Resources

Articles

The articles below were written by Davida (under Deena Solwren) and 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

Blog Posts from the JungPlatform

The Modern Woman’s Divorce Guide

Resolve, the National Infertility Association

Pacific Post Partum Support Society

Books

Books - Changing Roles and Changing Self Image


Facing 30: Women Talk About Constructing a Real Life and Other Scary Rites of Passage
Lauren Dockett


The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing During the Change
Christine Northrup, MD


When Work Doesn’t Work Anymore: Women, Work, and Identity
Elizabeth Perle McKenna


Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
Gail Sheehy


The Silent Passage
Gail Sheehy


Understanding Men’s Passages: Discovering the New Map of Men’s Live
Gail Sheehy

Books - Parenting/Transitioning to a Family


NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman


The Mother Trip: Hip Mama’s Guide to Staying Sane in the Chaos of Motherhood
Ariel Gore


When Partners Become Parents: The Big Life Change for Couples
Cowan and Cowan


The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
Madeline Levine


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

Books - Post Partum


Parenting from the Inside Out
Siegel, Hartzell


The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two
Sears and Sears


Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
Judith Warner


This Isn’t What I Expected
Karen Kleiman and Valerie Raskin


Beyond the Blues
Shoshana Bennett and Pec Indman

Books - Pregnancy



What to Expect When You’re Expecting
Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel

 



Pregnancy: The Psychological Experience
Libby Colman, Ph.D.

 

Books - Couples


The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
John Gottman Ph.D. and Nan Silver

Books - Menopause


The Silent Passage
Gail Sheehy

 

Books - Other

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Oh, The Places You’ll Go
Dr. Suess


The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler


Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
Epstein


Going to Pieces without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness
Epstein


The Deepest Blue: How Women Face and Overcome Depression
Lauren Dockett

Books - Adult Mother/Daughter Relationships


Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable and Volatile Relationship
Christine Ann Lawson

 


You’re Wearing That? : Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation
Deborah Tannen

 

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