The Stay-at-Home Survival Guide: Field-Tested Strategies for Staying Smart, Sane, and Connected When You're Raising Kids at Home

The Stay-at-Home Survival Guide: Field-Tested Strategies for Staying Smart, Sane, and Connected When You're Raising Kids at Home

by Melissa Stanton
The Stay-at-Home Survival Guide: Field-Tested Strategies for Staying Smart, Sane, and Connected When You're Raising Kids at Home

The Stay-at-Home Survival Guide: Field-Tested Strategies for Staying Smart, Sane, and Connected When You're Raising Kids at Home

by Melissa Stanton

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781580052474
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 06/03/2008
Pages: 400
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 7.40(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Prior to becoming a Stay-at-Home mom, Melissa Stanton was an editor at People and LIFE magazines. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Glamour, Parenting, Redbook, and Organize. She lives with her family in a rural suburb of Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents


Preface: Why is Stay-at-Home Motherhood Something to Survive?     1
From the Author     9
FYI: The Survey, and Other Details     13
Introduction: Walking Away from Having It All     17
Voices: What's Great (and Not So Great) about Being a Stay-at-Home Mom?     21
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times     25
A Day in the Life     37
Several Kids, Special Needs, but Still Just One You     61
Jack(ie)-of-All-Trades     83
Money Matters     111
Ms. or Mrs. Smith?     155
True Love + Kids = Real Life     173
Sex and the Stressed-Out Stay-at-Home Mom     189
Motherhood: Who's the Expert?     209
The Mommy Brain (or, Why We Often Can't Think Straight)     225
Get Me Out of Here!     243
You Gotta Have Friends     259
Surviving (and Seeking) Solitary Confinement, and Other Strategies for Staying Sane     285
Where's My Stand-In?     315
Making Your Comeback (or Not)     335
Proud Mamas: Taking Pride in What We Do     355
Afterword     371
Voices: Final Words of Wisdom from the Experts     375
The Moms You Met     379

What People are Saying About This

Wendy

"Let me start of by saying that I LOVED this book. The Stay-At-Home Survival Guide by Melissa Stanton is definitely a must read for anyone who is a stay at home Mom, work at home Mom, or Mom's who are even thinking of becoming one. This book talks about the wonderful side of staying at home right along with the challenges that you will face. Not only financially, but mentally and emotionally as well. I never felt like I was being preached at while reading this book but only encouraged. I loved how Melissa Stanton writes the truth of what being at home with your children really is."--(Wendy, wesnlani.blogspot.com)

Jill

"This book is great on so many different levels. It let's us all know (stay at home parent or working parent) that we all are doing what is best for our families. We're all trying our best. And we all just need a happy place to go to in the midst of all the chaos. And that we totally shouldn't beat ourselves up for having a bad day, or for just not wanting to play tea party for the tenth time that hour. This is also a great book for our working husbands to read. I don't think they completely get how much energy and life these little children suck out of us!"--(Jill, livelaughblog.com/2008/06/11/the-ultimate-survival-guide)

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