Series in Motherhood
Books in Motherhood
Balanced: Finding Center as a Work-at-Home Mom
How can a work-at-home mom raise kids, juggle a career and take care of family responsibilities with only 24-hour days? Working at home while raising kids and juggling a career and family responsibilities is no easy feat. Author and homeschooling mom Tricia Goyer shares her tips for finding balance among all your many hats as a mom. Balancing is a process and a journey, one that Tricia herself has yet to perfect. But between writing more than forty books, raising and homeschooling six kids, being a wife, and being active in her community, she has amassed valuable tips she shares in "Balanced." The book includes tips on: —how to create focus themes for your family —how to prioritize your schedule —how to utilize your job so it also benefits your kids —how to keep yourself out of the comparison game —how to make working at home work for you —and much more!
Between Mothers and Sons: Women Writers Talk about Having Sons and Raising Men
In a groundbreaking anthology of essays on motherhood and raising sons, nineteen acclaimed women writers--including Mary Gordon, Anne Lamott, Jo-Ann Mapson, and Deborah Galyan--share their thoughts on the role of mothers, gender development, and the relationship of sons with their mothers.
Bringing Up Baby
From Dr. Spock to Gina Ford and beyond, there are a slew of childcare experts eager to pass on their advice. Unfortunately for new moms and dads, the advice can often vary dramatically, leaving most parents feeling hopelessly confused. With the benefit of real parents' wisdom paired with wit, insight and empathy, Daisy Goodwin navigates every maddening twist of the maze of experts' advice in this must-have resource and provides an oasis of sanity for all stressed new parents. All the themes of babyhoodfrom sleeping to breastfeedingare covered addressed through the methods and approaches that have worked best for real parents. Funny and consoling, this guide shows that experts aren’t always right, and that it’s ok to raise your child your way.
Choice
A moving collection of personal essays about the real, human experiences behind the highly politicized issue of reproductive choice. At a time when a woman’s most complex decisions have been reduced to political rhetoric and impersonal theory, and political debate has been hijacked by pundits and name-callers, Choice joins the discourse with an assortment of candid voices in an effort to humanize the debate about reproductive rights. In addressing a wide range of women’s choices—from using birth control to taking the morning-after pill, from adopting a child to putting a child up for adoption, from having an abortion to bringing a pregnancy to full term— Choice explores the complexities inherent in every reproductive decision. Including twenty-four honest, heartrending essays from established writers such as Francine Prose, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Pam Houston, Ann Hood, and Sarah Messer and emerging talents such as Kimi Faxon Hemingway, Stephanie Anderson, and Ashley Talley, Choice will allow you to truly understand the meaning of the word “choice”—regardless of what side of the debate you stand on. Contributors Stephanie Andersen Karen E. Bender Janet Ellerby Carolyn Ferrell Denise Gess Nina de Gramont Katie Allison Granju Kimi Faxon Hemmingway Sandy Hingston Ann Hood Pam Houston Valina Hasu Houston Kate Maloy Deborah E. McDowell Sarah Messer Jacquelyn Mitchard K.A.C. Catherine Newman Francine Prose Ashley Talley Katherine Towler Harriette E. Wimm Susan Ito Elizabeth Larsen
Expectant Mother's Soul
An entertaining and inspirational anthology for pregnant women offers a collection of humorous, poignant, and thoughtful stories about the life-changing experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenthood, in chapters including Special Moments, Delivery Day, Challeges, Advice from Others, and For Expectant Fathers. 500,000 first printing.
Expectant Mother's Soul
An entertaining and inspirational anthology for pregnant women offers a collection of humorous, poignant, and thoughtful stories about the life-changing experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenthood, in chapters including Special Moments, Delivery Day, Challeges, Advice from Others, and For Expectant Fathers. 500,000 first printing.
Expectant Mother's Soul
An entertaining and inspirational anthology for pregnant women offers a collection of humorous, poignant, and thoughtful stories about the life-changing experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenthood, in chapters including Special Moments, Delivery Day, Challeges, Advice from Others, and For Expectant Fathers. 500,000 first printing.
Hatched!
Following the bestselling Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same and Going for the Bronze , Sloane Tanen's chickens are back, but this time they've only got one thing on their minds: babies. From epidurals and stretch marks to diaper rash and day care, never before have the joys, trials, and tribulations of having and raising a baby been so ingeniously and truthfully rendered. Hatched! is the one book you need to keep you laughing through your pregnancy and first year of motherhood. PRAISE: "There are two stars in Tanen's books: her vermouth-sloshed wit shot through with a neurotic darkness, and miniature chenille chickens toting fingernail-sized Louis Vuitton bags ... [In] her new book, "Hatched! The Big Push From Pregnancy to Motherhood," ...[Tanen] redirected her alkaline humor at her fellow high-end parents. Now the chicks are obsessed with Baby Uggs, Bugaboo Strollers and whether their babies will master Mommy and Me yoga classes." - Los Angeles Times "Sometimes, the best gift for a mom is a laugh. Even the most sleep-deprived mother would be hard-pressed not to break a smile at Sloane Tanen's little toy chicken tableaus in 'Hatched!: The Big Push from Pregnancy to Motherhood.' It takes other authors entire memoirs to skewer some of the same targets that Tanen does in one-page zingers."- Seattle Times "With witty photographs...and droll captions...it's the perfect gift for the pending or new mother. It's certainly good for some big belly laughs."- Daily News "Sloane Tanen's latest work Hatched! is a hilarious, totally original take on the trials and traumas of pregnancy and motherhood. And by the way, Hatched! is THE PERFECT BABY SHOWER GIFT. We highly recommend." - Mommy Track'd "If best-selling author Sloane Tanen's books Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same and Going for the Bronze-both of which are illustrated with chickens-left you chuckling and buying copies for friends, wait until you flip thro
How to Be a Good Mom(With: Janet Chester Bly)
Book by Bly, Stephen A., Bly, Janet
It's a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons
The most popular question any pregnant woman is asked, aside from "When are you due?", has got to be "Are you having a girl or a boy?" When author Andrea Buchanan, already a mom to a little girl, was pregnant with her second child, she marveled at the response of friends and total strangers alike: "Boys are wonderful," "Boys are so much better than girls," "Boys love their mothers differently than girls." This constant refrain led her to explore the issue herself, with help from her fellow writers and moms, many of whom had had the same experience. The result is It's A Boy , a wide-ranging, often-humorous, and honest collection of essays about the experience of mothering boys. Taking on topics like aggression, parenting a teenage boy, and wishing for a daughter but getting a son, It's A Boy explores what it's like to mother sons and how that experience may be different, but no less satisfying, than mothering girls.
It's a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons
The most popular question any pregnant woman is asked, aside from "When are you due?", has got to be "Are you having a girl or a boy?" When author Andrea Buchanan, already a mom to a little girl, was pregnant with her second child, she marveled at the response of friends and total strangers alike: "Boys are wonderful," "Boys are so much better than girls," "Boys love their mothers differently than girls." This constant refrain led her to explore the issue herself, with help from her fellow writers and moms, many of whom had had the same experience. The result is It's A Boy , a wide-ranging, often-humorous, and honest collection of essays about the experience of mothering boys. Taking on topics like aggression, parenting a teenage boy, and wishing for a daughter but getting a son, It's A Boy explores what it's like to mother sons and how that experience may be different, but no less satisfying, than mothering girls.