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Parenting bookshelf: what's on yours?

by Sarah Gilbert (Subscribe to Sarah Gilbert's posts)
Oct 6th 2005 9:42AM

Filed under: Media

T.O. Mama over at MUBAR has a post about a big package of books that arrived in the mail… and her love/hate relationship with the to-be-read shelf. You'll have to go over there and check out the picture in all its full-pixeled glory, but there is a lot of good stuff I want on my bookshelf, like Lisa Belkin's Life's Work and Jennifer Margulis' Toddler and a couple of great Anne Lamott novels.

My sister-in-law is finishing up Little Earthquakes and promises to bring it over tomorrow; that will round out my parenting bookshelf along with Good Nights, a guide to the family bed. What's on your parenting bookshelf? Is it a pleasure waiting to happen - or is it hanging over your head?

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12-18-2005 @ 6:50PM

JT Fox said...

I had gotten the obligatory "What To Expect" books but hated them. I have all of the Vicki Iovine "Girlfriends' Guide" books, a few baby name books, "The Jewish Baby Book" by Anita Diamant, and "Parenting the Strong-Willed Child," by Foreman and Long. (The latter was highly recommended by the child psychologist we used last year, and it's pretty good.)

I just read "Goodnight Nobody" and highly recommend it for any mom who loves Susan Isaac novels. Jennifer Weiner rocks my world.

12-18-2005 @ 6:50PM

Ann Adams said...

I used to never be seen without a book; often of this genre. Now, I just don't have time. Fortunately, BB keeps me up to date in the new, improved world of parenting.

I'm serious, folks - you have no idea how helpful all this is.

12-18-2005 @ 6:50PM

suburban misfit said...

"The Three Martini Playdate"
"The Out-of-Sync Child"
"The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun"
"Quirky Kids"
"Driven To Distraction"
"Delivered From Distraction"

12-18-2005 @ 6:50PM

Bonnie said...

I really enjoyed Baby 411 as a comprehensive reference for caring for a baby. My friend, a pediatrician, commented "any book that devotes a whole chapter to baby poop is a good one."

Baby 411 - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1889392200/103-1198364-7168662

Another book I have enjoyed immensely and plan to re-read each year is Too Much of a Good Thing: Raising Children of Character in an Indulgent Age. The author discusses how we need to work to teach our children life lessons, and that even though we have the financial means (our generation more so than our parents') to make their lives easier, that we may be denying them other opportunities to learn and grow which will help them function better as an adult in society. One example is when his daughter forgets to bring her sneakers away to camp for a week. Sure, he could easily buy another pair, or (less easily) ask someone else to drive them up for her, but he decides that it certainly won't kill her to go without them and the daughter learns to accept consequences for her actions - that someone won't always be there to fix her mistakes.

Too Much of a Good Thing - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786886242/103-1198364-7168662

12-18-2005 @ 6:50PM

Gawdessness said...

Love the Faber/Mazlish books:
Siblings W/O Rivalry, How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk etc.

All are based on the teachings of Dr. Haim Ginott.

Still reread them from time to time.

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