(Reed Methuen) 1986
‘Thank you for giving me a lifeline to sanity.’ Letter from reader.
‘This book is rare in that it takes mothers and their experiences seriously ..forget the presents for house and baby and give an expectant mother or new mother or any mother, this book. Get one for yourself too.’ City magazine.
‘Today’s mothers,’ read the book jacket for this book, ‘feel under pressure from all sides – ‘cabbages if they stay home, selfish and materialistic if they go out to work. Sometimes it seems, if you’re a mother you just can’t win. Jenny Phillips believed women have to make up their own minds about how they want to be mothers in today’s world. The Mother Manual was written to help them do just that. Packed with suggestions, anecdotes, charts and questionnaires it also contains information on
- Occupational hazards
- Managing motherhood
- The enemy without and the enemy within
- Mother wars
- The mother person
- What other people can do to improve the lot of mothers
‘This is a publication all mothers, if they can find a spare moment, should read.’ Otago Daily Times.
‘Thankyou for giving me a lifeline to sanity’
(reader)
Jenny’s books are still available from many libraries, appear on second hand on sites such as Amazon.com and are regular sellers on auction sites such as Trademe. co.nz.
