Everything You Need to Know about Living with Your Baby and Your Parents Under One Roof (Need to Know Library) [Library Binding]

Carolyn Simpson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1998 | Series: Need to Know Library

A guide for all teenage parents trying to raise their babies while living at home with their own parents.

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Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 7 Up-Despite the overly ambitious titles, these two books offer solid, if general, overviews of difficult subjects. Positive, practical advice and encouragement characterize both the writing style and the information offered. Self-Confidence concentrates on the power of positive thinking, and interestingly serves as complementary companion to the second book, as many of the same principles appear in both. Ignoffo traces the thought patterns that contribute to low self-esteem and outlines a plan using deliberately positive self-talk to break through destructive cycles and develop confidence. Julie Tallard Johnson's Celebrate You! (Lerner, 1990) covers much of the same ground with greater depth and incorporates some side issues such as spirituality and trouble families. Living with Your Baby is aimed specifically at teenage parents, whether they are in couples or single fathers or mothers. The advice offered deals more with the interpersonal relationships and working out living arrangements than with infant care and toddler discipline per se. The tone is consistently nonjudgmental; the writing and layout are geared toward reluctant readers. Simpson tries to be positive to such an extent that her text becomes rather rose-colored; while she alludes to conflicts with the teen's parents, the more realistic portrayal only emerges with a jolt in the appended chapter of actual comments from the young parents regarding what they do and do not like about their situation. Herma Silverstein's Teen Guide to Single Parenting (Watts, 1989) presents a more realistic picture and offers a wealth of child-care advice.?Joyce Adams Burner, Hillcrest Library, Prairie Village, KS
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From Booklist

Gr. 6^-12. With the Morning Glory multi-volume Teens Parenting series being really the only other YA targeted source of material about living in a three-generation household, this compact book should be welcome. Simpson does a fine job of identifying key issues for teen parents living "at home" and includes a chapter cautioning young adults to be responsible about their sexual lives. One of the best features of the book is its acknowledgment of teen dads: Simpson encourages them to be a part of their child's life but also to accept, if necessary, the role of a single parent, noting that babies can thrive with a single teen dad, especially one who has the right kind of support himself. Photos are just acceptable, and because Simpson addresses couples and single dads and moms all at once, there's occasionally some narrative awkwardness. There's no doom and gloom about being a parent here, though (even while it's made plain that parenting is no easy task), and Simpson's straightforward, practical suggestions are never compromised by an overabundance of personal stories, as is the case with many books in the Need to Know Library. A solid addition. Stephanie Zvirin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Library Binding: 64 pages
• Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group; Revised edition (August 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0823928403
• ISBN-13: 978-0823928408
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,148,214 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It jumps around a little but it's very informative, January 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Everything You Need to Know about Living with Your Baby and Your Parents Under One Roof (Need to Know Library) (Hardcover)

I like the book, it's informative and it's easy to find a topic. I don't like all the jumping around within the topics, it's like it's never focused on one point so you have a snippet here and then the continuation is someplace else. So I guess if you read the whole entire thing that's not a problem, but if you're looking for something specific it can be. Like for example I'm a single parent and male, and since info on that is all scattered throughout the book I had to read through the parts that dealt with mothers and married teen parents and non-custodial parents. I would have preferred clear topics, but this book is actually the best resource I have found and the most complete and informative.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's about time teen dads were included., December 7, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Everything You Need to Know about Living with Your Baby and Your Parents Under One Roof (Need to Know Library) (Hardcover)

There aren't many books that talk about teen dads, so it's good to see this one - it's both positive ("you can succeed if you're committed to it" as opposed to "that's it, you've ruined your life") and brings up the important issues (taxes have little to do with parenting). I like the way the author tries to include everyone, avoiding calling all teen parents "teen moms," and acknowledging that there are single parents out there and that they're not all female. It includes all the information, and doesn't include the parts that have the potential of making you say "this has nothing to do with me ... what about me?"