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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Mother Shock: Tales from the First Year and Beyond -- Loving Every (Other) Minute of It

Mother Shock: Tales from the First Year and Beyond -- Loving Every (Other) Minute of It

Buchanan, Andrea J.

Paperback

HumorGeneral Parenting

ISBN10: 1580050824
ISBN13: 9781580050821
Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
Published: Mar 1 2003
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.50 Depth: 7.51
Language: English
According to Andrea Buchanan, mother shock is the state in which many new parents exist during those first confusing, chaotic, and often comical years of parenting. It is the clash between expectation and result, theory and reality; a twilight zone of 24-hour-a-day living where life is no longer neatly divided into day and night. It is the stress of trying to acclimate quickly to the immediacy of mothering; of formulating a new conception of oneself, one's role in the family and in the world; of shouldering a fearful new level of responsibility and a new delegation of domestic duties. In this much-needed and delightfully funny collection, Buchanan shares the insight she gains as she moves through the stages of mother shock. From Fear of the Double Stroller and Confessions of a Bottle Feeder to I'm an Idiot and Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Playgroup, Buchanan details the unimaginably difficult and unbelievably rewarding process of becoming a mother. Spanning the first three years of her daughter's life, these amusing ruminations on mothering will strike a chord with every new mother.

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