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Your Family, Your Library Podcast: Parenting Myths (Episode 12)
These books help to dispel (or maybe add to) common myths of parenthood and bring different perspectives on challenges caregivers and birthing people face.
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Welcome: A Mo Willems Guide for New Arrivals
2017 by Willems, MoGet this itemFull of myth-dispelling advice about what it's like to be a human...for babies! Ages 0-5
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Impossible
2021 by IsolGet this itemA not-so-gentle reminder for parents that even if you think you know what you're doing, you probably don't. Ages 3-7
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A Beginner's Guide to Being Human
2022 by Esenwine, Matt ForrestGet this itemBecoming a person is hard work! This book encourages empathy, compassion, and kindness as we learn and grow.
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What Do Parents Do? (...When You're Not Home)
2007 by Ransom, Jeanie FranzGet this itemJust as grown-ups have a lot of ideas about what it's like having kids, kids have a lot of ideas about what it's like being a parent. Ages 4-8
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How to Keep House while Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing
2022 by Davis, KCGet this itemAlbeit more about housework than parenting, this breath-of-fresh-air book kindly but firmly helps dispel many deep-seated myths about how to be a good adult.
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The Book You Wish your Parents Had Read: (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did)
2020 by Perry, PhilippaGet this itemRather than being an entirely practical parenting guide, this book focuses on some of the more emotional aspects of child raising, and helps to unpack some of the things we get wrong.
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Now My Heart Is Full: A Memoir
2018 by June, LauraGet this itemA raw, unflinching, and at times shockingly funny memoir of motherhood and daughterhood. This book explores how the first year of Laura June's daughter's life forced her to come to terms with her own mother's tragic legacy and the connective tissue that binds together three generations of women.
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What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
2019Get this itemFrom a critically acclaimed group of writers comes an essay collection about what they wish they could share with their mothers--the hilarious, the painful, the awkward, and the downright messy. Raw and poignant, this is an anthology that will resonate with anyone who's ever had a mother.
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Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
2019 by Oster, EmilyGet this itemAs any new parent knows, there is an abundance of often-conflicting advice hurled at you from doctors, family, friends, and the internet. There's a rule--or three--for everything. But the benefits of these choices can be overstated, and the tradeoffs can be profound...Cribsheet is a thinking parent's guide to the chaos and frequent misinformation of the early years.
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And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
2018 by O'Connell, MeaghanGet this itemO'Connell is a smart twentysomething who treats her pregnancy like a new project, researching and planning. She envisions a natural birth and a year of wholesome breast feeding. But things do not go as she expects.This is not a book about the wonders of motherhood but about the tension between culturally inherited ideals and the realities of lived, bodily experience.
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Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
2003 by Gaskin, Ina MayGet this itemA leading authority on midwifery offers expectant mothers an alternative to hospital birthing, explaining how to create a mutually supportive relationship among birth-care providers and make informed choices.
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All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
2014 by Senior, JenniferGet this itemSenior analyzes how children affect their parents from birth through adolescence, attempting to understand why middle-class millennial parents find this to be a "high-cost/low reward activity."
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