Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 204 pages
- Published by: Capital Books March 28, 2006
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1933102144
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1933102146
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Book Dimensions:
8.8 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
- Weighs: 8.8 ounces
Product Description
Psychotherapist, mother, and author Christine Conners never doubts that the decision of a professional lady 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 lady 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.
About The Author
Christine Conners is a psychotherapist and counselor with a masters degree in Marriage and Family Counseling. She was president of the board of directors and a co-founder of the NASA Dryden Child Development Center and worked as a liaison with NASA Headquarters and other NASA centers to define uniform guidelines for NASA child development centers. For the last nine years Christine has been primarily the stay-at-home parent of her four children, though she works part-time as a child therapist for Georgias state mental hospital in Savannah. Christine is the co-author of Lipsmackin Backpackin and Lipsmackin Vegetarian Backpackin. She lives in Savannah, Georgia.
Reader Reviews
As activists in the Women's Liberation Movement, my generation worked very hard to give you, our daughters,choices ... in your work, your life, and your home. Now many of you are struggling to decide what to do--quit your job to rear your children or stay on the job. It's a big decision. In FROM HIGH HEELS TO BUNNY SLIPPERS psychotherapist Christine Conners offers her savvy sane advice to women leaning toward the full-time mother choice -- at least while their children are very young. She also recognizes that the transition is hard for those used to the independence of a career. And she gives some great advice for money, marriage, and outside activities that will make the time at home with children a time of fulfillment, not frustration. I highly recommend this book, and might even be inspired to become a full-time grandmother because of it.
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