From High Heels To Bunny Slippers: Surviving The Transition From Career To Home (Capital Lifestyles)
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Book Description
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.
About the Author
Christine Conners is a psychotherapist and counselor with a master's 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 Georgia's state mental hospital in Savannah. Christine is the co-author of Lipsmackin' Backpackin' and Lipsmackin' Vegetarian Backpackin'. She lives in Savannah, Georgia.
From High Heels to Bunny Slippers: Surviving the Transition from Career to Home (Capital Lifestyles),Christine Conners,Capital Books,1933102144,Careers - General,Child Care/Parenting,Choice (Psychology),Family & Relationships,Family / Parenting / Childbirth,Parent And Child,Parenting - Child Rearing,Parenting - Motherhood,Stay-at-home mothers,Women & Business,Work and family
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