What Mothers Do Especially When It Looks Like Nothing Paperback - 2007
by Naomi Stadlen
Instead of preaching what mothers ought to do, psychotherapist Naomi Stadlen explains what mothers already doin the course of any exhausting day's work. Drawing from countless conversations with hundreds of mothers spanning more than a decade, What Mothers Do provides lucid insight into the true experience of motherhood and answers the perennial question common to mothers everywhere: What have I done all day?
Stadlen's wise reflections, threaded throughout with the voices of real mothers, explore unsentimental reactions to motherhood-resentment, guilt, splintered identity, crippling inefficiency, and deadening fatigue. Yet the overriding sentiment is one of empowerment and wonder, as Stadlen illustrates how seemingly insignificant skills such as responding to a baby's colicky cry, being instantly interruptible, or soothing an overstimulated child to sleep profoundly contribute to an individual's socialization, self-worth, and curiosity. Remarkably perceptive and heartening, What Mothers Do will resonate with mothers everywhere in search of understanding and wisdom.
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Stadlen's wise reflections, threaded throughout with the voices of real mothers, explore unsentimental reactions to motherhood-resentment, guilt, splintered identity, crippling inefficiency, and deadening fatigue. Yet the overriding sentiment is one of empowerment and wonder, as Stadlen illustrates how seemingly insignificant skills such as responding to a baby's colicky cry, being instantly interruptible, or soothing an overstimulated child to sleep profoundly contribute to an individual's socialization, self-worth, and curiosity. Remarkably perceptive and heartening, What Mothers Do will resonate with mothers everywhere in search of understanding and wisdom.
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- Title What Mothers Do Especially When It Looks Like Nothing
- Author Naomi Stadlen
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Tarcherperigee, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
- Date September 6, 2007
- Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781585425914 / 1585425915
- Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 8.41 x 5.81 x 0.94 in (21.36 x 14.76 x 2.39 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Topical: Women's Interest
- Library of Congress subjects Infants - Care, Motherhood
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007027932
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.874
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- Library Journal, 10/15/2007, Page 0
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