10 HABITS OF HAPPY MOTHERS(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　The pressure on women today has pushed many American mothers
to the breaking point. It feels as if “doing your best” is never
enough to please everyone, and the demands mothers place on
themselves are both impossible and unrealistic. Now Meg Meeker,
M.D., critically acclaimed author of Strong Fathers, Strong
Daughters, puts her twenty-five years’ experience as a practicing
pediatrician and counselor into a sound, sane approach to reshaping
the frustrating, exhausting lives of so many moms. 
　　Mothers are expected to do it all: raise superstar kids, look
great, make good salaries, volunteer for everything, run errands,
keep a perfect house, be the perfect wife. Single mothers often
have even more demands—and less support. In this rallying cry for
change, Dr. Meeker incorporates clinical data and her own
experience raising four children to show why mothers suffer from
the rising pressure to excel and the toll it takes on their
emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual health. Too many mothers
are increasingly lonely, anxious, depressed, and unhappy with
themselves, refusing to let themselves off the hook. Here, Dr.
Meeker has identified the 10 most positive habits of mothers who
are healthy, happy, and fulfilled. The key is to embrace a new
perspective and create real joy and purpose by utilizing such core
habits as
　　? making friends with those who know the meaning of
friendship
　　? finding out what money can buy (and what it cannot)
　　? lightening the overload—and doing less more often
　　? discovering faith and learning how to trust it
　　? taking some alone time and reviving yourself
　　Mothers, it’s time to view the unconditional trust that you see
in your children’s eyes when they take your hand or find your face
in a crowd as a mirror of your own wonder and worth. You are the
light that shines in their lives, the beacon that guides them. By
implementing the key strategies in Dr. Meeker’s book, you can be
happy, hopeful, and a wonderful role model. You can teach your
children to be the very best they can be—and isn’t that still the
most precious reward of motherhood?
　　　　

　　Meg Meeker, M.D., is the author of Strong
Fathers, Strong Daughters and Boys Should Be Boys. She
has been a physician practicing pediatric and adolescent medicine,
working with children and their parents, for twenty-five years. Dr.
Meeker is the mother of four children, and lives with her husband
in northern Michigan.