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#1 I was as young as six when my mother told me she loved me more than anyone else. I sensed that my safety depended on providing her with emotional support. I was constantly playing family mediator, and I constantly buried my needs and observations.
#2 I was always the good girl who was expected to relieve my mother of her worries, and I felt I could not deviate from...
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#1 The foster parents were trained to use a system of points and levels to modify behavior. The kids would start on a low level and earn points every day for completing various tasks, with which they could then buy a range of privileges.
#2 I made two charts for the children. One for each child. On each chart, I had written three statements. For each successfully completed...
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#1 Until the beginning of the twentieth century, most women breastfed their babies. However, the historical record shows that there have been no shortage of remedies for so-called lactation failure.
#2 In the United States, wet nursing was less common than it was in Europe. By the 1860s or so, mothers found a new option for feeding their babies: homemade formula.
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Book Preview: #1 The Visual Cliff experiment is a test of depth perception and how it is developed. It involves a checkerboard pattern that lies flush under a Plexiglas surface for half of its length, but then slants some four feet, creating the illusion of a sheer drop beneath the solid surface.
#2 The infant's cry is pitched in such a way to get the attention of the adult brain....
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#1 I, too, had a love-at-first-sight romance with a Dutch boy named Bram, who was studying abroad in Florida when we met. We had a modern twist on a traditional romance, with him sending long handwritten letters as well as frequent emails and phone calls.
#2 I was apprehensive about moving to the Netherlands and having a Dutch baby. I wanted my son to have a happy childhood,...
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#1 Estrangement is the condition of being physically and/or emotionally distant from one or more family members, either by choice or at the request or decision of the other. It can be roughly divided into three types: total cutoff, emotional estrangement, and on-and-off estrangement.
#2 Estrangement can be temporary, and it's up to you and your child to make sure it...
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#1 The young female body has changed over time, and today's girls menstruate earlier than they did a century ago. They also have sexual intercourse at a younger age than they did a century ago.
#2 Menarche's new timetable is problematic on two levels. While girls are healthier and mature earlier, there has been no acceleration in their emotional and cognitive skills....
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#1 Helen, after college, spent most of her time with non-government organizations fighting for a better world. She went wherever she was needed, and one day, her mother asked her to come home. Her father had killed himself in the house where she grew up.
#2 When I asked Helen if she had ever thought of herself as resilient, she was taken aback but not confused. She replied...
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#1 This part of the book addresses how verbal abuse limits your potential and how to recover from it. It covers self-help processes to facilitate recovery, including how to discover and recover your greatest gifts, and how to develop a strong sense of self.
#2 Verbal abuse is the attempt to control you. It is important to understand that you are not what you've been...
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#1 I had been abroad for almost two years, working full time as a writer, and I intended to return to my life in Wales, to my stone cottage, my dog, and my Scottish fiancé. But family matters brought me home. I was called a consultant resource person in my job description, and the children were termed behaviorally disordered.
#2 I was coming to the conclusion that I...
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#1 The modern parent struggles to raise children who are not as respectful and disciplined as they were when they were children. Many parents feel as though they are not making any progress with their children, and they are growing more and more frustrated.
#2 The gap between children and adults has never been bigger. We struggle to live up to our image of what parenting...
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#1 The phone rings. I am standing on a stool reaching up for a cookbook that's sitting right in the farthest corner of the top shelf. I have just finished clearing up after the children's dinner, and my foster child, Lily, has announced her decision to become a vegetarian.
#2 I have been working hard to help Lily learn to control her temper and her desire to always be...
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#1 The area where we lived was between the glitzy Hamptons estates and New York City's gritty, disco party culture. We rarely traveled the main roads like the Southern State or Sunrise Highway.
#2 I was always the one who opened the car doors for my mother, since the interior car-door handle was missing. I was always the one who stepped out and pulled the exterior driver's-side...
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#1 This book will teach you how to craft a deeply meaningful apology, and decode apologies that are blame-reversing, ambiguous, and downright mean. We will also be looking at heroic apologies that can open the door to forgiveness and healing in even the most difficult situations.
#2 The simplest apology, I'm sorry, is not always offered. It can be difficult to extend...
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#1 We have to stop overparenting our babies. We have to recognize that they are already learning everything in the early months, and that they are strong and capable. We must provide them with simple, beautiful spaces instead of rushing them to learn everything we think they should.
#2 The Montessori approach can be applied from birth to raise secure babies who are ready to explore...
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#1 I am in a hotel room in Baltimore, the morning after speechifying at a girls' school a few miles away. I wake to receive a text from my eldest son, who is about to become a father. I am about to become a grandmother.
#2 The baby is the homunculus, the small human dreamed up by alchemists hundreds of years ago. He is the beginning of his own story, but he is also a...
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#1 Self-care is a buzzword for moms, but it's not just about spending money on activities. It's about making time for yourself and taking care of yourself. You'll learn what self-care is and how to make it a reality for you.
#2 Self-care is the act of taking care of yourself, and it's important to make it a priority. You'll learn that self-care is more than the big,...
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#1 I remember my grandfather having a heart attack and being extremely despondent about his health and the future of the farm. My mother and father stayed because of this, despite my grandmother dying and my father being offered a job in Bloomington.
#2 My grandfather, who had been a full-time hobby farmer, suddenly became very ill. He was rushed to the hospital, where...
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#1 I was adopted, and my dad wanted me to have clear skin so people wouldn't stare at me. He gave me a Clearasil regimen, which didn't work.
#2 My dad, a biology professor at an Ole Miss, was the academic advisor for the premed football players. He cooked for them, and they would come over for dinner. As I got older, this became less and less, until it was just premed...
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#1 The mother myth is so strong that if your mother was unloving, you'll inevitably run into a wall of resistance from external forces that defend her. You may be met with skepticism, sharp criticism, and counterproductive advice.
#2 The pain of having an unloving mother is intensely lonely and isolating. It is common for even a well-meaning friend or relative to discount...
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