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    The Joys and Sorrows of Parenting: 26 Essays to Reassure and Console
    The Joys and Sorrows of Parenting: 26 Essays to Reassure and Console
    The Joys and Sorrows of Parenting: 26 Essays to Reassure and Console
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    The Joys and Sorrows of Parenting: 26 Essays to Reassure and Console

    By The School of Life and Bronia Stewart

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    A playful gift book that explores the highs and lows of parenting in a series of compassionate, authentic and humorous mini essays. 


    Full of colorful original photographs, The Joys and Sorrows of Parenting promises us a gentle way of staying calm around one of the most arduous yet deeply fulfilling jobs in the world. 

    This playful adult board book distills 2,000 years of philosophy into 26 consoling mini essays that shed light on trials and pleasures of parenting. 


    • A PLAYFUL BOARD BOOK FOR ADULTS illustrated with full color, original photographs throughout. 

    • 26 DIGESTIBLE MINI ESSAYS to reassure and entertain the modern parent. 

    • PRACTICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL parenting advice that doesn't shy away from the imperfections of family life. 

    • THE IDEAL GIFT for parents at all stages of their family journey.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe School of Life
    Release dateOct 22, 2020
    ISBN9781912891658
    The Joys and Sorrows of Parenting: 26 Essays to Reassure and Console
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    The School of Life

    The School of Life is a groundbreaking enterprise which offers good ideas for everyday living. Founded in 2008, The School of Life runs a diverse range of programmes and services which address questions of personal fulfilment and how to lead a better life. Drawing insights from philosophy, psychology, literature, the visual arts and sciences, The School of Life offers evening classes, weekends, conversation meals and other events that explore issues relating to big themes such as Love,Work, Play, Self, Family and Community.

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      The Joys and Sorrows of Parenting - The School of Life

      Introduction

      Being a parent can be one of the sources of our greatest joys. It is also – intermittently – the cause of some of our deepest sorrows. It is likely that we will spend at least some of the time in despair and confusion, wondering whether it really has to be so hard. Philosophy has, over the last 2,000 years, been a discipline committed to calm, kindness, perspective and a reduction of paranoia. It is one of the most useful sources of solace and humanity. The Joys and Sorrows of Parenting is made up of 26 small essays that aim to provide understanding of and consolation for the trials and pleasures of parenting. They will provoke insight, recognition and a far more forgiving, generous assessment of one’s challenges. This book promises us a gentle way of staying calm around one of the most arduous, yet deeply fulfilling, jobs in the world.

      Society’s messages

      Our societies promote deep enthusiasm about parenthood. They frame the act of bringing a new person into the world as a cause of unalloyed joy and celebration. But this very well-intentioned enthusiasm has an unintended habit of triggering a very difficult consequence: it becomes extremely hard for us to admit publicly to having problems around our new families. It feels like a grave and serious failing just of our own, a mark of a particularly and unusually deficient nature. We can feel almost unbearably guilty at certain thoughts we may have in the privacy of our hearts: that we’d rather not see our family for a few days; that we look very wistfully at the time before we had children; that we suspect we’re not naturally cut out to be a parent; that at certain points we resent or even dislike our own child.

      Our societies are floridly sentimental about parenthood – and therefore unwittingly cruel. They concentrate on the high points and deftly edit out the troubles. We should accept with no guilt and good grace that, of course, being a parent is wonderful and

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