buchanan, "Mother shock" is the state in which many new parents exist during those first confusing, chaotic and often comical years of parenting. It is the clash between expectation and result, theory and reality...read more

Provides guidance for moms choosing to shift from the workplace to the career of full-time motherhood, tackling the 'whys' and the 'hows' of this transition that strike at the core of a woman's concept of self, accomplishment, and worth. Original. (view table of contents)