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(More customer reviews)If you're OK with feeling guilty about anyone besides you or your spouse caring for your children before they go off to college then this book is for you.
I recently left work to stay at home with my 1 year old baby. I had hoped this book would help me with perspective on leaving my career and finding fulfillment and balance in staying home. Instead this book was full of ridiculous biased views. The author cites several examples of parents who left their children with caregivers/daycares/babysitters only to find their children were raped, abused, or belittled. This book details very specific and disturbing examples which are extrapolated to all caregivers. Other extreme views in this book: pets are bad; buy second-hand clothes to save money; don't think about going back to work until your kids are well into teen years or you are selfish and destroying their future; get your man to help with chores by using sex -- Quote p. 109: "So how do we get our man to help? Sex, of course." Not helpful at all. FYI - the author, Christine Conners, has also written a book called "Lipsmackin' Vegetarian Backpackin'." Uh, OK. Wish I knew this before I bought the book.
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Psychotherapist, mother, and author Christine Conners never doubts that the decision of a professional woman to stay home with her young children is the right one. In From High Heels to Bunny Slippers, she supports their decision to personally care for their children with compelling new research on childcare and its potential negative effects on young children, as well as her own firsthand experience as a co-founder of the NASA child development centers. Unlike previous books aimed at this growing readership, Conners recognizes and addresses mothers' adjustment problems that, like any major life event, arise from the decision to quit your job and stay home. She offers tools and strategies that gently lead the professional woman from the challenge of her work world into the new challenges of parenting full-time. She sympathizes, as a stay-at-home mother herself, with the immediate frustrations of loss of personal identity, financial difficulties, depression, and marital discord. As a mental health professional, she offers her proven techniques for forming a strong new identity as a parent when you leave your career, for addressing financial woes through part-time work and money-saving strategies, for overcoming social isolation, depression, anger, and stress, and for finding personal fulfillment during this special time with your young children.
