Is a new mom just a set of breast milk-delivery devices? Excuse me for getting the wrong impression. It’s easy to forget a mom comes with a head and other features that sometime complicate the equation of what’s best for baby to say nothing of mom. It’s easy to forget …
What are the best parenting books of 2011? If you’re looking to potty train your toddler or get your tween to clean her room, I’m sure there’s a popular how-to somewhere but I can’t name it. I don’t know whether the Tiger mom’s hyper vigilance will make your kids crave birthday parties and tv. Never read her whole Battle Hymn. In …
Read any worthwhile parenting books this year? Any besides those by Tiger moms or celebrity moms or baby whisperers. It goes without saying how delightful and entertaining those reads can be…. cough, cough, guffaw. Wish I’d read more but did manage to find a few that rose above the usual pile of how-tos/what-to-expect/i’m-such-a-lousy-but totally hip-mom tomes. Are they the most …
Jong’s 1973 Fear of Flying. Photo from Wikipedia Parenting just got a bit saner this weekend but unfortunately not exactly thanks to scientific evidence. Breastfeeding round the clock, washing cloth diapers, making baby food, sleeping with baby, wearing baby, nurturing non-stop – such is “the prison” of modern motherhood according to famed feminist and writer Erica Jong …
Take those dusty parenting guides to Goodwill. Tear yourself away from the Mommy Blog of the Moment… Here are my picks for the best parenting books of 2009. You won’t find most of them in the parenting section but that’s true of some of the best evidence-based discussions related to children these days. Nor will …