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We''ve all heard the complaint from parents: They''re more overwhelmed than ever before -- juggling demands on their time as well as conflicting advice from family, friends, frenemies and "experts" on how to achieve parental perfection--or risk jeopardizing their little one''s future happiness.Pediatrician Jane Scott has seen this parental anxiety up close, and in The Confident Parent she shares advice on how to cut through the confusion, dial down the insecurities and unhelpful advice, and simply do what countless parents around the world have done throughout history: tune in to their own instincts and respond to their little one''s needs without overthinking, overstimulating, and overparenting.Informed by a unique global perspective -- before training at Duke and setting up her current practice in Colorado, Dr. Scott lived in England and Ireland, as well as the Australian outback and the South African desert -- The Confident Parent shows readers how to be not just better caregivers but happier and more balanced human beings. The book covers the basics of baby and child-care from breastfeeding to managing temper tantrums, offering a fresh perspective that is refreshingly liberating. Takeaways include:It is not "natural" or necessary for mothers to be with their young children all day and night.  Nurturing a marriage or partnership is as important to child rearing as nurturing the child.Children are strong and resilient--unless parents teach them not to be.Picky eating is learned, not innate.There is such a thing as being too careful.Sometimes the less you know about the so-called rules of parenting, the better you are at it.This upbeat and empowering guide shows parents how small changes can yield big results -- helping them and their kids feel more secure, more confident, and more connected.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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NOW A NETFLIX SERIES STARRING MARGARET QUALLEY & ANDY MACDOWELL.BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING PICK, 2019.BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK.Educated meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid. A beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in the western world. Includes a foreword by international bestelling author Barbara Ehrenreich. 'My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter.'As a struggling single mum, determined to keep a roof over her daughter's head, Stephanie Land worked for years as a maid, working long hours in order to provide for her small family. In Maid, she reveals the dark truth of what it takes to survive and thrive in today's inequitable society.As she worked hard to climb her way out of poverty as a single parent, scrubbing the toilets of the wealthy, navigating domestic labour jobs as a cleaner whilst also juggling higher education, assisted housing, and a tangled web of government assistance, Stephanie wrote. She wrote the true stories that weren't being told. The stories of the overworked and underpaid.Written in honest, heart-rending prose and with great insight, Maid explores the underbelly of the upper-middle classes and the reality of what it's like to be in service to them. 'I'd become a nameless ghost,' Stephanie writes. With this book, she gives voice to the 'servant' worker, those who fight daily to scramble and scrape by for their own lives and the lives of their children.

NOW A NETFLIX SERIES STARRING MARGARET QUALLEY & ANDY MACDOWELL.

BARACK OBAMA''S SUMMER READING PICK, 2019.

BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK.

Educated meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land''s memoir about working as a maid. A beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in the western world. Includes a foreword by international bestelling author Barbara Ehrenreich. ''My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter.''As a struggling single mum, determined to keep a roof over her daughter''s head, Stephanie Land worked for years as a maid, working long hours in order to provide for her small family. In Maid, she reveals the dark truth of what it takes to survive and thrive in today''s inequitable society. As she worked hard to climb her way out of poverty as a single parent, scrubbing the toilets of the wealthy, navigating domestic labour jobs as a cleaner whilst also juggling higher education, assisted housing, and a tangled web of government assistance, Stephanie wrote. She wrote the true stories that weren''t being told. The stories of the overworked and underpaid. Written in honest, heart-rending prose and with great insight, Maid explores the underbelly of the upper-middle classes and the reality of what it''s like to be in service to them. ''I''d become a nameless ghost,'' Stephanie writes. With this book, she gives voice to the ''servant'' worker, those who fight daily to scramble and scrape by for their own lives and the lives of their children.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Good Morning America Book Club Pick A New York Times Most Anticipated Books of Fall From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner, a “raw and inspiring” (People) memoir about college, motherhood, poverty, and life after Maid.When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, he called it an “unflinching look at America’s class divide…and a reminder of the dignity of all work.” Later, it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid, which was viewed by sixty-seven million households and was Netflix’s fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Stephanie’s escape out of poverty and abuse in search of a better life inspired millions. Maid was a story about a housecleaner, but it was also a story about a woman with a dream. In Class, Land takes us with her as she finishes college and pursues her writing career. Facing barriers at every turn including a byzantine loan system, food insecurity, the judgments of professors and fellow students who didn’t understand the demands of attending college while under the poverty line—Land finds a way to survive once again, finally graduating in her mid-thirties. Class paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition. Who has the right to create art? Who has the right to go to college? And what kind of work is valued in our culture? In clear, candid, and moving prose, Class grapples with these questions, offering a searing indictment of America’s educational system and an inspiring testimony of a mother’s triumph against all odds.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Good Morning America Book Club Pick A New York Times Most Anticipated Books of Fall From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner, a “raw and inspiring” (People) memoir about college, motherhood, poverty, and life after Maid.When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, he called it an “unflinching look at America’s class divide…and a reminder of the dignity of all work.” Later, it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid, which was viewed by sixty-seven million households and was Netflix’s fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Stephanie’s escape out of poverty and abuse in search of a better life inspired millions. Maid was a story about a housecleaner, but it was also a story about a woman with a dream. In Class, Land takes us with her as she finishes college and pursues her writing career. Facing barriers at every turn including a byzantine loan system, food insecurity, the judgments of professors and fellow students who didn’t understand the demands of attending college while under the poverty line—Land finds a way to survive once again, finally graduating in her mid-thirties. Class paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition. Who has the right to create art? Who has the right to go to college? And what kind of work is valued in our culture? In clear, candid, and moving prose, Class grapples with these questions, offering a searing indictment of America’s educational system and an inspiring testimony of a mother’s triumph against all odds.

Die wahre und berührende Geschichte hinter der Netflix-Erfolgsserie »Maid«.»Ich liebe diese Geschichte einer Frau, die unerträgliche Lebensumstände meistert.« Reese Witherspoon»Meine Tochter lernte in einer Obdachlosenunterkunft laufen.« Stephanie Land steht kurz davor, ihren Traum vom Studieren in die Tat umzusetzen, als sie ungeplant schwanger wird. Ihr Freund fängt an, sie immer stärker zu kontrollieren und zu bedrohen, von ihrer Familie bekommt sie keine Hilfe. Zusammen mit ihrer kleinen Tochter flüchtet sie schließlich aus ihrer toxischen Beziehung und landet auf der Straße. Doch statt zu verzweifeln beginnt Stephanie zu kämpfen: Mit einem Job als Putzhilfe schafft sie es gerade so, sich und ihre Tochter über Wasser zu halten. Während sie die Häuser putzt, erlebt sie aus erster Hand die Sorgen und Sehnsüchte ihrer so viel besser gestellten Kunden. Und trotz vieler Rückschläge schafft sie es mit schierer Willenskraft, eine bessere Zukunft für sich und ihr Kind zu erkämpfen. Dies ist ihre Erfolgsgeschichte.Auf Barack Obamas Sommer-Leseliste und »New York Times«-Bestseller. Verfilmt von Netflix mit Margaret Qualley, Andie MacDowell und Nick Robinson.»Ein aufrichtiges und starkes Memoir … Lands Liebe zu ihrer Tochter … scheint hell durch die Seiten dieser wunderschönen, erhebenden Geschichte.« Publishers Weekly

A los veintiocho años, los planes de Stephanie Land de abandonar su ciudad natal para ir a la universidad y ser escritora se vieron truncados cuando una aventura de verano se convirtió en un embarazo inesperado. Para llegar a fin de mes, tuvo que dedicarse a la limpieza. Con un control tenaz de su sueño, trabajaba durante el día y recibía clases online por la noche para obtener un título universitario. Mientras, escribió sobre historias reales que no se estaban contando: de estadounidenses mal pagados y con exceso de trabajo; de vivir con cupones para alimentos; de las viviendas proporcionadas por programas del Gobierno, pero que acabaron siendo alojamientos transitorios; de los distantes funcionarios que la llamaban afortunada por recibir ayuda mientras ella no se sentía afortunada en absoluto.Criada explora las debilidades de la clase media-alta de Estados Unidos y la realidad de estar a su servicio. Su escritura inquebrantable da voz al «sirviente», que persigue el sueño americano por debajo del umbral de la pobreza. Pero es también un testimonio inspirador de la fuerza, la determinación y el triunfo definitivo del espíritu humano.

The American AUTHOR Stephanie Land reviews her journey as a single, trying to provide a safe life for her child MIA, even on the crumbs of social aid and her little income that she earns from her work, "a house maid". The book is exposed to many social and class aspects in American society, but it is not a book on public policies and does not try to appear so, but rather a personal condemnation of the conditions of the lower classes in the United States of America. The book also does not tell the success story of its owner, but it simply describes and through its daily suffering how the prevailing American saying is wrong. "The more hard you work, the more your life changes