Product Description

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 identity
• feeling appreciated
• viewing childrearing as a valid career choice
• spending wisely
• resisting guilt
• evaluating work-at-home opportunities
• handling sibling rivalry
• volunteering at your child's school
• succeeding as a stay-at-home dad
• avoiding the TV
• getting help with chores
• setting a godly example
• nurturing your spiritual growth

Forty-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.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #357527 in Books
• Published on: 2002-03
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 201 pages

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Customer Reviews

Handbook?
I found this book to be mostly common sense. I didn't find anything in it that was revelation, or handbook worthy.

Disappointing
I was looking for something to help ease my transition from a full time professional to a full time mom. This book looked like the perfect title, but it's full of Christian references, which I found trite and condescending. Agnostics and Atheists love their children, too.
Couldn't finish the book.

not just for mom's and dad's!
Wether you are a stay at home aunt, uncle, grandma, grandpa - this book is great! This book gives a great insight on not only how to handle your life, but handle your kids and a life at the same time. The author really points out how being a stay at home "anything" really isn't that bad. I like the author's viewpoints and insight to make life easier for thoose of us who choose not to work, but to be there for our families full-time.

I hope to use a lot of the author's helpful advice even when I have kids of my own.

I take care of a lot of children and the advice and information that I have learned in this book has been a blessing.