Schwangerschaft & Elternschaft

Warrior Mother: Fierce Love, Unbearable, Loss, and Rituals that Heal is the true story of a mother's fierce love and determination, and her willingness to go outside the bounds of the ordinary when two of her three adult children are diagnosed with life-threatening disease.

Wenn Sie dieses Buch in der Hand halten, dann hat Ihnen wahrscheinlich ein Mensch, der Missbrauch ablehnt, dazu geraten. Für Menschen, die den Mut aufbringen und all jene, die den Mut noch aufbringen werden, das Unfassbare wahrzunehmen und somit eine opferschützende Position einzunehmen und das näherzubringen.Mit diesem Buch möchte ich versuchen, eine Lücke zu schließen. Eltern in ihren Kompetenzen stärken. Ihnen aufzeigen, dass wir die Verantwortung nicht nur haben, sondern auch tragen müssen; unseren Kindern, den Schutzbedürftigen auch ein Leben als Kind zu ermöglichen.Wenn Kinder altersgerecht aufgeklärt werden und zu Selbstbewusstsein und Selbstvertrauen erzogen werden, so ist das die wichtigste Basis für eine wirksame Prävention gegen sexuellen Missbrauch und alle anderen Übergriffe.Nehmen Sie ihre Kinder wahr und beschützen Sie ihre Kinder vor Gewalt, vor Ein- und Übergriffe in ihr kindliches Leben, das durch einen Missbrauch unwiederbringlich zerstört werden kann.

This is one mother's account of trying to raise and educate a son half decently, a journey that took the family from private school to public school to homeschooling.

Kids today seem to be under more competitive pressure than ever, while studies show that reading, writing, and the arts in schools are suffering. Is there any place for imagination in kids' lives anymore? In a dog-eat-dog world, why dream things that aren't there?In gorgeous prose and through personal stories, Beth Kephart resoundingly affirms the imagination as the heart of our ability to empathize with others, to appreciate the world, and to envision possibilities for the future. The star of her story is once again her son, Jeremy (as in her National Book Award-nominated A Slant of Sun), now fourteen years old-a child who at first resists storytelling, preferring more objective and orderly pursuits, but later leads a neighborhood book club/writing group and aspires to follow Steven Spielberg into moviemaking.Embedded in the text and appendices are examples of how to inspire children to read, write, and dream.

Janice Morgan faces her worst nightmare when her son is arrested for drug charges and wanton endangerment with a handgun. When she learns that he can have his sentence diverted if he completes the drug court program, she reflects on what it will take to avoid falling back into codependent patterns-and truly help her son.

From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental loveHow is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard Fords parentsEdna, a feisty, pretty Catholic-school girl with a difficult past; and Parker, a sweet-natured, soft-spoken traveling salesmanwere rural Arkansans born at the turn of the twentieth century. Married in 1928, they lived alone together on the road, traveling throughout the South. Eventually they had one child, born late, in 1944.For Ford, the questions of what his parents dreamed of, how they loved each other and loved him become a striking portrait of American life in the mid-century. Between Them is his vivid image of where his life began and where his parents lives found their greatest satisfaction. Bringing his celebrated candor, wit, and intelligence to this most intimate and mysterious of landscapesour parents livesthe award-winning storyteller and creator of the iconic Frank Bascombe delivers an unforgettable exploration of memory, intimacy, and love.

When Brin Miller discovers that her teenage stepson has been sexually abusing her two young daughters, her life is upended and her crumbling marriage shatters completely. But she and her husband, along with their girls, work to learn resilience, forgiveness, strength, and courage, and in doing so, the unimaginable happens: they begin to heal.

In the midst of teenage rebellion, English, the youngest of six, finds her mother dead in the bathroom. Alone with a difficult father, she is sent a one-way ticket from New Jersey to San Francisco, embarking upon a journey that takes her through the earliest days of the counterculture, psychedelics, and free love, on into single parenthood, and eventually a place of fully owning her own strengths and abilities.

In this lush and vivid coming-of-age memoir about a mother's mental illness and the healing power of a loving Jewish and Hispanic extended family, young Marlena must pull away from her mother, leave her Panama home, and navigate the transition to an American world.

Clinical psychologist Catherine E. Aponte presents a vision of how to create the committed, equitable, and vibrant family and work life that the young men and women of today want.

Uprooted from her country, Esther, a British-born, Israeli young woman, ends up in in New York, pregnant and newly married to Steve, an American she barely knows, in the mid-'60s-and tries to maintain her own identity in the face of various challenges.

A comprehensive guide for the 45 million people currently taking care of family members who need assistance because of health-related problems.

Full of essential physical, emotional and relational self-care tools¿and based on research by the author that includes a survey of hundreds of moms¿this book is a life raft for moms who often feel like they are drowning in the sea of motherhood.

Babe was no goodie two-shoes: she drank, danced, and stayed up very late. She favored colorful clothes, liked giving parties, adored her husband, and always told her daughter, "Never sit if you can dance." When readers finish this book, they'll want to give their mother a hug and dance into Mother's Day and beyond.

A collection of thirty powerful essays aimed at spreading awareness and dispelling myths about postpartum depression and perinatal mood disorders.