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by: Melissa Stanton
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.87430973
EAN: 9781580052474
ISBN: 1580052479
Label: Seal Press
Manufacturer: Seal Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 386
Publication Date: June 01, 2008
Publisher: Seal Press
Sales Rank: 46012
Studio: Seal Press
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Product Description:
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.
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Rating: - Great Book, Especially the Money Chapter
My sister has this book (even reviewed it here) and I've been reading it at her house and really enjoying it, even though I'm not a SAHM (yet). I just now bought a copy that I'm going to give as a Christmas/Baby gift to a friend who is pregnant with her second and will be staying home. I'm a working mom of two right now but the juggling has become really hard for me and my husband to manage with two demanding jobs. I don't think I'll quit to stay home but as luck would have it I might actually be ... Read More
Rating: - Very reassuring
I'm a mom of new twins and bought two "survival guides." This one, for being a new stay at home mom and another one about being a new mom. The new mom guide, which is by a doctor, wasn't as useful as I'd hoped. (I bought it for the advice about regaining my body, but she doesn't really address what happened to my body due to twins.) But I'm really enjoying this book, which I'm reading a bit here and there since I don't have much time to do anything anymore. Melissa, the author, had twins (like me) ... Read More
Rating: - A "must have" book for any Stay-At-Home Mom.
I have been a Stay-At-Home mom for 12 years and this book is "spot on"! It's a practical, sensible, hands-on guide that covers all the issues and challenges of being a Stay-At-Home mom. I highly recommend this book for all Stay-At-Home moms and for any soon-to-be Stay-At-Home moms. Kudos to Melissa Stanton for such a well-thought out and well-written guide.
Rating: - VALIDATING!
This book is refreshing in its honesty! Finally a REAL perspective on what it's like to be at home, with kids, all day, every day...and not loving it all day, every day. I found the book totally validating - I felt like the author had a window into my actual life. It's crystal clear that Melissa Stanton has walked the walk, and her perspective will make so many of us SAHMs feel supported and understood. I keep this book right next to my well-referenced collection of parenting books by the Sears ... Read More
Rating: - You are not alone
This is a fabulous must-read for all stay at home moms. You will relate with all of Melissa's joy and frustration simultaneously. While reading the book there were many moments where I felt understood for the ability to stay at home and parent my children as well as have a brain and think for myself. It is the toughest job that anyone could do and yet many women do it everyday without complaint. How does anybody do it? Melissa shows that it is alright to feel exhausted, complain, scream, cry and ... Read More
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