Love in the Time of Contempt / Joanne Fedler

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Author:

Joanne Fedler

Date:

January 2015
(Hardie Grant Books)

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LOVE IN THE TIME OF CONTEMPT

Original Language: English
Territory: World excl. English/Germany

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OVER 30,000 COPIES SOLD IN GERMANY!

In Love in the Time of Contempt, Joanne Fedler shares her philosophy that we are meant to parent imperfectly. Our mistakes are the start of the important conversations we need to have with our kids.

But we are also meant to parent mindfully: parenting needs a framework, a vision of life that it is in service to. This is a book about how it feels to be the parent of someone sprouting hair, tits and attitude all over the place.

It is a frazzled and complex business to remain mature while supporting someone becoming an adult. At the very least, it raises the question of whether we have, in fact, done enough growing up ourselves. This is an honest look at the dramas and delights of parenting people who know it all, don't yet have a fully functioning brain and who desperately need us to parent them - just not in the way we're used to.

Joanne Fedler graduated from Yale with a Masters of Law and is an ex women s rights advocate and law lecturer. Joanne is now a published author, journalist, inspirational speaker and writing mentor.

She was born in South Africa and now lives in Sydney with her husband Zed, two teenagers and two cats.

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