The Mother Dance: How Children Change Your Life: Amazon.de: Harriet Lerner: Englische Bücher

Gebundene Ausgabe: 336 Seiten
Verlag: Harper (21. April 1998)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0060187689
ISBN-13: 978-0060187682
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 23,6 x 15,2 x 2,8 cm

Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.5 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (8 Kundenrezensionen)

Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.388.200 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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How does motherhood change you? Who or what do you become when you become a mother? "We can't begin to know what our children will evoke in us until we have them," says psychologist and psychotherapist Dr. Harriet Lerner, author of the bestselling The Dance of Anger. Lerner set out to write a book on parenting, and ended up with a thoughtful and honest book focusing on the experience of being a mother--a woman's experiences, needs, and changes as she travels through the trials and pleasures of pregnancy, birth, power struggles, guilt, anxiety, relationship challenges, sibling struggles, and separation. Filled with personal stories and case studies, The Mother Dance offers mothers-to-be a guide for the road ahead, and women who are already mothers will recognize their own dilemmas and situations, and gain clarity about their experiences. Throughout, Lerner is wise, personal, and truthful about her own failings. This book is a welcome addition to the recent discourse on the mothering experience. --Ericka Lutz

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A popular psychotherapist writes with grace and striking candor about what it is like to be a mother. Lerner (The Dance of Deception, 1993, etc.) has two sons, both now grown and out of the housebut still friends with their mother and father, and with each other. That is no small accomplishment, and while Lerner gives herself and her husband (also a psychologist) appropriate credit for what they did right, she also looks back regretfully on what she did wrong. ``Readers . . . [of] my other books may be surprised to learn that I can behave so badly with my own children,'' she writes, a confession that is designed to give comfort to every mother who suffers from hindsight guilt. Using anecdotes from her own experience and that of colleagues and friends, Lerner looks at issues of control (``we are not in control of what happens to our children''), at the decision to have children (``a leap of faith''), at how the reality of the baby in the bassinet at home affects the relationship with a spouse (it changes, not always for the worse, but it changes). She also describes the wild extremes of emotion that many new mothers entertain, from ``intense elation'' to murderous rage, and roller coasters of guilt and fear. A self-styled ``big worrier,'' Lerner also offers advice on how to finesse worrying, power struggles, and such common mothering traps as food, sex, dress codes, and raising sons to be ``mama's boys.'' How siblings develop relationships with each other and the intricate networks of extended families are other subjects she tackles. Entertaining and revealing. Lerner's committed readers will enjoy and perhaps be reconciled to their own parenting styles from this view of her as a mother who is sometimes irrational, sometimes wise, but who loves her children ``beyond words.'' -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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I've been laughing outloud! 17. November 1999

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As a working, mother in the mental health field I was so please to read that Harriet has gone through the same termoils I have. It seems so trivial when I hear her recounts. What a guilt trip we put on ourselves. While reading you feel like she could be sitting in your kitchen talking over a cup of diet soda. I have recommended this book to so many new mothers and older mothers that seem so concerned about doing the "right" thing. Dr. Lerner reminds us there isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to parent.

Lena Sheffield, M.S.Ed., CAP

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Initially intriguing, then somewhat tedious 24. Oktober 1999

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When I initially recieved this book, I devoured it, so happy to find a book that addresses my feelings as a new mother. However, the author frequently refers to the ideas of other experts and authors, and fails to provide her opinion with respect to same. I preferred hearing her ideas and opinions, and became disenchanted when the book began to read more like a compilation of other authors'/experts' theories, especially since I had already identified with the author's voice, and was unfamiliar with these other individuals. The book is certainly easy reading, but my enthusiasm for reading it had diminished by the middle of the book, so that it has now become a chore to complete.

Not What I Expected 19. Juli 1999

I bought this book because I thought it was about how life is different before and after you have children. It's not about that. This is a good parenting book from a feminist's perspective, but didn't give me the insight I was looking for about how my life might change if I decide to reproduce.