Being There, Erica Komisar, LCSW
Being There, Erica Komisar, LCSW
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Being There
Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters

Author: Erica Komisar, LCSW

Narrator: Wendy Tremont King

Unabridged: 8 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/11/2017

Synopsis

Compassionate and balanced, and focusing on the emotional health and well-being of children as well as that of the mothers who care for them, this book shows mothers and fathers how to give their children the best chance for developing into healthy and loving adults. Based on more than two decades of clinical work, established psychoanalytic theory, and the most current and cutting-edge neurobiological research on caregiving, attachment, and brain development, the book explains:

How to establish emotional connection with a newborn or young child—regardless of whether you're able to pause your career to stay home
How to select and train quality childcare if necessary—and how to ease transitions and minimize stress for your baby or toddler
What's true and false about widely held beliefs like "babies are resilient" and how to combat feelings of post-partum depression or boredom
Why three months of maternity leave is not long enough—and how women and their partners can take control of their choices to provide for their family's emotional needs in the first three years

About Erica Komisar, LCSW

Erica Komisar, LCSW is a clinical social worker, psychoanalyst and parent guidance expert who has been in private practice in New York City for the last 25 years. A graduate of Georgetown and Columbia Universities and the New York Freudian Society, Erica is a psychological consultant bringing parenting and work/life workshops to clinics, schools, corporations and childcare settings including the Garden House School, Goldman Sachs, Shearman and Sterling, and SWFS Early Childhood Center. She lives is New York City with her husband, optometrist and social entrepreneur Dr. Jordan Kassalow, and their three teenage children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ann

The book gets an unfair reputation from the title and from people projecting their own misgivings. It is not about working versus non-working, rich versus poor, or whatever mommy wars crazies are trying to spin it as. It is about trying to -whether you are working or not- prioritize your child's emo......more

Goodreads review by Taryn

As a neonatal nurse, lactation consultant and mother of 3 all my years of study and practical experience have shown me that the information in this book is spot on. Our culture over the last 20 -30 yrs has really devalued mothering. Its PC to say that quality time is more important than quantity and......more

Goodreads review by Lacey

I will admit that I read this book to confirm/feel good about choices I have already made. That's the only kind of parenting book I'll read these days -- I need all the support I can get, and with my family and closest friends out of town, sometimes a book is all I have at the moment to tell me I'm......more

Goodreads review by Erin

I was really ready to enjoy this book. I've been lucky to stay home full time with all 3 of our kids when they were babies, so if science affirmed this choice, then great! But i feel like this book combined the author's opinions on what makes a good parent with a little bit of science, and didn't do......more

Goodreads review by Kylie

There are things I liked about this book. But too many things bothered me too much to ignore. Komisar says several times that many of her points in this book based on observations of people she met in her private practice. Exceptionally wealthy white women in NYC. Her suggestions may be fair for a lo......more

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