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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:

  • Kids’ Responses to Questions About Family
  • Friends Watching Kids
  • Post-Partum Adjustment
  • Kicking and Tantrum in a Car
  • Keeping the Holidays Happy
  • Mother Irritants
  • Sex and Breasts

Websites

  • The Modern Woman’s Divorce Guide
  • Resolve, the National Infertility Association
  • Pacific Post Partum Support Society
  • MedEdPPD

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

“Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.”

— Jacqueline Bisset

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