The Mother Dance How Children Change Your Life

Lerner puts the spotlight on how a woman is changed when she becomes a mother. Enlivened with personal tales & vivid case examples, this book spells out what happens to a woman when 2 become 3 . . . & 4. She relates her basic lessons of motherhood: that we are not in control of what happens to our children; that most of what we worry about doesn't happen (though bad things happen that we fail to anticipate); & that our children will love us with all of our imperfections if we can do the same for them. Lerner helps us to distinguish what we can change, & what we need to surrender to the fact that our lives -- & our children's -- may not go as we expect.