Motherhood

Working Moms vs Stay-At-Home Moms
by eNotAlone.com
There is always a big question as who's lifestyle is easier: stay-at-home moms or working moms? It is for sure that both types of mothers work very hard, but what is better for a woman, to stay at home with kids, or to work is very hard to determine.

Part 1
When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends: Resolving the Most Complicated Relationship of Your Life
by Victoria Secunda
In her well-researched study freelance journalist Secunda draws on 100 interviews with grown daughters in which they describe early painful relationships with their mothers, protracted in their adult emotional lives and memories.

Part 1
Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace
by Ayelet Waldman
In our mothers' day there were good mothers, neglectful mothers, and occasionally great mothers. Today we have only Bad Mothers. If you work, you're neglectful; if you stay home, you're smothering. If you discipline, you're buying them a spot on

Part 1
Beyond the Mommy Years: How to Live Happily Ever After... After the Kids Leave Home
by Carin Rubenstein Ph.D.
Thirty million mothers between 40 and 60 years old are about to face childless households for the first time in decades. For some women, it is a lonely and confusing time; but for the vast majority, it's a journey of joy and discovery.

Relaunch or Not? You Decide
Back on the Career Track: A Guide for Stay-at-Home Moms Who Want to Return to Work
by Carol Fishman Cohen, Vivian Steir Rabin
Returning to the workforce can be a daunting job for full-time moms. It requires reigniting old contacts (including co-workers who were once their junior), marketing themselves strategically, and battling the diminished self-image that plagues most women

Woman and Womanhood: A Search for Principles
by C. W. Saleeby, M.D.
It is our first principle in this discussion that the individual exists for parenthood, being a natural invention for that purpose and no other. It has been shown further that this is more pre-eminently true of woman than of man

Evening Round-Up
by William Crosbie Hunter
As I write these lines I am riding on a slow train through Oklahoma. Purposely I am in the day coach smoker for that's the place to study local color, and see the natives.

Your Post-Baby Body
Lean Mommy: Bond with Your Baby and Get Fit with the Stroller Strides Program
by Lisa Druxman
You came out of pregnancy with a different body. Plus, the physical demands of motherhood take a real physical and mental toll. This chapter explains your new needs and how to emerge fitter and stronger than ever.

The Young Mother: Management of Children in Regard to Health
by William A. Alcott
There is a prejudice abroad, to some extent, against agitating the questions - 'What shall we eat? What shall we drink? and Wherewithal shall we be clothed?' - not so much because the Scriptures have charged us not to be over 'anxious' on the subject

Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young
by Jacob Abbott
The mother is thus to understand that the principle of obedience is not to be expected to come by nature into the heart of her child, but to be implanted by education. She must understand this so fully as to feel that if she finds that her children

The Family and it's Members
by Anna Garlin Spencer
The mother-instinct of protection of offspring, of care of weakness and of sacrifice for the young, came to high power before the human was reached in the scale of beings. It must never be forgotten that humbler sisters set the fashion of motherhood's

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
by Mary Wollstonecraft
Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love; for we have not, like the French two terms (L'amour propre, L'amour de soi meme) to distinguish the pursuit of a natural and reasonable desire, from the ignorant calculations

Week One, Day One
Hannah Keeley's Total Mom Makeover: The Six-Week Plan to Completely Transform Your Home, Health, Family and Life
by Hannah Keeley
Motherhood is not what it used to be. Today you are required to balance everything from parenting to homemaking to working - and no doubt you still want to look great, stay healthy, and whip up a few batches of chocolate chip cookies on the side.

We Wuz Robbed
The Imperfect Mom: Candid Confessions of Mothers Living in the Real World
by Therese J. Borchard
The supermom is a suburban legend. At some point, we've all forgotten to pack a lunch, yelled at our kids, or been late to soccer practice. This book is for every mom who has ever gotten angry at being interrupted from a consecutive five hours of sleep

Ten Days - Ten Years
Unraveled: One Woman's Story of Moving Out, Moving On, and Becoming a Better Mother
by Maria Housden
As a twelve-year-old girl, Maria Housden's vision of a happy future included everything that society expects girls to yearn for: a home, a husband, and, of course, children. Life had other plans.

Don't Cry Over Spilt Guilt
Momfidence!: An Oreo Never Killed Anybody and Other Secrets of Happier Parenting
by Paula Spencer
Lose the Guilt, Love Your Instincts. If the latest 'breakthrough' child-development theory, parenting technique, or child-appropriate diet makes you worry or groan (or just want to lie down for a nap), it's time to make way for Momfidence! Paula Spencer,

Giver of Life
Black Mothers: Songs of Praise and Celebration
by Kristin Clark Taylor
Former USA Today columnist Kristin Clark Taylor has put together a love song to African American mothers. As she writes in the Introduction: 'to any mother who ever kissed a scraped knee; broke up a playground fight; spent part of the rent money

Entertaining and Men Behaving Badly at Dinner Parties
And One More Thing...; A Mother's Advice on Life, Love, and Lipstick
by Joan Caraganis Jakobson
When daughters strike out on their own, they usually know the basics: never answer the door without asking who's there, always write thank-you notes, don't wear a T-shirt that says 'Beer is Food' to a job interview.

A Little Mayo with the Momwich
If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother
by Anita Renfroe
There are certain things you start to say when you reach a certain age (like, 'What is with all that noise on the radio?' and 'Young people used to have manners in this country.').

The Beginning
Mothering Without A Map: The Search for the Good Mother Within
by Kathryn Black
The journey toward motherhood for any woman begins with conception. But whose? Did my maternal path begin when my first child was conceived? The casual answer to that question is yes.