Do you ever wonder if you're doing this parenting gig right? Maybe you feel overloaded with work and guilty because family time suffers? Perhaps you wish you had more time to do fun stuff with your kids? Or you wonder how many years you'll wait before you get some quality grown-up time with your partner?
In this easy-to-read, light-hearted and practical book, international time management specialist and author Robyn Pearce helps you find ways to stay sane while raising your beloved fridge-raiders, mess-makers and sleep-destroyers. Laugh and learn with her as she shares tips from her crazy years of raising six children, including a special-needs foster son, all arriving in nine years - to the day. And they've also been prolific producers! These days her fridge continues to be raided, pantry emptied, ear-drums abused and windows regularly smeared with love-marks when their seventeen offspring regularly come to visit.
You'll delight in 86 time-saving parenting tips and tricks as well as heart-warming encouragement for overloaded and time-poor parents.
Just a few of the topics:
How to get the kids to help around the houseMaking time for each childCoping with technologyFast and healthy food - yes, you can have both!Getting teenagers to take responsibilityHow parents can still have a life!What to do so your child doesn't turn into a spoiled brat and an irresponsible adult.Time-saving housework tipsThink like a nanny - and get the chores done earlierAnd heaps more ...
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About the Author :
For close on 30 years Robyn Pearce has been an international time management and productivity specialist, speaking to audiences not only all round her home country of New Zealand, but also in many other countries. Before accidently stumbling into the world of business education, she raised six children, including a foster son with special needs. The six all arrived in a nine-year period, to the day! You can imagine how ridiculously busy life was! They then went forth and multiplied, blessing her with seventeen grandchildren. At her seminars and speeches, she's seen many time-strapped and stressed parents. They do their very best to raise good kids, yet many echo the worries and time challenges Robyn experienced in her own days as a young parent. She really does understand.
Review :
This book is Robyn's finest work to date. With her tribe of children and 17 grandchildren as evidence, Robyn has cleverly combined her professional acumen with her experience of life to produce this wonderfully practical parenting handbook. Yvonne Godfrey, Founder of MIOMO (Making It On My Own), author & host parent on reality TV show, The World's Strictest Parents.
What a heap of wonderful and VERY practical observations, suggestions and useful advice, supported by research, to guide even the most confused parent and every family, regardless of age and stage of children, (even for grannies!). All presented in a very readable style - exactly what you would expect from Robyn. I loved the concept of computer dollars. What an easy way to reinforce the idea that family life is made up of responsibilities as well as privileges. And sick of your children whingeing because they're not getting what they want? Check out Lesson 19 on lessons learnt from the French. What a pity Robyn wasn't writing when I was bringing up my children - I would have had a lot more answers! Anna Ryan, Ryan Publications.
Parents have so much information and advice to wade through, that to hear from a wise, sensible, funny and practical Mum and Grandma like Robyn, is very refreshing and helpful. Parents will pick up her book and find themselves nodding, feeling encouraged and empowered to make little and significant changes. This book offers interesting and practical tips from start to finish and includes current research. Robyn is "passing the baton on" in this wonderful book - her thoughts and reflections make absolute sense, are good for families and relationships and can be used in any family, no matter what size or shape. Jenny Hale, The Parenting Place.
