An edition of Breaking the Good Mom Myth (2006)

Breaking the Good Mom Myth

Every Mom's Modern Guide to Getting Past Perfection, Regaining Sanity, and Raising Great Kids

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An edition of Breaking the Good Mom Myth (2006)

Breaking the Good Mom Myth

Every Mom's Modern Guide to Getting Past Perfection, Regaining Sanity, and Raising Great Kids

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As a psychotherapist, parent educator and parent coach, Alyson Schafer has worked with a great many mothers who, in the quest to be a "good mother" have ended up on the door step of despair. Alyson is a forty-something, suburbanite, working-mother of two and can speak to these issues both personally and professionally. This book explains the psycho-social phenomena of how each person creates their own unique "good mother myth" and then examines why these myths are not only faulty, but could in fact lead to poor parenting, marital disaster and individual crisis. Her years of educating parents around these concepts afford Alyson the skill to take complex ideas and explain them to a lay audience in a compelling and easy to understand way. Capitalizing on the need to present parents with information in an easy to digest format, the book is presented as a series of personal stories, each highlighting a common parenting myth. This format will appeal to tired parents who have little time and energy for "academia". Instead, readers learn by taking a voyeuristic peek into the private family lives of the book's characters. Readers can identify with the fictitious parents and coaching clients in the stories and see first hand how the characters ' life experiences shaped their unique "good mother myths" and how these myths create conflict in their lives. The author offers up ideas for how the character can reject her current thinking and adopt a more useful outlook to improve her situation. The story arc allows readers to identify and then project how their parenting may be unknowingly going off the rails. The goal of this book is to provide parents with some basic education and a means of self-discovery. Readers uncover their own good mother myths and are given an eye-opening glimpse into potential issues to challenge their thinking. A great sense of empowerment is restored as mothers become better able to resist the pulls of their personal and cultural myths, and instead begin parenting with greater intention and in ways that are more suitable to proper child guidance.The EPUB format of this title may not be compatible for use on all handheld devices.

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Breaking the Good Mom Myth
2014, HarperCollins Publishers
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Breaking the Good Mom Myth
2010, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Breaking the Good Mom Myth
2008, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Library of Congress
HQ759 .S2736 2006, HQ759.S275 2006

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Open Library
OL7597656M
Internet Archive
breakinggoodmomm0000scha
ISBN 10
0470837438
ISBN 13
9780470837436
LCCN
2007360455
OCLC/WorldCat
189028648
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4367485
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