Motherhood

The Maternal Advantage
If You've Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything
by Ann Crittenden
Psychologists have known for some time that the female brain is different from the male. Women tend to gather in more details of the world around them, and integrate that data into a more holistic picture of the world.

Leadership Begins at Home
If You've Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything
by Ann Crittenden
Most mothers and fathers know in their bones that raising a child is the hardest job they've ever had. And, even if child-rearing is not that difficult for some, it is certainly comparable to dealing with adults, whether they are superiors, clients

The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes
by Mary Eberstadt
The argument of the pages that follow could scarcely be more controversial to many contemporary readers. Of all the explosive subjects in America today, none is as cordoned off, as surrounded by rhetorical land mines, as the question of whether

A Thin Soup of Resources
Mother Nurture
by Rick Hanson, Ph.D., Jan Hanson, M.S., L.Ac., Ricki Pollycove, M.D., M.H.S.
If the demands on a person grow, her resources should grow as well. We're sure that one sort of resource has increased since you had children: the emotional fulfillment of being a mother. But otherwise, have your resources grown since your baby was born?

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.

What Are Your Expectations?
Comeback Moms
by Monica Samuels, J. C. Conklin
In addition to analyzing why you're really quitting, think carefully about what your expectations are when you do quit. Make sure that you aren't expecting too much from the experience, because if you do and you're disappointed, your family will suffer.

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

Past, Present, Future, Part 2
Every Mother Is a Daughter
by Perri Klass, M.D., Sheila Solomon Klass
Sheila: You give me too much credit, Perr. I didn't invent myself. I stumbled upon myself. Desperation and fear started me as a child thinking that I had to escape my surroundings and drove me out of my parents' house and into my life.

Past, Present, Future
Every Mother Is a Daughter
by Perri Klass, M.D., Sheila Solomon Klass
Perri: This book is about mothers, but I would like to begin with my father. Since his death, sudden and unexpected, in 2001, I have been carrying on a variety of conversations with him. Some of these take place in my car when I am driving.

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.

Managing Anger
Mommy Mantras
by Bethany E. Casarjian, Ph.D., Diane H. Dillon, Ph.D.
Until I had children, I didn't think I had a temper. Any kind of temper. Pestilence, minor car collisions, my groceries put into someone else's cart after I paid for them, were met with an almost beatific composure.

Author Q&A
The Early Birds
by Jenny Minton
What advice would you pass on to mothers concerned about premature birth or IVF? Infertility, pregnancy, and prematurity are all complex medical conditions. No two cases of infertility are the same, women all experience pregnancy differently, and problems

Prologue
The Early Birds
by Jenny Minton
Sam is breathing like a frog. I show my mother. I tell her, 'I gave birth to a frog.' She says, 'They are going to be beautiful boys.' And she adds, 'But it's good you can say how you feel.' I tell the nurse that Sam appears to be heaving more than Gus.

At A Glance: Demographics
Getting It Right
by Laraine T. Zappert, Ph.D.
Prior to the late 1970s, each graduating class at highly selective business and professional schools like Stanford included less than a handful of women. One of the women who graduated in the early 1970s recalled her admissions interview

The Stanford Survey
Getting It Right
by Laraine T. Zappert, Ph.D.
A common assumption among psychologists is that we all research our own neuroses, and I clearly am no exception. Since the 1980s at Stanford, the primary focus of both my clinical and research work has been the stresses inherent in the lives of working

Watching Star Trek with Dylan, Part 2
Between Mothers and Sons
by Patricia Stevens
So, what can I do to nurture my son, this practically alien being? One thing I can do is let him watch Star Trek, or what he recognizes in it, I am now sure, is the plain truth about his destiny.

Watching Star Trek with Dylan
Between Mothers and Sons
by Patricia Stevens
Upstairs on the bridge my husband, the first officer, is at his station cooking up that brand of boxed macaroni and cheese inexplicably yet consistently preferred by the human young, and slicing bananas under the steady gaze of his commanding officer.

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.

Getting Ready to Fall, Part 2
A Better Woman
by Susan Johnson
Meanwhile, my body had its own plans. All the while I was trying to compose a mature intellectual and rational framework in which to answer the question of whether or not to have a child, my body believed it already had the solution.

Getting Ready to Fall
A Better Woman
by Susan Johnson
I was living in Paris then, and my sixtyish, childless painter friend Simone confirmed that this longing first struck the body. 'My own body did not need it,' she said in English, without sentiment or regret. 'You must find out if yours does.'