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Name: Parenting By Heart

Author: Pinky McKay
Year: 2000
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Parenting

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How to cope with the birth nazis' and the nipple police'. Parenting methods come in and out of fashion. Freud may have been the first expert' to tell us that we, mothers in particular, could single-handedly mess up our children for life by the way we bring them up, but he wasn't the only one. And now it seems everyone is an expert -- about our babies. Parenting by Heart shows you how to stand up for yourself against the pressure to be a perfect parent (as well as partner and lover). Explore your options and take charge. Most of all, lighten up. Laugh. Enjoy.

Author Biography: Pinky McKay, a former nurse, is a Melbourne writer and editor specialising in health, education and family issues. She is also the co-parent of four grown children plus a bonus baby'.