Time to Parent: Organizing Your Life to Bring Out the Best in Your Child and You

Time to Parent: Organizing Your Life to Bring Out the Best in Your Child and You

by Julie Morgenstern
Time to Parent: Organizing Your Life to Bring Out the Best in Your Child and You

Time to Parent: Organizing Your Life to Bring Out the Best in Your Child and You

by Julie Morgenstern

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Overview

In Time to Parent, the bestselling organizational guru takes on the ultimate time-management challengeparenting, from toddlers to teenswith concrete ways to structure and spend true quality time with your kids.

Would you ever take a job without a job description, let alone one that requires a lifetime contract? Parents do this every day, and yet there is no instruction manual that offers achievable methods for containing and organizing the seemingly endless job of parenting. Finding a healthy balance between raising a human and being a human often feels impossible, but Julie Morgenstern shows you how to harness your own strengths and weaknesses to make the job your own. This revolutionary roadmap includes:

A unique framework with eight quadrants that separates parenting responsibilities into actionable, manageable tasks—for the whole bumpy ride from cradle to college.
Simple strategies to stay truly present and focused, whether you’re playing with your kids, enjoying a meal with your significant other, or getting ahead on that big proposal for work.
Clever tips to make the most of in-between time—Just 5-15 minutes of your undivided attention has a huge impact on kids.
Permission to take personal time without feeling guilty, and the science and case studies that show how important self-care is and how to make time for it.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781627797436
Publisher: Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 09/04/2018
Pages: 352
Sales rank: 523,964
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Julie Morgenstern is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Organizing from the Inside Out and Time Management from the Inside Out. She is an internationally renowned organization consultant who has shared her expertise on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, and more.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION Kids: An Instruction Manual ix

Part I Time and Attention
1. Undivided Focus: What Parents Crave 3
2. Loved and Listened To: What Kids Need 15
3. Organizing the Job: A Simple Blueprint 26
4. A Guide to the Quadrants 39

Part II Self-Assessing
5. Where Do You Gravitate?: Your Quadrant Scorecard 57
6. Four Time-Management Skills You Must Master 74

Part III Raising a Human Being: Doing Your P.A.R.T.
7. Provide 99
8. Arrange 115
9. Relate 144
10. Teach 169

Part IV Being a Human Being: Fueling Your S.E.L.F.
11. Sleep 205
12. Exercise 228
13. Love 248
14. Fun 271

Part V Life Happens
15. When Life Throws You Curveballs: Moving, Divorce, Illness, Job Loss 293

AFTERWORD Enjoy the Ride 328

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