MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS

Women on The Web aka WOWOWOW posts an interview with the author Elizabeth Berg about the relationship between Mothers and Daughters. She is very candid and I loved when she admitted wanting her pregnant daughter to have a girl so she could experience the eye rolling and the slammed doors.

Our new book Too Close For Comfort? Questioning the Intimacy of Today's New Mother-Daughter Relationship will be published by Berkley Books in Sept.

Is this an era of obsessive parenting?

This s a provocative article in Newsweek written by Leonore Skenazy about how overprotective we are with our children. In generations past children had much more freedom to walk to their friends, make their own plans, and organize their free time. How can they learn self reliance when parents aver so invested on the minute details of their lives? What is the downside for kids when we fail to give them the autonomy they crave?

Michelle Obama's Brand of Feminism

In The Washington Post, Naomi Wolf, discusses how feminism has progressed through the years from Betty Friedan's 1963 bestseller "The Feminine Mystique" to Helen Gurley Brown's "Sex and the Single Girl" and how Michelle Obama's generation represents a synthesis of the two. In the past two versions of independent women emerged. This article helps make sense of the "Sex and the City" woman who doesn't see men as the oppressor.