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Salted with insights and epigrams, the book is argued with bracing honesty and flashes of authentic wisdom[an] excellent Solomon, The New York Times Book Review
[A] richly woven, entertaining, enlightening, wrenching and funny Washington Post
The instant New York Times bestseller that the Christian Science Monitor declared an important book, much the way The Feminine Mystique was, because it offers parents a common language, an understanding that theyre not alone.
Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. But almost none have thought to ask: What are the effects of children on their parents?
In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior analyzes the many ways children reshape their parents lives, whether its their marriages, their jobs, their habits, their hobbies, their friendships, or their internal senses of self. She argues that changes in the last half century have radically altered the roles of todays mothers and fathers, making their mandates at once more complex and far less clear.
Recruiting from a wide variety of sourcesin history, sociology, economics, psychology, philosophy, and anthropologyshe dissects both the timeless strains of parenting and the ones that are brand new, and then brings her research to life in the homes of ordinary parents around the country. The result is an unforgettable series of family portraits, starting with parents of young children and progressing in later chapters to parents of teens. Through lively and accessible storytelling, Senior follows these mothers and fathers as they wrestle with some of parenthoods deepest vexationsand luxuriate in some of its finest rewards.
Meticulously researched yet imbued with emotional intelligence, All Joy and No Fun makes us reconsider some of our cultures most basic beliefs about parenthood, all while illuminating the profound ways children deepen and add purpose to our lives. By focusing on parenthood, rather than parenting, the book is original and essential reading for mothers and fathers of todayand tomorrow.
Author: Jennifer Senior
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 01/20/2015
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780062072245
Language: English
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