What Mothers Do: especially when it looks like nothing

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Moms breastfeed even if it’s painful, yes, because breast milk is the best food a child can receive.

What Mothers Do, especially when it looks like nothing

she goes on to have chapters about "being instantly interruptible" and motherly love and the power of comfort and the feeling that you didn't do anything all day... but you did. the book wraps up with chapters on a new mom's relationship with her husband and another about her relationship with her own mother. Because every family situation is unique, there cannot be one single blueprint for being a good mother. Mothers struggle with all kinds of practical difficulties to establish and maintain warm relationships with their children. All cited sources were thoroughly reviewed by our team to ensure their quality, reliability, currency, and validity. The bibliography of this article was considered reliable and of academic or scientific accuracy. Good mothers make mistakes. Good mothers support other mothers when they make mistakes. Good mothers forget to support other mothers when they make mistakes. Know to replace things. Like the toilet paper roll that the child just left sitting on top of the roller. Or the paper towels. Or the hand towels. Or the light bulbs in the bathroom burnt out. Or the pencils that are now broken. Or the markers. Or anything. Moms know.The author runs discussion groups for mothers and comments from mothers who attend the groups are regularly quoted throughout the book. This means the book feels a bit like being a fly on the wall at one of their meetings, which is really helpful when many new mothers don’t have opportunities to talk about their experience with other mothers. I’m sure that any parent of a young baby will be able to relate to at least some of the mothers whose words are included in the book. Good mothers know when they need a break and take one. Good mothers know when they need a break, but can’t always take one. Good mothers don’t always know when they need a break, and then beat themselves up for saying or doing things all good mothers do when they need a break and don’t get one. A mother’s ears and eyes hear and see everything. They also have a computer-like memory for all the good (and some of the bad) that came your way. It’s nice to have someone with whom you can reminisce about your whole life. We also need to be reminded that moms who make mistakes or different choices than we do, or who are in different life circumstances than we are, are also good mothers.

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Good mothers work outside the home because they have to, because they want to, because they want their kids to know that women can participate fully in the working world, because it’s the best choice for their families.Miller, A. (2008). The drama of the gifted child: The search for the true self. New York: BasicBooks. this is the best "parenting" book i have ever read. it is unique in that the author doesn't tell you what you should do. instead the book is all about the things mothers do that frequently do not even have an adequate vocabulary to describe them. it is more: you are probably already doing this to some degree and i am just writing it down. Good mothers never yell at their children. Good mothers yell at their children and then apologize for losing their patience. Good mothers yell at their children and then don’t apologize because occasionally kids need to know they’ve crossed a line, dammit. Can take a teen age daughter shopping knowing what to suggest because that won’t be chosen so that the items that you think should be chosen will be chosen. Moms can also with grace redirect away from ridiculous clothing that should never be on a teenagers body. It’s a skill moms. Sometimes we’ll fail. But we do prevail.