The goodbye year
Subtitle: wisdom and culinary therapy to survive your child's senior year of high school (and reclaim the you of you) : a month-by-month guide with recipes
By: Toni Piccinini
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781580054867
Subjects: Mother and child; Loss (Psychology); High school students; Mothers
Description: "Every September, some mommy's "baby" starts her senior year of high school. For many women, a child's senior year is the first serious look back on the past eighteen. Every event (from Halloween to Mother's Day) will be The Last Time. Mixed in with all the melancholy is the ever-present and stress-filled "now" of the senior year--college applications. The Goodbye Year speaks to a mother's realization that her child's senior year of high school is the end of motherhood as she knows it, because Toni Piccinini knows exactly what that's like. After her third child graduated, she was an expert at navigating the senior year experience, and she shares her acquired wisdom about letting go in a narrative that addresses what motherhood--and womanhood--is really all about. From college applications to acceptances (and sometimes rejections), Piccinini takes the reader through senior year, one month at a time. With tips for staying sane and letting go, as well as calendars and other helpful tools, this book provides guidance for mothers struggling with their soon-to-be empty nest. Part self-help, part therapy, and completely honest, The Goodbye Year is the perfect book for moms getting ready to say goodbye to their children" -- Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Ignorance is bliss; title: The first of the lasts; title: Memories and melancholy; title: Gratitude is a fickle friend; title: Ghosts in the photos, devil in the details; title: Diets and denial; title: The weight of love; title: Rejection; title: Acceptance (or, if we were salmon, this would be the end); title: Really, it's called mother's day; title: Mother-of-the-graduate dress; title: Nothing says "it's over" like a dead dog; title: The dorm drop-off-looks like a minimum-security prison but costs like the ritz; title: Epilogue: The empty nest.