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Beyond the Mommy Years: How to Live Happily Ever After...After the Kids Leave Home
Thirty million mothers between 40 and 60 years old are about to face childless households for the first time in decades. For some women, it is a lonely and confusing time; but for the vast majority, it's a journey of joy and discovery. Through intensive and wide-ranging original research, author Carin Rubenstein reveals how and why some mothers thrive and others do not. Sh...more
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Published
August 14th 2008
by Grand Central Life & Style
(first published 2007)
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The title of the last chapter of this book easily sums it up ... Coming Into Your Own (Again). The book as a whole talks about that idea. For me it was a realistic summation of possibilities that are fast approaching in our home. I liked the book and think it was reassuring I don't appear to becoming a sobbing empty nester but instead seem to be heading towards thriving and surviving with the upcoming changes just becoming one more phase in my life. I think it is a good book for stay-at-home mom...more
I'm still in the early stages of this process of emptying my nest, so not all this advice applied to me personally. Suffice it to say that I hope I've raised kids who will be more self-sufficient than the average American young person who now receives financial support from their parents until they are 26 years old! Good grief, I was married years already at that age.
Fairly decent and enjoyable, if you can get beyond the author's jealously snarky attitude toward the leisure-class wealthy. It was nice to get affirmation that I am not the only one excited to have new opportunities and more time to explore them.
Getting ready for the next stage of living. I think I'm going to like it!!
So often, we know exactly that we want to get married and have children, but we don't know what to do after the children are grown. This book gives a good overview of what large numbers of women are doing at this stage plus averages and standards and opportunities for this period of life. What I took away from it was that, in their fifties, women are more at peace with themselves and their worlds that at any other time in their lives.
Fun read for the right aged audience. My favorite concept from this book is "...mothers will know their children for much longer as independent adults than they will have known them as dependent children..."
However, if she were to write, "it's all about you" one more time I think I will barf.
However, if she were to write, "it's all about you" one more time I think I will barf.
Mar 24, 2013
Marianne
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Shelves:
self-help,
non-fiction
Very interesting - and read at a point in my life - about to turn 50 with one daughter who's left the nest and the other in college- where I feel I am on the cusp of a new and better life!
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