Motherhood

It's About Time: New Times, New Talk
Venus in Blue Jeans: Why Mothers and Daughters Need to Talk About Sex
by Nathalie Bartle, Ed.D., Susan Abel Lieberman, Ph.D.
When my children were old enough to entrust with a house key, they sometimes arrived home from school before I returned from work. At least one day a week, though, I would try to be there when they rushed through the front door, hoping they'd share some

The Art of Being Smart
Oh Boy! Mothers Tell the Truth About Raising Teen Sons
by Maryann Bucknum Brinley
A team of researchers at the University of Richmond in Virginia led by psychology professor Craig Kinsley has discovered that motherhood can make us smarter and may even help prevent dementia. Honestly, I love these kinds of studies.

You're on Your Way
The Working Mother's Guide to Life: Strategies, Secrets, and Solutions
by Linda Mason
Different Approaches to Working Motherhood. Petronila, my friend in rural western Kenya, sits in the shade under a small tree in a congested and lively marketplace in a small hillside village. It is hot and dry.

Having a Child Changes Your Life
The Gift of Motherhood: 10 Truths for Every Mother
by Cherie Carter-Scott, Ph.D.
Your reality is transformed the moment your child arrives. Welcome to motherhood: the single most profound and transformative rite of passage a woman can experience.

Afterword to the Anchor Edition
Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood
by Naomi Wolf
The book you have read is the frankest possible account I could write about the struggles-as well as the joys-of adjusting to pregnancy and new motherhood. Misconceptions ends with the birth of my first baby, and an epilogue describes the birth of

The Virgin Bride
To Hell with All That
by Caitlin Flanagan
I do not plan to have another wedding; I'm standing pat at two. But I must confess that after spending a pleasant hour gazing at the photographs in a recent crop of wedding guides, I began to feel a bit of the old itch.

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 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.').

Right before the devastation
72 Hour Hold
by Bebe Moore Campbell
Right before the devastation, I had a good day. God should have pulled my coattail then and there: “Enjoy this while you can, honey, because Satan beat me in a poker game last night, and he's claiming you and yours sometime soon.”

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.

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

Part 1
A Mother is a Gift
by Joanne Davis
Mother. Take a minute, if you will, and meditate on the word. Let it filter through your mind and sink into your consciousness. If the experience unleashes a flood tide of memories, don't be surprised.

Baby Love
My Girl: Adventures with a Teen in Training
by Karen Stabiner
In My Girl, Karen Stabiner tells the story of one girl's journey into adolescence, and of her own efforts to find a way to guide her daughter through life's real thickets-not the imaginary, inflamed ones we hear so much about.

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 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

Moms, Take Heart

From 'queen bees' to 'gamma girls' to the 'odd girl out,' adolescent girls are all over the news. But whether a girl is popular or struggling to fit in, outgoing or reserved, her mother worries about how she is coping with her new, often scary, teenage

Quitting
Comeback Moms
by Monica Samuels, J. C. Conklin
Maybe you just got the news that you're expecting or maybe you're a veteran mom with middle school-aged kids at home, it doesn't matter where you are on the mom continuum, at some point you'll be confronted with the burning question

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.

Sons as Teachers
Between Mothers and Sons
by Patricia Stevens
It is the late 1980s, an unseasonably hot Saturday afternoon in May, with only a few weeks left in the school year. A water war is about to erupt in my backyard. Six boys ranging in age from ten to thirteen are dividing into two opposing groups.