Although your kids may make you want to rip out your hair and scream bloody murder, must parents remain calm, forgiving and extremely patient? Not anymore. Blogs and web sites like True Mom Confessions are revealing intimate truths about parenting and forcing us to reconsider what it means to be a "good parent."
Waldman, branded a "bad mother" after stating she loves her husband more than her children, and Bronson, science writer turned parenting investigator, share their experiences, discuss their perspectives on current distorted parenting habits and explore a new way of thinking about kids.
Bio
Po Bronson
Po Bronson has built a career both as a successful novelist and as a prominent writer of narrative nonfiction.
He has published five books, and he has written for television, magazines, and newspapers, including Time, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and for National Public Radio's Morning Edition.
Currently he is writing regularly for New York magazine in the United States and for The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom.
Po Bronson's book of social documentary, What Should I Do With My Life?, was a #1 New York Times bestseller and remained in the Top 10 for nine months. He has been on Oprah, on every national morning show, and on the cover of five magazines, including Wired and Fast Company. His first novel, Bombardiers, was a #1 bestseller in the United Kingdom. His books have been translated into 18 languages.
Po speaks regularly at colleges and community "town hall" events. He is a founder of The San Francisco Writer's Grotto, a cooperative workspace for about 40 writers and filmmakers. From 1992 to 2006 he was on the Board of Directors of Consortium Book Sales & Distribution. He lives in San Francisco with his family.
Regan McMahon
Regan McMahon is the author of Revolution in the Bleachers: How Parents Can Take Back Family in a World Gone Crazy Over Youth Sports. She is deputy book editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. She is a book critic, feature writer and the children's book editor for the paper, where she has worked for many years.
Formerly a rock critic, editor and feature writer for a California pop music magazine called BAM, she was a French teacher in middle school and high school before she was a journalist. She got her Bachelor of Arts degree in French from the University of California at Berkeley, and went on to get both a teaching credential and a Master of Arts in the Teaching of French from UC Berkeley.
Her husband, Blair Jackson, is also a journalist, a music critic and feature writer as well as an author and biographer. They live in Oakland, California, with their two teenage children.
Ayelet Waldman
Ayelet Waldman is the author of Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace, a collection of essays. Waldman is also the author of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Daughter's Keeper and the Mommy-Track Mysteries. Her essays have appeared in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers.
The film version of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits is now in the post-production, with Don Roos as screenwriter and director, and Natalie Portman in the lead role.
Study of the psychological processes of children. The field is sometimes subsumed under developmental psychology. Data are gathered through observation, interviews, tests, and experimental methods. Principal topics include language acquisition and development, motor skills, personality development, and social, emotional, and intellectual growth. The field began to emerge in the late 19th century through the work of German psychophysiologist William Preyer, American psychologist G. Stanley Hall, and others. In the 20th century the psychoanalysts Anna Freud and Melanie Klein devoted themselves to child psychology, but its most influential figure was Jean Piaget, who described the various stages of childhood learning and characterized children's perceptions of themselves and the world at each stage. See alsoschool psychology.
I don't agree 100% but I am on board with most if it. Not all new but worth revisiting. I would recommend it for young or preparing parents especially. We didn't have this venue as young parents in which to learn and share.
Children learn by imitation. If they watch TV they learn that. They learn from their parent actions. Isn't it Santa Claus a lie? Religion? We lie so that's what they learn. We treat our neighbor badly, we lie to our friends, we lie to ourselves! Should we be the ones being punished (or educated)?
how in hell do you turn the volumn down to the sponsored message??!? thanks to the over blown advert I have just woke my wife :[ I shan't ever be buying those Air Wick products now.
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