Parents who are fed up with the pressure to turn their children into star athletes, concert violinists, and merit scholars-all at once!-finally have an alternative: the world of Slacker Moms, where kids learn to do things for themselves and parents can cut themselves some slack; where it's perfectly all right to do less, have less, and spend less. Slacker moms say "No" to parenting philosophies that undermine parents'-and children's-ability to think for themselves. They say "Yes" to saving their money and time by opting out of the parenting competition. And they say "Hell, Yes!" to having a life of their own, knowing it makes them better parents.In this witty and insightful book, author Muffy Mead-Ferro reflects on her experience of growing up on a ranch in Wyoming, where parenting-by necessity-was more hands-off, people "made do" with what they had, and common sense and generational wisdom prevailed. We should all take her sane lead!

Confessions of a Slacker Mom

Humor & Entertainment

Mead-Ferro, Muffy

Humor

Da Capo Lifelong

A warm and reassuring resource, Your Pregnancy: Every Woman's Guide offers short, clear explanations of what a woman needs to know about her pregnancy. From nutritional tips, such as the most important pregnancy vitamins, to explanations of pre-natal tests, such as ultrasound and amniocentesis, Your Pregnancy covers the most essential pregnancy questions. With helpful illustrations and a detailed glossary of terms, this is the perfect guide for any woman preparing for the birth of a new baby.

Your Pregnancy: Every Woman's Guide (Your Pregnancy Series)

Glade B. Curtis

Judith Schuler

Parenting & Relationships

Your Pregnancy Week By Week

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Dr Glade B Curtis and Judith Schuler

Women's Health

The Buddha. Rene Descartes. Emily Dickinson. Greta Garbo. Bobby Fischer. J. D. Salinger: Loners, all-along with as many as 25 percent of the world's population. Loners keep to themselves, and like it that way. Yet in the press, in films, in folklore, and nearly everywhere one looks, loners are tagged as losers and psychopaths, perverts and pity cases, ogres and mad bombers, elitists and wicked witches. Too often, loners buy into those messages and strive to change, making themselves miserable in the process by hiding their true nature-and hiding from it. Loners as a group deserve to be reassessed-to claim their rightful place, rather than be perceived as damaged goods that need to be "fixed." In Party of One Anneli Rufus - a prize-winning, critically acclaimed writer with talent to burn - has crafted a morally urgent, historically compelling tour de force-a long-overdue argument in defense of the loner, then and now. Marshalling a polymath's easy erudition to make her case, assembling evidence from every conceivable arena of culture as well as interviews with experts and loners worldwide and her own acutely calibrated analysis, Rufus rebuts the prevailing notion that aloneness is indistinguishable from loneliness, the fallacy that all of those who are alone don't want to be, and wouldn't be, if only they knew how.

Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto

Self-Help

Rufus, Anneli

Relationships

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