Stay-At-Home Handbook: Advice for Parenting, Finances, Career, Surviving Each Day & Much More Tapa blanda - 2002

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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.