Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other) Minute of It
10 best books like Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other) Minute of It (Andrea J. Buchanan): Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood, The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women, The Mask of Motherhood: How Becoming a Mother Changes Our Lives and Why We Never Talk About It, Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood, Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother, Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family, Inconsolable: How I Threw My Mental Health Out With the Diapers, The Second Nine Months: One Woman Tells the Real Truth about Becoming a Mom. Finally., The Highly Intuitive Child: A Guide to Understanding and Parenting Unusually Sensitive and Empathic Children, Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves
| Author | Naomi Wolf |
| ISBN | 0385497458 |
In The Beauty Myth the fearless Naomi Wolf revolutionized the way we think about beauty. In Misconceptions, she demythologizes motherhood and reveals the dangers of common assumptions about childbirth. With uncompromising honesty she describes how hormones eroded her sense of independence,...
| Author | Susan J. Douglas |
| ISBN | 0743260465 |
Taking readers on a provocative tour through thirty years of media images about mothers -- the superficial achievements of celebrity moms, the sensational coverage of dangerous day care, the media-manufactured "mommy wars" between working mothers and stay-at-home moms, and more -- The Mommy Myth...
| Author | Susan Maushart |
| ISBN | 0140291784 |
Becoming a mother is filled with the extremes of emotion --the highest highs and the lowest lows. But women are often reluctant to talk honestly about the experience for fear they'll be seen as bad mothers. With wit and candor, The Mask of Motherhood takes on the myths and the misinformation, helping...
| Author | Karen Maezen Miller |
| ISBN | 1590302966 |
Combining humor, honesty, and plainspoken advice, Momma Zen distills the doubts and frustrations of parenting into vignettes of Zen wisdom.
Drawing on her experience as a first-time mother, and on her years of Zen meditation and study, Miller explores how the daily challenges of parenthood...
Beth Ann Fennelly, writing to a newly pregnant friend, goes beyond the nuts and bolts or sentimentality of other parenting literature, in letters that range in tone from serious to sisterly, from lighthearted to downright funny. Some answer specific questions; others muse about the identity shift...
| Author | Catherine Newman |
| ISBN | 0143034774 |
To fifty thousand readers, Catherine Newman is the beloved author of Bringing Up Ben & Birdy, a weekly column on babycenter.com. Now in the delightfully candid, outlandishly funny Waiting for Birdy, Newman charts the year she anticipated the birth of her second child while also coping with the...
| Author | Marrit Ingman |
| ISBN | 1580051405 |
Marrit Ingman became a mother on February 27, 2002. She went crazy—also on February 27, 2002. Her journey began with a plate of carne guisada and led to an emergency cesarian, ankyloglossia, colic, gastroesphageal reflux, eczema, Zoloft, Paxil, peanut allergy, suicidal ideation, hepatitis,...
I want to walk out of Target and leave Blair there, wailing.... Nice people work at Target. Surely someone would take her home and care for her and buy her pretty things. So begins Vicki Glembocki’s brutally honest yet hilarious memoir of her agonizing transition into motherhood. Why agonizing? Because...
| Author | Catherine Crawford |
| ISBN | 0897935098 |
Some children can walk into a room and feel “the vibe” instantly in their body. Others may tune into an unspoken family conflict, or tell someone to "be careful" before stumbling into an unknown situation. These may seem to be the normal human qualities of intuition and empathy, but in highly intuitive...
| Author | Kate Moses |
| ISBN | 0060598794 |
The challenges facing mothers in the twenty-first century go well beyond tantrum control and potty training. Camille Peri and Kate Moses, the founding editors of Salon.com's "Mothers Who Think" column and the subsequent anthology of the same name, have once again compiled a selection of intimate...
| Author | Dani Klein Modisett |
| ISBN | 0312567146 |
Afterbirth is about what parenting is really like: full of inappropriate impulses, unbelievable frustrations, and idiotic situations. It’s about how life for some parents changes for the worse after their kids are born. Or so it feels. It’s about how not every three year old is charming and delightful...
"I don't know how she does it!" is an oft-heard refrain about mothers today. Funnily enough, most moms agree they have no idea how they get it done, or whether they even want the job. Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile spoke to mothers of every stripe - working, stay-at-home, part-time - and found a surprisingly...
| Author | Ariel Gore |
| ISBN | 1580050514 |
In this ground-breaking anthology, Ariel Gore and Bee Lavender ask real moms — from Web site designers to tattoo-clad waitresses — to laugh, cry, scream, and shout about motherhood. Allison Crews fights to have a voice and be recognized as a teen mother. Angela Morrill eschews both doctors and...
| Author | Stefanie Wilder-Taylor |
| ISBN | 1416954139 |
Motherhood -- it's not for wimps. Once the zigzagging hormones and endless, bleary-eyed exhaustion of the first year have worn off, you're left with the startling realization that your tiny, immobile bundle has become a rampaging toddler, complete with his or her very own, very forceful personality....
| Author | Ann Crittenden |
| ISBN | 0805066195 |
Bold and galvanizing, full of innovative solutions, The Price of Motherhood reveals the glaring disparity between the value created by mothers' work and the reward women receive for carrying out society's most important job.
In this provocative book, award-winning economics journalist...
| Author | Christina Baker Kline |
| ISBN | 0385333021 |
I really like Christina Baker Kline's writing, so I was curious about a book of essays that she edited, although a little weary about the sappiness factor in a book about becoming a mother. It was actually really good and more interesting than I thought it would be. I don't think I would give this as a baby...
| Author | Amy Wilson |
| ISBN | 0061956953 |
An Open Letter to the Author:
Dear Amy,
Is it okay if I call you “Amy”? Because after reading your book, I feel like I have known you my whole life. Actually, I feel like you are me (but with better skin and sharper wit). I bought your book as a Mother’s Day present to myself, during...
| Author | Mary Sheedy Kurcinka |
Does your child refuse to cooperate in the morning? Get into trouble for not listening? "Lose it" over seemingly insignificant issues? Seem to resist sleep?
An estimated 69 percent of American infants, children, and teens are sleep deprived. Studies have shown that sleep deficits can contribute...
| Author | Alyson Schafer |
| ISBN | 0470837438 |
Within each new mother lives an ideal that like the perfect house and husband is doomed to fall short. The "good mother myth" an ideal that parents create for themselves says psychotherapist and parent coach Alyson Sch fer, is the sort of widely held misconception that ultimately sabotages people's...
Teaching Kids to Be Good People: Progressive Parenting for the 21st Century
| Author | Annie Fox |
| ISBN | 1480083933 |
“Not all teachers are parents, but all parents are teachers. When we teach kids to be good people who possess the social courage to do the right thing, we help to make the world a safer, saner, more accepting place for all of us.” —Annie Fox, M.Ed.
We live in a time shaped by a viral culture...
| Author | Christie Mellor |
| ISBN | 0811840549 |
Parents were here first! How did the kids suddenly take control? Sure the world has changed from the days when children were supposed to be seen and not heard, but things have gotten a little out of hand. What about some quality time for the grownups? Author Christie Mellor's hilarious, personal, refreshing,...
| Author | Melissa Atkins Wardy |
| ISBN | 1613745524 |
Named one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2014
All-pink aisles in toy stores, popular dolls that resemble pole dancers, ultra sexy Halloween costumes in tween sizes. Many parents are increasingly dismayed at how today’s media, marketers, and manufacturers are sexualizing and stereotyping...
The Good Mother Myth: Redefining Motherhood to Fit Reality
| Author | Avital Norman Nathman |
| ISBN | 1580055028 |
In an era of mommy blogs, Pinterest, and Facebook, The Good Mother Myth dismantles the social media-fed notion of what it means to be a good mother. This collection of essays takes a realistic look at motherhood and provides a platform for real voices and raw stories, each adding to the narrative of motherhood...
