Simply Parenting is a 'must read' for parents, especially first-time parents, of babies and toddlers. This book addresses questions and issues that arise, such as coping with a new baby's sleep patterns and a toddler's resistance to bedtimes. Information is given on play ideas, your child's self-esteem, developmental stages, tantrums, and snippets on the all-important health and nutrition. The chapters are short and punchy, ensuring Simply Parenting is a quick and easy read for busy mums and dads. It mixes new ideas with gentle refreshers, keeping the concept of effective parenting simple and...

This open access volume offers original essays on how motherhood and mothering are represented in contemporary fiction and life writing across several national contexts. Providing a broad range of perspectives in terms of geopolitical places, thematic concerns, and theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, it demonstrates the significance of literary narratives for understanding and critiquing motherhood and mothering as social phenomena and subjective experiences. The chapters contextualize motherhood and mothering in terms of their particular national and cultural location and analyze...

This open access volume offers original essays on how motherhood and mothering are represented in contemporary fiction and life writing across several national contexts. Providing a broad range of perspectives in terms of geopolitical places, thematic concerns, and theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, it demonstrates the significance of literary narratives for understanding and critiquing motherhood and mothering as social phenomena and subjective experiences. The chapters contextualize motherhood and mothering in terms of their particular national and cultural location and analyze...