The Mother-Daughter Project

Author: SuEllen Hamkins
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440623198
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
Few things are more meaningful—or more complicated—than mother-daughter relationships. This helpful parenting guide helps moms navigate their relationships with their daughters to create strong ties and a close, respectful connection that will last a lifetime. SuEllen Hamkins, MD, and Renée Schultz, MA, originally created the Mother-Daughter Project with other women in their community in the hopes of strengthening their bonds with their then seven-year-old girls. The group met regularly to speak frankly about such issues as friendships and aggression, puberty, body image, drugs, and sexuality. The results were amazing: confident, assertive teenage girls with strong self-images and close ties to their moms. Equally important, the mothers navigated their own concerns about adolescence with integrity and grace. From their dedication and efforts arose The Mother-Daughter Project, an incredibly useful parenting handbook that details the success of the Project’s groundbreaking model, providing mothers with a road map for staying close with their own daughters through adolescence and beyond.

The Fatherless Daughter Project

Author: Denna Babul RN
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 159463369X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
“This groundbreaking work will give voice to an enormous population of women who are struggling to understand themselves in the face of their fathers’ absence.” —Claire Bidwell Smith, author of The Rules of Inheritance and After This When Motherless Daughters was published 20 years ago, it unleashed a tsunami of healing awareness. When Denna Babul and Karin Smithson couldn't find the equivalent book for fatherlessness, The Fatherless Daughter Project was born. The book will set fatherless women on the path to growth and fulfillment by helping them to understand how their loss has impacted their lives. A father is supposed to provide a sense of security and stability. Losing a father comes with particular costs that vary depending on the way he left and how old a girl was when she lost him. Drawing on interviews with over 5000 women who became fatherless due to death, divorce, neglect, and outright abandonment, the authors have found that fatherless daughters tend to push their emotions underground. These issues in turn become distinct patterns in their relationships as adult women and they often can't figure out why. Delivered with compassion and expertise, this book allows readers support and understanding they never had when they first needed it, and it encourages the conversation to continue.

Adeline Mowbray, Or The Mother and Daughter

Author: Amelia Opie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description

The Mother-Daughter Book Club Rev Ed.

Author: Shireen Dodson
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062119877
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
Newly revised and updated, the 10th anniversary edition of the classic story of how a group of mothers and daughters transformed and enriched their relationships through books Combining the practical with the personal, The Mother-Daughter Book Club tells the story of 10 mothers and their preteen daughters and how their relationships were enriched through a monthly reading club. With step-by-step guidelines, stories, anecdotes, reading lists, sample themes and related activities, it offers practical instructions for starting a book club while encouraging mothers and daughters to learn to talk openly with one another. At a key stage of their daughter's development, mothers will find a hopeful antidote to depression, eating disorders, self-destructive behavior and other problems facing adolescent girls. Most important, The Mother-Daughter Book Club shows that reading, learning and spending time together helps girls build self-esteem. With suggested reading lists from authors and experts ranging from Kaye Gibbons, Joyce Carol Oates and Tipper Gore to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Beth Winship and Ann Martin, The Mother-Daughter Book Club has the potential to inspire whole networks of reading clubs nationwide.

Mother Daughter

Author: Elaine O'Neil
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 150

Book Description
Through daily portraits, this five-year project charts the physical and emotional changes of two women at the opposite ends of the spectrum. Award-winning photographer, Elaine O'Neil, captures these moments with her daughter in their shared experience. Through the lens of the camera, these moments have come to define the years of their shared experience.

Love, Ellen

Author: Betty DeGeneres
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062276107
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247

Book Description
"Mom, I'm gay." With three little words, gay children can change their parents' lives forever. Yet at the same times it's a chance for those parents to realize nothing, really, has changed at all; same kid, same life, same bond of enduring love. Twenty years ago, during a walk on a Mississippi beach, Ellen DeGeneres spoke those simple, powerful words to her mother. That emotional moment eventually brought mother and daughter closer than ever, but not without a struggle. Coming from a republican family with conservative values, Betty needed time and education to understand her daughter's homosexuality -- but her ultimate acceptance would set the stage for a far more public coming out, one that would change history. In Love, Ellen, Betty DeGeneres tells her story; the complicated path to acceptance and the deepening of her friendship with her daughter; the media's scrutiny of their family life; the painful and often inspiring stories she's heard on the road as the first non-gay spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaigns National Coming Out Project. With a mother's love, clear minded common sense, and hard won wisdom, Betty DeGeneres offers up her own very personal memoir to help parents understand their gay children, and to help sons and daughters who have been rejected by their families feel less alone.

Mothering and Daughtering

Author: Eliza Reynolds
Publisher:
ISBN: 1604078855
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Two lifesaving books in one! Revolutionary tools and insights for mothers-turn the book over for powerful teachings for teen daughters.

Much Ado About Anne

Author: Heather Vogel Frederick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416982698
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
The moms have invited Becca Chadwick and her mother to join the club--and their daughters are devastated. Meanwhile, Jess finds out that her family may lose Half Moon Farm.

Mother Daughter Widow Wife

Author: Robin Wasserman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982139501
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Includes book club favorites reader's guide.

My Mother's Daughter

Author: Perdita Felicien
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385689985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A phenomenal, human story. . . . I could not put this book down." —CLARA HUGHES An instant national bestseller, this raw and affecting memoir is the story of a mother and daughter who beat the odds together. Decades before Perdita Felicien became a World Champion hurdler running the biggest race of her life at the 2004 Olympics, she carried more than a nation's hopes—she carried her mother Catherine's dreams. In 1974, Catherine is determined and tenacious, but she's also pregnant with her second child and just scraping by in St. Lucia. When she meets a wealthy white Canadian family vacationing on the island, she knows it's her chance. They ask her to come to Canada to be their nanny—and she accepts. This was the beginning of Catherine's new life: a life of opportunity, but also suffering. Within a few years, she would find herself pregnant a third time—this time in her new country with no family to support her, and this time, with Perdita. Together, in the years to come, mother and daughter would experience racism, domestic abuse, and even homelessness, but Catherine's will would always pull them through. As Perdita grew and began to discover her preternatural athletic gifts, she was edged onward by her mother's love, grit, and faith. Facing literal and figurative hurdles, she learned to leap and pick herself back up when she stumbled. This book is a daughter's memoir—a book about the power of a parent's love to transform their child's life.