Resources

Articles

The articles below were written by Davida published in the Neighborhood Parents Network (NPN) as feature articles, and then a regular column, until the paper stopped publication:

Websites

Books

Pregnancy

What to Expect When You’re Expecting
Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel

Pregnancy: The Psychological Experience
Libby Colman, Ph.D.

Post Partum

Beyond the Blues
Shoshana Bennett and Pec Indman

This Isn’t What I Expected
Karen Kleiman and Valerie Raskin

Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
Judith Warner

The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two
Sears and Sears

Parenting from the Inside Out
Siegel, Hartzell

Parenting/Transitioning to a Family

And Baby Makes Three: The Six-Step Plan for Preserving Marital Intimacy and Rekindling Romance After Baby Arrives
John Gottman Ph.D. and Julie Schwartz Gottman

The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
Madeline Levine

When Partners Become Parents: The Big Life Change for Couples
Cowan and Cowan

The Mother Trip: Hip Mama’s Guide to Staying Sane in the Chaos of Motherhood
Ariel Gore

NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman

Couples

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
John Gottman Ph.D. and Nan Silver

Menopause

The Silent Passage
Gail Sheehy

Adult Mother/Daughter Relationships

You’re Wearing That? : Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation
Deborah Tannen

Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable and Volatile Relationship
Christine Ann Lawson

Changing Roles and Changing Self-Image

Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
Gail Sheehy

Understanding Men’s Passages: Discovering the New Map of Men’s Live
Gail Sheehy

The Silent Passage
Gail Sheehy

Facing 30: Women Talk About Constructing a Real Life and Other Scary Rites of Passage
Lauren Dockett

When Work Doesn’t Work Anymore: Women, Work, and Identity
Elizabeth Perle McKenna

The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing During the Change
Christine Northrup, MD

Other

The Deepest Blue: How Women Face and Overcome Depression
Lauren Dockett

Going to Pieces without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness
Epstein

Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
Epstein

The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler

Oh, The Places You’ll Go
Dr. Suess