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Motherless Mothers: How Losing a Mother Shapes the Parent You Become
ISBN: 9780060532468 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Hope Edelman, author of the New York Times bestseller Motherless Daughters, became a parent, she found herself revisiting the loss of her mother in ways she had never anticipated. Now the mother of two young girls, Edelman set out to learn how the loss of a mother to death or abandonment can affect the ways women raise their own children. In Motherless Mothers, Edelman uses her own story as a prism to reveal the unique anxieties and desires that these women experience as they raise their children without the help of a living maternal guide. In an... When Hope Edelman, author of the New York Times bestseller Motherless Daughters, became a parent, she found herself revisiting th... |
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86,54 zł |
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Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write about Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves
ISBN: 9780060598792 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 and fiercely honest essays on the profound issues that affect women and their children. Because I Said So offers thirty-three unique perspectives on motherhood from such writers as Janet Fitch, Mariane Pearl, Ayelet Waldman, Mary Roach, Rosellen Brown, Mary Morris, and Ana Castillo.... The challenges facing mothers in the twenty-first century go well beyond tantrum control and potty training. Camille Peri and Kate Moses, the found... |
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63,57 zł |
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Sleepless in America: Is Your Child Misbehaving...or Missing Sleep?
ISBN: 9780060736026 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Does your child
An estimated 69 percent of American infants, children, and teens are sleep deprived. Studies have shown that sleep deficits can contribute to hyperactivity, distraction, forgetfulness, learning problems, illness, accidents, and disruptive behaviors. Often what our misbehaving kids really need isn't more "consequences" or more medication but more sleep. Sleepless in... Does your child
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68,31 zł |
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The Mother Dance: How Children Change Your Life
ISBN: 9780060930257 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the celebrated author of The Dance of Anger comes an extraordinary book about mothering and how it transforms us -- and all our relationships -- inside and out. Written from her dual perspective as a psychologist and a mother, Lerner brings us deeply personal tales that run the gamut from the hilarious to the heart-wrenching. From birth or adoption to the empty nest, The Mother Dance teaches the basic lessons of motherhood: that we are not in control of what happens to our children, that most of what we worry about doesn't happen, and that our children will love us... From the celebrated author of The Dance of Anger comes an extraordinary book about mothering and how it transforms us -- and all our relat... |
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77,43 zł |
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Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles: Winning for a Lifetime
ISBN: 9780060930431 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. End Those Power Struggles and Begin Connecting with Your Child Noted family educator Mary Sheedy Kurcinka struck a national chord with her bestselling Raising Your Spirited Child. Now she hits upon another crucial parenting topic: coping with the everyday challenges of disciplining your child, while understanding the issues behind his or her behavior. In Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles, she offers unique approaches to solving the daily, and often draining, power struggles between you and your child. Kurcinka views these conflicts as rich opportunities to teach... End Those Power Struggles and Begin Connecting with Your Child Noted family educator Mary Sheedy Kurcinka struck a national chord with her be... |
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72,87 zł |
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Raising Your Spirited Child Workbook
ISBN: 9780060952402 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Essential Companion Workbook To The National Bestseller Raising Your Spirited Child, In this companion workbook, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka brings readers into her world-famous workshops, where she offers parents and educators insights, emotional support and proven strategies for dealing with spirited children. The key word that distinguishes spirited children from other children is -more- -- more intense, more persistent, more sensitive and more uncomfortable with change. Through exercises, observations and dialogue from actual groups, Kurcinka helps readers... The Essential Companion Workbook To The National Bestseller Raising Your Spirited Child, In this companion workbook, ... |
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86,54 zł |
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Strong Mothers, Strong Sons: Raising the Next Generation of Men
ISBN: 9780060976484 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A practical, informative guide for mothers on raising secure, healthy sons.
A practical, informative guide for mothers on raising secure, healthy sons.
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95,66 zł |
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What the Other Mothers Know: A Practical Guide to Child Rearing Told in a Really Nice, Funny Way That Won't Make You Feel Like a Complete Idiot the
ISBN: 9780061139864 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by three mothers who've been through it all, What the Other Mothers Know gives you straight, funny, realistic talk on:
The maternal wisdom of the ages is right in your hands--delivered with a heaping spoonful of humor. Written by three mothers who've been through it all, What the Other Mothers Know gives you straight, funny, realistic talk on: |
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91,10 zł |
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The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother
ISBN: 9781617691836 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first 40 days after the birth of a child offer an essential and fleeting period of rest and recovery for the new mother. Based on author Heng Ou's own postpartum experience with zuo yuezi, a set period of "confinement," in which a woman remains at home focusing on healing and bonding with her baby, The First Forty Days revives the lost art of caring for the mother after birth. As modern mothers are pushed to prematurely "bounce back" after deliver-ing their babies, and are often left alone to face the physical and emotional challenges of this new stage of their...The first 40 days after the birth of a child offer an essential and fleeting period of rest and recovery for the new mother. Based on author Heng O... |
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128,47 zł |
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Shelley's Goddess : Maternity, Language, Subjectivity
ISBN: 9780195073843 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The subject of Gelpi's new book is the importance of the mother-infant relationship in Percy Bysshe Shelly's poetry and life. However, her book also uses Shelley as a touchstone by which to examine the rich historical and theoretical issues relevant to motherhood in the Romantic period. Gelpi offers a detailed account of the historical rise in attention paid to mothering, the changing cultural attitudes towards the role of the mother, and the resulting effect on the nature of family life. She further discusses the psychoanalytic, Marxist, and developmental approaches to the mother/infant...
The subject of Gelpi's new book is the importance of the mother-infant relationship in Percy Bysshe Shelly's poetry and life. However, her book also u...
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290,62 zł |
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Telling Bodies Performing Birth : Everyday Narratives of Childbirth
ISBN: 9780231109154 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Birth stories, Della Pollock tells us, "are everywhere and nowhere," permeating and haunting our everyday lives. In this remarkable volume Pollock explores the myriad ways in which men and women recount the ritual performance of giving birth. Many of these stories, Pollock observes, rise out of the depths of terror, flirting with disaster only to end with a profound sense of relief at what medical discourse calls a "good outcome." Others represent pain, make counterclaims on reproductive technologies, and suggest complex associations between maternity, sexuality, and body politics in the...
Birth stories, Della Pollock tells us, "are everywhere and nowhere," permeating and haunting our everyday lives. In this remarkable volume Pollock exp...
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242,35 zł |
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The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood
ISBN: 9780300076523 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Working mothers today confront not only conflicting demands on their time and energy but also conflicting ideas about how they are to behave: they must be nurturing and unselfish while engaged in child rearing but competitive and ambitious at work. As more and more women enter the workplace, it would seem reasonable for society to make mothering a simpler and more efficient task. Instead, Sharon Hays points out in this original and provocative book, an ideology of "intensive mothering" has developed that only exacerbates the tensions working mothers face. Drawing on ideas about mothering...
Working mothers today confront not only conflicting demands on their time and energy but also conflicting ideas about how they are to behave: they mus...
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248,73 zł |
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Expectant Moments : Devotions for Expectant Couples
ISBN: 9780310242871 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Build a household of faith together as you prepare the way for the child to come . . .Expectant Moments is a delightful and inspiring collection of devotional thoughts for parents-in-waiting. Written by Gene and Lisa Fant when they were expecting twins, these meditations speak to the hopes, dreams, fears, and joys that come with expecting a child. Personal stories, Bible readings, and prayers help you focus as a couple on your personal growth, preparing a spiritual as well as a physical home for your baby. Expectant Moments will help you get ready as a couple for this new stage in your family...
Build a household of faith together as you prepare the way for the child to come . . .Expectant Moments is a delightful and inspiring collection of de...
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68,31 zł |
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Mom's Everything Book for Daughters: Practical Ideas for a Quality Relationship
ISBN: 9780310242949 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You want your relationship with your daughter to be so close that you only grow closer when she hits her teenage years. The time to start is now, in these fun, cuddly, critically important years between ages eight and twelve. Mom s Everything Book for Daughters will help you build a warm, wonderful friendship with your daughter that just deepens as she blossoms into a woman. From the whimsical to the heart-to-heart, here is a potpourri of the best, most usable, fun ways to connect with your daughter as you face the issues that concern her together. From helping her enjoy her appearance, to...
You want your relationship with your daughter to be so close that you only grow closer when she hits her teenage years. The time to start is now, in t...
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86,54 zł |
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What Every Mom Needs
ISBN: 9780310270492 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When do you get time for you? Remember when you had a life of your own? The hectic job of being a mom is fraught with sacrifices, fears, and uncertainties. But nothing offers greater rewards or more opportunities to enrich yourself than raising your kids. What Every Mom Needs shows you how being a great mom and a person in your own right go hand-in-hand. Extensively revised and updated based on current research and the latest survey of moms by MOPS(R) International (Mothers of Preschoolers), this bestselling book helps you deal with the realities you face today as a young mother. If you've...
When do you get time for you? Remember when you had a life of your own? The hectic job of being a mom is fraught with sacrifices, fears, and uncertain...
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86,54 zł |
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Hello, My Name Is Mommy: The Dysfunctional Girl's Guide to Having, Loving (and Hopefully Not Screwing Up) a Baby
ISBN: 9780312318321 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hilarious and true and inspirational, Hello, My Name is Mommy is for every pregnant woman and new mother who ever felt helpless and out of control instead of confident and aglow. Sure, women know pregnancy is no bed of roses, but Lynch taps into her own dysfunctional childhood and fears about becoming a mom to label a much profounder worry many moms-to-be have: that their own pasts were so screwed up that they're doomed to repeat the cycle. Dr. Spock may tell moms to trust their instincts, but Lynch's Misfit Mommies want to do every last thing but that. They feel like frauds... Hilarious and true and inspirational, Hello, My Name is Mommy is for every pregnant woman and new mother who ever felt helpless and out of c... |
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91,10 zł |
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Teenage Pregnancy : A Global View
ISBN: 9780313311956 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teenage pregnancy is a worldwide problem that accompanies the initiation of sexual activity at increasingly younger ages. This unique reference resource provides students with cross-cultural comparisons of the issues associated with teenage pregnancy. How do different cultures deal with this problem? How has the problem changed in recent years? What programs have been initiated to try to control the problem? Answers to these and other questions for fifteen different countries are explored in detail to give a global perspective and to challenge students to think about how the problem should... Teenage pregnancy is a worldwide problem that accompanies the initiation of sexual activity at increasingly younger ages. This unique reference res... |
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510,30 zł |
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The Attachment Parenting Book: A Commonsense Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Baby
ISBN: 9780316778091 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Might you and your baby both sleep better if you shared a bed? How old is too old for breastfeeding? What is a father's role in nurturing a newborn? How does early attachment foster a child's eventual independence? Dr. Bill and Martha Sears -- the doctor-and-nurse, husband-and-wife team who coined the term "attachment parenting" -- answer these and many more questions in this practical, inspiring guide. Attachment parenting is a style of parenting that encourages a strong early attachment, and advocates parental responsiveness to babies' dependency needs. "The Attachment Parenting Book"...
Might you and your baby both sleep better if you shared a bed? How old is too old for breastfeeding? What is a father's role in nurturing a newborn? H...
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72,87 zł |
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The Yale Child Study Center Guide to Understanding Your Child: Healthy Development from Birth to Adolescence
ISBN: 9780316794329 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How is a two-year-old's capacity for experiencing emotion different from a five-year-old's? What can and should you do to encourage your child's development of motor skills? Can you stimulate your baby to be smarter? How should you help your child differentiate between right and wrong? The Yale Child Study Center, founded in 1911, is world renowned not only for its contributions to the scientific and clinical understanding of infant and child development but also for bringing the insights of its cutting-edge research directly to parents. The Yale Child Study Center Guide to Understanding Your...
How is a two-year-old's capacity for experiencing emotion different from a five-year-old's? What can and should you do to encourage your child's devel...
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109,33 zł |
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Pregnancy and Birth: The Conspiracy of Silence: Essential Details They Conveniently Forget to Tell You
ISBN: 9780994151827 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "An extremely frank and insightful guidebook that breaks the 'Code of Silence' among the sisterhood of women." No longer should new mothers have to wrestle inside themselves, feeling emotionally alone, inept or a failure. Eighty percent of new mothers feel shocked how radically their life is changing and feel as though a lack of truthful discourse among experienced mothers and medical personnel have left them unprepared mentally and emotionally. This book is filled with numerous answers to your questions, creating on open conversation with women and their partners,... "An extremely frank and insightful guidebook that breaks the 'Code of Silence' among the sisterhood of women." No longer should ne... |
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90,91 zł |