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Title: Child of Mine: Original Essays on Becoming a Mother by Christina Baker Kline ISBN: 0-385-33302-1 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 10 November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: My Favorite Gift For First-Time Moms
Comment: This is an absolutely wonderful collection of first-time-mother experiences, and I've given this book as a gift to many of my new-mom friends. I ordered this as part of a batch of mommy books from Amazon without thinking too much (impulse buy), but it quickly became my favorite...so much so that I bought a few extra copies as loaners and gifts so I'd always have my own on hand. Much to my delight, I found an essay by Sarah Bird, my favorite writer, but almost every story is meaningful and relevant. This group of writers brings you into the community of mothers, across age, race, and income. The introduction is also worth reading, because it explains how first time mothers really hunger to find out whether their experiences are unique and isolating, or universal. We want to read other accounts not so much to benchmark ourselves but to reassure ourselves that the sometimes overwhelming and exhilarating feelings of first-time motherhood are normal and shared.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent real-life stories
Comment: I was searching for a book to give a friend who was curious about motherhood and I read this all the way through before giving it to her. Her comment was,"I don't know if this makes it easier or harder to make the decision to have a child!" I agree wholeheartedly - as the mother of a 2 year old the stories in this book are a synchonicity of awe, wonder, exhaustion, frustration and many of the other emotions that occur during the first year of parenthood. I am ordering another copy for a friend who has a five year old and is due to have a baby in August. I think this will be a great refresher...
Rating: 1
Summary: One star is not low enough.
Comment: This book is quite possibly the worst expression of motherhood that I have ever run across. I am the mother of a 9 month old baby and have read more than my share of child rearing and motherhood books. These essays all seem to be geared towards the negative and selfish aspects of the writers lives. Pregnancy and childbirth are portrayed as predominantly negative experiences which will infringe on the otherwise productive lives of the "mothers" who wrote them. Fathers and doctors are shown as incompetent buffoons who are not necessary or even conducive to a good pregnancy/birthing experience. In fact, in many of the essays pregnancy is expressed as a weakness that the women finally succumb to, not as the precious gift that it is. As a woman and as a mother I was wholy offended and put off by this derogatory and negative view of pregnancy and children. I would whole heartedly not recommend this book for anyone, most especially for those who do not have practical experience with pregnancy and their own children.
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Title: Mothers Who Think : Tales Of Reallife Parenthood by Camille Peri, Kate Moses ISBN: 0671774689 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other) Minute of It by Andrea J. Buchanan ISBN: 1580050824 Publisher: Seal Press (WA) Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Big Rumpus: A Mother's Tale from the Trenches by Ayun Halliday ISBN: 1580050719 Publisher: Seal Press (WA) Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year by Anne Lamott ISBN: 044990928X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Room to Grow: Twenty-Two Writers Encounter the Pleasures and Paradozes of Raising Young Children by Christina Baker Kline ISBN: 0312263848 Publisher: Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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