Résultats pour "A Confession" dans Parentalité

After author Harlyn Aizley gave birth to her daughter, she watched in unanticipated horror as her partner scooped up the baby and said, "I'm your new mommy!" While they both had worked to find the perfect sperm donor, Aizley had spent nine months carrying the baby and hours in labor, so how could her partner claim to be their child's mommy? Many diapers later, Aizley began to appreciate the complexity of her partner's new role as the other mother. Together, they searched for stories about families like their own.

When you’re pregnant you think: ‘I’m having a baby’, not a person who will eventually catch trains by themselves, share a fridge with ten strangers, go to a festival in Croatia without succumbing to a drug overdose, and one day, bring you a gin and tonic when your mother is dying. We...

This isn't a book detailing all the horrendous abuses I've perpetrated. This book exposes my shame and gives practical solutions on how to stop being an abuser, as well as how to escape the mindset of being a perpetual victim of abuse. I won't just share my experiences or opinions alone. I share...

“In the fairy tales about father–daughter incest—‘The Girl Without Hands,’ ‘Thousand Furs,’ the original ‘Cinderella,’ ‘Donkey Skin,’ and the stories of Saint Dymphna, patron saint of incest survivors—the daughters are all as you would expect them to be: horrified by...

Funny, acutely observed, frighteningly honest and drawing on her own and hundreds of other mum's real experiences, Stephanie Calman serves up the perfect antidote to all those books that tell you that your children must be perfect, and to all those Stepford mums and kids out there who look as if...

Hey there 👋 Welcome to I Confess, I’m a Mess. A podcast hosted by Ayla DeRose for anyone who’s holding it together while quietly falling apart. Here, we share real confessions and honest stories from moms, dads, and anyone just trying to figure it out. We cover the chaos of parenthood, the mental load, marriage and relationships, the everyday stresses no one warns you about, and all the messy in-between moments. No filters, no judgment. Just real people, real feelings, and the truth as it is. If that resonates with you, then you’re in the right place! New episodes every other ...

Adopting or fostering a child brings its own unique set of challenges only another parent facing the same uphill climb could possibly understand. From parenting children with traumatic pasts, to dealing with attachment issues, to raising a children with special needs, it can sometimes be a struggle just getting through the day. Mike Berry knows the loneliness and isolation you can easily feel in your particular parenting role - because he's been there.

Confessions of a Military Wife is an honest, witty, and often hilarious look at the life of the new-generation military wife. Mollie Gross learned the hard way to laugh instead of cry at what she could not control as a military spouse - and as she quickly discovered, nearly everything was out of her control!

Alison Wearing led a largely carefree childhood until she learned, at age 12, that her family was a little more complex than she had realized. Sure her father had always been unusual compared to the other dads in the neighborhood: he loved to bake croissants, wear silk pajamas around the house, and skip down the street singing songs from Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. But when he came out of the closet in the 1970s, when homosexuality was still a cardinal taboo, it was a shock to everyone in the quiet community of Peterborough, Ontario - especially to his wife and three children.

'I always wanted kids - but then again, I always wanted a loft conversion. Both are pretty easy to put off, as they're very expensive and tend to wreck your house.' Stand-up comedian Sam Avery (aka the Learner Parent) started his award-winning blog when his twin boys were born. A million nappies and Peppa Pig episodes and a lot less sleep later, he shares all the lows, highs and hilarious in-betweens of his experiences of first-time parenthood in this, his highly anticipated first book.

Funny, acutely observed, frighteningly honest and drawing on her own and hundreds of other mum's real experiences, Stephanie Calman serves up the perfect antidote to all those books that tell you that your children must be perfect, and to all those Stepford mums and kids out there who look as if...

When you’re pregnant you think: ‘I’m having a baby’, not a person who will eventually catch trains by themselves, share a fridge with ten strangers, go to a festival in Croatia without succumbing to a drug overdose, and one day, bring you a gin and tonic when your mother is dying. We...

When Amy Nickell left university, she managed to nab herself a real -life paid job as a celebrity reporter in London town. She literally got paid to ask Robert Downey Jr out for Nando's while living with her gay best friend, their Harry Styles cardboard cutout and their pet toad, Snoop Frog, and drank prosecco way before it was in fashion. Things were good, they were fun, they definitely weren't serious. However, that life took a very grown-up, very serious detour when Amy found herself expecting the unexpected and pregnant age 24.

“Superbly intelligent…[a] rewarding Sapiens-style big history.” —The Times (London) A bold and original history of the invention and transformation of masculinity’s most important institution, from the Bronze Age to the contemporary “crisis of men”, told through a collective...

A hilarious and heartwarming short story told from the perspective of a baby genius—because someone has to make sense of this ridiculous world. Sage is seven months old. She drools. She babbles. She’s stuck in a highchair that squeaks when she thinks too hard. But behind those wide eyes and wobbly limbs lies a mind sharper than most adults on their second cup of coffee.

Fertility is a such an interesting topic THAT NO ONE SEEMS TO TALK ABOUT ENOUGH. This podcast aims to change that. Maybe you grew up thinking you’d get pregnant if someone breathed on you the wrong way…until you started trying to actually get pregnant. Or maybe you felt guilty that you weren’t thrilled when you got pregnant and you and your partner weren’t trying at all. Maybe you felt the world tip over when you miscarried. IVF, surrogacy, egg donors, IUIs, loss, PCOS, endometriosis…it’s a lot. Hosted by IVF mom Ashlyne Blue, Confessions of a Slow Cooker is a place for anyone in ...

“The parenting genre is never going to be the same” (Jancee Dunn, author of How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids) after this candid and hilarious collection of essays on motherhood from the award-winning television comedy writer and producer of 2 Broke Girls and The King of Queens, who...

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With a no holds barred account of what it's really like to be a dad in today's day and age, Confessions of a 21st Century Dad delves into the world of fatherhood at the most basic of levels, putting honest thoughts and feelings to the forefront of inspection. You will get an insight into the most important aspects in a dad's life. You will hear about the different species of dad's during the school pickup, the true perks of the job, what a buggy face off is, and what really goes on in our heads during labor.

A Rock-Mom is the everyday shero who puts her big girl panties on and makes things happen. She can often be found with a cup of Starbucks coffee or power bar, a tube of matte lipstick, and under eye concealer. With such titles as "The Competitive Mama Bear", "Where Have All the Socks Gone?" and "Movies on Repeat", Joi Adams hilariously describes the everyday mom who (seemingly) has supernatural powers.