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The Ghost in the HouseSubmitted by Lucy Pinball on Tue, 08/15/2006 - 10:16pm.
I am just reading a review by dooce over at Alpha Mom about this book. It looks really interesting. http://www.alphamom.com/site/dooce/ anyone heard of it? read it? what do you all think about this statement: The Ghost in the House looks at how mothers today struggle to live up to unreasonable expectations, and suggests that "the bar has been raised in imperceptible increments, for such a long time, that much of the time we don't even realize that we are holding ourselves to standards our mothers never had to meet." I have also been meaning to read Inconsolable: how I threw my mental health out with the diapers http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1580051405/103-2958815-1575836?v=glance... We should really start a recommended reading about parenting booklist. I will go do that right now. "A large portion of the book is dedicated to the discussion of breaking the cycle of depression, to showing that even though the tendency toward depression is genetic, that a child who has inherited a parent's gene is not doomed to suffer. A lot of how that gene manifests itself depends on how a parent learns to cope with her own depression: "this is poker, remember, not chess -- and much depends on how we play the hand we are dealt." "we seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways." ~ Marge Piercy |
I read it in two days and it is excellent! I reviewed it on my blog, Di's Book Blog:
http://dibookblogetc.typepad.com/my_weblog/
I don't know if that's OK to put that there, but I would welcome anyone to visit my blog.
I have also corresponded with Tracy Thompson, author of The Ghost in the house. She seems like a really down to earth person. She has a great blog as well which you can get to from her web site www.tracythompson.com.
To put it briefly, this book is amazing on so many levels...the anecdotes from mothers across the country, Tracy Thompson's own candid descriptions of her experience AND scientific information that is well-researched and up-to-date.
Di