Being There : Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters

Erica Komisar

ISBN 10: 0143109294 / ISBN 13: 9780143109297

Published by Penguin Publishing Group Apr 2017, 2017

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Neuware - A powerful look at the importance of a mother's presence in the first years of life\*\*Featured in The Wall Street Journal, and seen on Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, and CBS New York\*\*In this important and empowering book, veteran psychoanalyst Erica Komisar explains why a mother's emotional and physical presence in her child's life--especially during the first three years--gives the child a greater chance of growing up emotionally healthy, happy, secure, and resilient. In other words, when it comes to connecting with your baby or toddler, more is more. Compassionate and balanced, and focusing on the emotional health of children and moms alike, this book shows parents how to give their little ones the best chance for developing into healthy and loving adults. Based on more than two decades of clinical work, established psychoanalytic theory, and the most cutting-edge neurobiological research on caregiving, attachment, and brain development, Being There explains: How to establish emotional connection with a newborn or young child--regardless of whether you're able to work part-time or stay home How to ease transitions to minimize stress for your baby or toddler How to select and train quality childcare What's true and false about widely held beliefs like 'I'm not good with babies' and 'I'll make up for it when he's older' How to recognize and combat feelings of postpartum depression or boredom Why three months of maternity leave is not long enough--and how parents can take control of their choices to provide for their family's emotional needs in the first three years Being a new mom isn't easy. But with support, emotional awareness, and coping skills, it can be the most magical-and essential-work we'll ever do.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Being There : Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Apr 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143109294
• ISBN 13: 9780143109297
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 151H x 28D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 151 millimeters height by 28 millimeters depth
• Weight: 413 grams

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Synopsis

In this important and conversation-starting book, veteran psychoanalyst Erica Komisar offers a provocative and compelling premise: a mother's emotional and physical presence in her child's life--especially during the first three years--means that her child has a greater chance of growing up emotionally healthy, happy, secure, and resilient. When that essential presence goes missing, the child is at higher risk for social, emotional, and developmental issues, both immediate and long term.
Compassionate and balanced, and focusing on the emotional health and well-being of children as well as that of the mothers who care for them, this book shows mothers and fathers how to give their children the best chance for developing into healthy and loving adults. Based on more than two decades of clinical work, established psychoanalytic theory, and the most current and cutting-edge neurobiological research on caregiving, attachment, and brain development, the book explains:
- How to establish emotional connection with a newborn or young child--regardless of whether you're able to pause your career to stay home
- How to select and train quality childcare if necessary--and how to ease transitions and minimize stress for your baby or toddler
- What's true and false about widely held beliefs like "Babies are resilient" and how to combat feelings of post-partum depression or boredom
- Why three months of maternity leave is not long enough--and how women and their partners can take control of their choices to provide for their family's emotional needs in the first three years

About the Author

Erica Komisar, LCSW is a clinical social worker, psychoanalyst and parent guidance expert who has been in private practice in New York City for the last 25 years. A graduate of Georgetown and Columbia Universities and The New York Freudian Society, Ms Komisar is a psychological consultant bringing parenting and work/life workshops to clinics, schools, corporations and childcare settings including The Garden House School, Goldman Sachs, Shearman and Sterling and SWFS Early Childhood Center. She lives is New York City with her husband, optometrist and social entrepreneur Dr. Jordan Kassalow, and their three teenage children.