Lynn Berger

Second Thoughts (eBook, ePUB)

On Having and Being a Second Child

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A beautifully written account of a quest, both personal and scientific, to better understand the impact and experience of the second child.'There are entire shelves filled with books on parenthood, from fairy tales, novels and memoirs to polemics and collections of essays. But while I was expecting our second child, I realised that we have surprisingly few words for this particular new experience.'While every parent knows more of what to expect the next time round, the birth of a second child is no less momentous. Family relationships multiply, birth-order myths hover and sibling rivalry and parental exhaustion threaten. Yet the potential for joy and love within the family also expands, as if by magic.This new literary talent shines a tender insight on a forgotten subject: what it is to parent for the second time and what it is to forever be a younger child.'Beautifully written, deeply humane, a gem of a book.' Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind: A Hopeful History

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: September Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781912836406
• Artikelnr.: 62170373

Autorenporträt

Lynn Berger is a staff writer at De Correspondent, an online journalism platform based in Amsterdam, where she covers care. She studied humanities Maastricht University and Communications at Columbia University. Second Thoughts: On Having and Being a Second Child is her first book.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Expecting
1. "There's going to be a baby"
A brief history of jealousy
2. Bad is stronger than good
On the birth of the second child and the resilience of the first
3. Again, again
On the joy of repetition and the wonder of reminiscence
4. A fly buzzing around my ear
On siblings and only children
5. A pack, a tribe, a tornado
Scenes from a family of four
6. Thou shalt not compare
How we measure our children against each other
7. Typical second child
On the myth of the birth-order effect
8. Shall we read a story together?
What parents do differently the second time around
9. Time is a currency
Raising children costs time, but whose time?
10. Long days, short years
How children transform time
11. The siren song of the easy baby
On whether we have children and how many
Epilogue
On expectations
Afterword and further reading
Notes
Acknowledgments