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Every Mom's Modern Guide to Getting Past Perfection, Regaining Sanity, and Raising Great Kids
Wiley
November 2006
On Sale: November 10, 2006
215 pages ISBN: 0470837438 EAN: 9780470837436 Paperback
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Self-Help
As a psychotherapist, parent educator and parent coach,
Alyson Schäfer has worked with a great many mothers who, in
the quest to be a "good mother" have ended up on the door
step of despair. Alyson is a forty-something, suburbanite,
working-mother of two and can speak to these issues both
personally and professionally. This book explains the psycho-social phenomena of how each
person creates their own unique "good mother myth" and then
examines why these myths are not only faulty, but could in
fact lead to poor parenting, marital disaster and individual
crisis. Her years of educating parents around these concepts
afford Alyson the skill to take complex ideas and explain
them to a lay audience in a compelling and easy to
understand way. Capitalizing on the need to present parents with information
in an easy to digest format, the book is presented as a
series of personal stories, each highlighting a common
parenting myth. This format will appeal to tired parents who
have little time and energy for "academia". Instead, readers
learn by taking a voyeuristic peek into the private family
lives of the book's characters. Readers can identify with
the fictitious parents and coaching clients in the stories
and see first hand how the characters ’ life experiences
shaped their unique "good mother myths" and how these myths
create conflict in their lives. The author offers up ideas for how the character can reject
her current thinking and adopt a more useful outlook to
improve her situation. The story arc allows readers to
identify and then project how their parenting may be
unknowingly going off the rails. The goal of this book is to provide parents with some basic
education and a means of self-discovery. Readers uncover
their own good mother myths and are given an eye-opening
glimpse into potential issues to challenge their thinking. A
great sense of empowerment is restored as mothers become
better able to resist the pulls of their personal and
cultural myths, and instead begin parenting with greater
intention and in ways that are more suitable to proper child
guidance.
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