The Madness of Modern Parenting - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Madness of Modern Parenting write by Zoe Williams. This book was released on 2014-11-27. The Madness of Modern Parenting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Parenting in the modern world is an overwhelming concept. It seems to divide everyone from psychologists and politicians to scientists and salesmen, leaving the parents themselves with a terrible headache as a result. How can anyone live up to such expansive and conflicting expectations? As Zoe Williams explores, the madness begins before the baby has even arrived: hysteria is rife surrounding everything from drinking alcohol and eating cheese to using a new frying pan. And it only gets worse. The list of things you need to consider (as well as the things you never realised you needed to consider) is ever-increasing, and questions of breastfeeding, buggies, staying at home, schooling - and what your mother-in-law thinks you're doing wrong - take over completely. The task of raising a child has been turned into a circus of ludicrous proportions. Combining laugh-out-loud tales of parenthood with myth-busting facts and figures, Zoe provides the antithesis of all parenting discussions to date. After all, parents managed perfectly well for centuries before this modern madness, so why do today's mothers and fathers make such an almighty fuss about everything?
The Madness of Modern Parenting
The Madness of Modern Parenting - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Madness of Modern Parenting write by Annie Ashworth. This book was released on 2007. The Madness of Modern Parenting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Madness of Modern Families
The Madness of Modern Families - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Madness of Modern Families write by Annie Ashworth. This book was released on 2007-10-18. The Madness of Modern Families available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This title provides hilarious insight into the modern rat race that is modern middle-class parenting.
Perfect Madness
Perfect Madness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perfect Madness write by Judith Warner. This book was released on 2006-02-07. Perfect Madness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A lively and provocative look at the modern culture of motherhood and at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped current ideas about parenting What is wrong with this picture? That's the question Judith Warner asks in this national bestseller after taking a good, hard look at the world of modern parenting--at anxious women at work and at home and in bed with unhappy husbands. When Warner had her first child, she was living in Paris, where parents routinely left their children home, with state-subsidized nannies, to join friends in the evening for dinner or to go on dates with their husbands. When she returned to the States, she was stunned by the cultural differences she found toward how people think about effective parenting--in particular, assumptions about motherhood. None of the mothers she met seemed happy; instead, they worried about the possibility of not having the perfect child, panicking as each developmental benchmark approached. Combining close readings of mainstream magazines, TV shows, and pop culture with a thorough command of dominant ideas in recent psychological, social, and economic theory, Perfect Madness addresses our cultural assumptions, and examines the forces that have shaped them. Working in the tradition of classics like Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism, and with an awareness of a readership that turned recent hits like The Bitch in the House and Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It into bestsellers, Warner offers a context in which to understand parenting culture and the way we live, as well as ways of imagining alternatives--actual concrete changes--that might better our lives.
All Joy and No Fun
All Joy and No Fun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook All Joy and No Fun write by Jennifer Senior. This book was released on 2014-01-28. All Joy and No Fun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior now asks: what are the effects of children on their parents? In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle this question, isolating and analyzing the many ways in which children reshape their parents' lives, whether it's their marriages, their jobs, their habits, their hobbies, their friendships, or their internal senses of self. She argues that changes in the last half century have radically altered the roles of today's mothers and fathers, making their mandates at once more complex and far less clear. Recruiting from a wide variety of sources—in history, sociology, economics, psychology, philosophy, and anthropology—she dissects both the timeless strains of parenting and the ones that are brand new, and then brings her research to life in the homes of ordinary parents around the country. The result is an unforgettable series of family portraits, starting with parents of young children and progressing to parents of teens. Through lively and accessible storytelling, Senior follows these mothers and fathers as they wrestle with some of parenthood's deepest vexations—and luxuriate in some of its finest rewards. Meticulously researched yet imbued with emotional intelligence, All Joy and No Fun makes us reconsider some of our culture's most basic beliefs about parenthood, all while illuminating the profound ways children deepen and add purpose to our lives. By focusing on parenthood, rather than parenting, the book is original and essential reading for mothers and fathers of today—and tomorrow.
