Pdm…..along these lines.....I recommend, to you, one of the most thought provoking books that I have ever read on the subject....(it covers self esteem and more)…..It is very scholarly and thoroughly researched book....and, hit the psychology world like a bomb.....It was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize.....
I think you would enjoy it....
lOL….like everything else, I read it when my children were already grown up!....sigh....
It would be fascinating reading for anyone who is raising children, I think.....and, especially for the reason that everything that happens with our children doesn't and shouldn't be laid on the mother (or parents) alone....there is a LOT more, to it....
the title is "The Nurture Assumption--Why Children Turn Out The Way That They Do"....by Judith Rich Harris....