Stay At Home Handbook

Author : Cheryl Gochnauer
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830823360

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Stay-at-Home Handbook by Cheryl Gochnauer Pdf

Is your "home number" your "work number" too?If you are a stay-at-home parent, you know the workday never really ends. And every day brings both all-too-familiar challenges and unexpected joys. How do you keep it together--physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually?Cheryl Gochnauer's previous book, So You Want to Be a Stay-at-Home Mom, helped parents consider what staying home requires and whether that choice was the best for them and their families. In this new guidebook Gochnauer tackles common--but often difficult--questions and challenges that beset stay-at-home parents:retaining an individual identityfeeling appreciatedviewing childrearing as a valid career choicespending wiselyresisting guiltevaluating work-at-home opportunitieshandling sibling rivalryvolunteering at your child's schoolsucceeding as a stay-at-home dadavoiding the TVgetting help with choressetting a godly examplenurturing your spiritual growthForty-two brief chapters cover a variety of topics and can each be read in about ten minutes. Gochnauer also includes an appendix on networking opportunities for stay-at-home parents and a helpful listing of ministries and organizations that offer parenting resources, services and conferences (all accessible on the Internet).If you are a mom or dad at home part-time or full-time, you'll find immense encouragement--plus practical advice from one who has been there (and still is!)--in Stay-at-Home Handbook.

Author : Peter Baylies,Jessica Toonkel
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1556525346

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The Stay-at-home Dad Handbook by Peter Baylies,Jessica Toonkel Pdf

Man-friendly, practical, and perfect for experienced stay-at-home dads as well as new parents weighing their childcare options, this handbook tackles head-on the issues fathers face when they become primary caregivers. Living comfortably on one income, leaving the job identity behind, cleaning the house efficiently, and networking in a female-oriented community can be challenging for a new father, and these creative anecdotes offer supportive and effective advice to help stay-at-home dads successfully deal with the psychological issues and everyday occurrences that make their parenting situation unique. This advice-oriented guide also includes an extensive resource section listing books, newsletters, online chat groups, playgroups around the country, stay-at-home dad organizations, and other networking opportunities. Book jacket.

Author : Shannon Carpenter
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780143135647

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The Ultimate Stay-at-Home Dad by Shannon Carpenter Pdf

A practical guide for modern-day parenting geared towards stay-at-home dads, offering advice on everything from learning to cook and clean with children, to dealing with mental health and relationships and addressing male loneliness, with the easygoing perspective that dads can use their natural talents to parent any way that they choose. The Ultimate Stay-at-Home Dad manual takes the best advice and wisdom from a dads' group, and puts it into a format to help new stay-at-home fathers. Characterized by actionable and direct advice to fathers, the book takes on parenting from a father's point of view and encourages dads to use their natural talents to become a better parent. That advice is further bolstered by an additional 57 other dads who also give advice. All this advice is framed by the author's personal stories, which help the reader connect with the content and drives the advice home. This is a book that takes on day-to-day parenting, not just as a stay-at-home dad--working fathers could benefit from this book as much as at-home dads.

Author : Libby Gill
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Child rearing
ISBN : CORNELL:31924089521987

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Stay-at-home Dads by Libby Gill Pdf

A media executive and working mother provides a step-by-step blueprint for the transition to a stay-at-home-dad family, and includes tips for creating a business plan, overcoming gender stereotypes, maintaining a healthy work-family balance, and more.

Author : Carren W. Joye
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780595146840

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A Stay-At-Home Mom's Complete Guide to Playgroups by Carren W. Joye Pdf

Packed with practical advice and step-by-step instructions, A Stay-at-Home Mom's Complete Guide to Playgroups covers everything a stay-at-home mom needs to know to start and maintain a successful playgroup for herself and her child! Various options along the way help you tailor your playgroup to your individual needs and those of your child's. Additionally, the book covers ways in which the Internet can help at every stage of the process. Use this book to: · Find existing playgroups · Start a playgroup with step-by-step instructions · Use the Internet to help · Prepare to host playgroup · Set guidelines · Design playgroups for working parents, adopted children, premature babies, and children with disabilities · Provide extra services · Get started with a week-by-week guide of children's activities · Overcome common problems Written by a stay-at-home mom of four children and "veteran" of five successful playgroups, A Stay-at-Home Mom's Complete Guide to Playgroups provides useful tips you can apply to your playgroup within the first few weeks, and even a few years later! Whether starting a playgroup or rejuvenating an old one, this book is an essential tool for a long-lasting, successful playgroup!

Author : Christopher Bode
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781257114566

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4th Quarter Madness: A Football-Style Guide for Stay-At-Home-Dads by Christopher Bode Pdf

Author : Rosanne Orgill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1508670072

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Mom! I'm Home! by Rosanne Orgill Pdf

Author : Rachel Campos-Duffy
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781101133491

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Stay Home, Stay Happy by Rachel Campos-Duffy Pdf

A warm, inspiring, and practical handbook for at-home moms, by a television celebrity and mother of five. National television personality and mother of five Rachel Campos-Duffy presents a new way of looking at stay at-home motherhood that will transform the way readers view their days, their family, and their home. With practical advice and candid, engaging stories from her own life and other moms who are making it all work, mothers will learn about: ? Embracing the choice to stay home with joy and confidence ? Taking care of yourself, guilt-free ? How rekindling your relationship with your husband benefits the whole family ? Reveling in the chance to explore new passions and creative outlets ? And the 10 things that no mom can live without!

Author : Cheryl Gochnauer
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0830819223

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So You Want to be a Stay-at-home Mom by Cheryl Gochnauer Pdf

Cheryl Gochnauer tells what being a stay-at-home mom is like from the perspective of one who is doing it, and she offers practical tips on how you can transition to a life at home.

Author : Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780061867668

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In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms by Dr. Laura Schlessinger Pdf

New York Times Bestseller The internationally syndicated radio host celebrates a group of critically important yet usually overlooked women—stay-at-home moms—and offers them words of inspiration and wisdom. “I’m scared out of my mind.” Dr. Laura hears this frequently from women who know that staying home to raise their children is the right thing for their family. Building on the principles developed during her long career as a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Dr. Laura provides a wealth of advice and support as well as compassion and inspiration to help them attain this goal. She pays special attention to the outrageous fact that stay-at-home moms are actually controversial! Dr. Laura offers a profound and unique understanding of how important it is for many mothers to raise their own children, and how stay-at-home moms benefit society.

Author : Peter Baylies,Jessica Toonkel
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781569764954

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The Stay-at-Home Dad Handbook by Peter Baylies,Jessica Toonkel Pdf

A comprehensive handbook designed for and by a stay-at-home dad that addresses many of the issues that fathers face when they become primary caregivers.

Author : Christina Baglivi Tinglof
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000-02-22
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0071433252

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Stay-at-Home-Parent's Survival Guide by Christina Baglivi Tinglof Pdf

Each year thousands of parents, yearning for more time with their children, put away their briefcases and laptops in favor of baby gear and Legos. Yet being home with the kids all day isn't easy! Some of us need a little extra help with the transition. The Stay-at-Home Parent Survival Guide not only helps Moms and Dads survive the occasional stressful day--something every parent experiences now and then--but also inspires them with new ideas for indoor and outdoor activities, great places to take the kids, starting a playgroup, building a support system, and keeping connected in the adult community. Even if you're a parenting pro, The Stay-at-Home Parent Survival Guide is a useful resource that offers unique ways to handle the day-to-day tasks of stay-at-home parenting, such as helpful tips for finishing the housework with the kids underfoot, meal and naptime strategies that work, skills for building a stronger marriage, managing your time effectively, beating the stay-at-home blues, and balancing household finances on a single income. In addition to the expertise of author Christina Baglivi Tinglof and other stay-at-home parents, The Survival Guide includes valuable insights from a variety of experts, including: Kathy Kristof, syndicated columnist, on how to set and reach financial goals Arlene Rossen Cardozo, author of Sequencing, on the evolution of the stay-at-home mom Dr. Sylvia Rimm, "Today" show parenting expert, on positive discipline Dr. Brian Ray, president of the National Home Education Research Institute, on homeschooling Elaine St. James, author of Simplify Your Life with Kids, on just that Ellen Parlapiano and Patricia Cobe, authors of Mompreneurs, on starting your own business from home Christina Baglivi Tinglof is a stay-at-home mom of three young sons and the author of Double Duty: The Parents' Guide to Raising Twins. She and her family live in Los Angeles.

Author : Melissa Stanton
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-23
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780786745739

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The Stay-at-Home Survival Guide by Melissa Stanton Pdf

Melissa Stanton’s The Stay-at-Home Survival Guide is an all-encompassing, truth-telling how-to book that addresses the many practical and psychological issues facing stay-at-home moms today. How do you create time for yourself? Is there really time to do it all (feed the kids, keep them busy, clean the house, balance the checkbook, and take a shower)? How do you deal with the absence of the “professional you"? An invaluable resource for mothers, The Stay-at-Home Survival Guide includes interviews with stay-at-home moms, discussions with experts (family therapists, educators, medical specialists, career counselors), checklists to help you make the most of your time and keep you balanced, and Melissa Stanton’s own experiences leaving a career as an editor for People magazine to become a stay-at-home mom herself.

Author : Isabelle Fox,Norman M. Lobsenz
Publisher : Barrons Educational Series Incorporated
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0812094905

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Being There by Isabelle Fox,Norman M. Lobsenz Pdf

Details evidence which reveals the importance of maintaining continuity of nurturing care for infants and toddlers and discusses the value of a parental presence in a child's early years

Author : Jasmine Baucham
Publisher : Vision Forum
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Christian education
ISBN : 1934554502

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Joyfully at Home by Jasmine Baucham Pdf

In Joyfully at Home, Jasmine writes with verve and transparency about her own struggles and triumphs as a young woman, encouraging other girls to embrace a vision for the home as a hub of ministry and discipleship and as a training ground for life ahead. With humor, humility, and heart, Jasmine tackles the tough questions girls face, offering practical counsel on how to overcome false views of marriage, husbands, and singleness. An alternate vision for life, education, and gender roles, Jasmine Baucham's Joyfully at Home is a new addition to the Stay at Home Daughter (SAHM) movement.