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Posted by Blogmaster in Work at Home Books, tags: Children, Early, families, Home, Intervention, Needs, Practice, Special, Their, Visiting
- ISBN13: 9781557668851
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Home-Based Services give pre-service and in-service home visitors the tools they need to work effectively with young children and their families.
The Art and Practice of Home Visiting: Early Intervention for Children with Special Needs and Their Families
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With many families having both parents working in order to provide for their household, some struggle with leaving their babies or toddlers in a full-time day care situation. Moms and dads go through conflicting emotions over this separation, as well as a strained budget from the day care costs. Thousands of parents across the country have found a solution to this dilemma by working from home. But how can you work from home with a baby, a toddler or small children and still have a good career? Amy Shankland’s book, How to Work at Home with Small Children, is an easy-to-read guide that helps new parents answer this question. It gives parents tips on how to prepare for a work at home career; ideas on what type of job to either create or look for that is suitable for working at home with little ones; how to plan a work day; and how to overcome problems. The book also features Shankland’s humorous columns about her own work at home adventures.
How to Work at Home with Small Children
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al trends, this book details the pressures–both psychological and cultural–which force women into the role of primary parent. Peters provides hands-on, practical strategies to help mothers balance work, family, and self.Amazon.com Review
Here’s a radical concept: motherhood, as it is currently envisioned and practiced in American culture, is bad for the family. This theory is the heart of Joan K. Peters’s controversial When Mothers Work, a book guaranteed to make readers question everything they thought they believed about parenting. In Peters’s view, the myth of the perfect mother, who is not only willing but glad to make huge sacrifices for her children, is really a trap that creates unhappy, unfulfilled parents and miserable children. Why, Peters asks, do we assume that the transformation into primary caregiver and ultimate authority on all things having to do with home and child is welcomed by women? Why is it that the birth of a baby radically changes most mothers’ lives while fathers often go essentially untouched? Peters is not afraid to question the sanctity–or the satisfaction–of motherhood; she points out that parenting, as it is organized today, requires women to make most of the sacrifices and take on most of the stress while depriving men of both the responsibilities and the rewards of being a parent. Many of these arguments have been made before, but what makes Peters’s book both unique and persuasive is that she doesn’t assign blame to men only; she is quick to point out that it is women themselves who are often reluctant to give up the lion’s share of responsibility for child rearing. Yet, in order for families to be truly functional, mothers must share parenting equally and accept that, while men may nurture children differently, they are just as effective. Happy children require happy parents, Peters argues, and having a life and identity outside of the home is essential to both men and women. When Mothers Work is a thoughtful critique of the state of American parenting today and a blueprint for change.
When Mothers Work: Loving Our Children Without Sacrificing Our Selves
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- ISBN13: 9781558749603
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From one of the movement’s most respected leaders, the complete resource for Adult Children of Alcoholics. When they were first released in the 1980s, Janet Woititz’s groundbreaking works, Adult Children of Alcoholics, Struggle for Intimacy and The Self-Sabotage Syndrome, provided a new message of hope to adult children who had grown up in the shadow of alcoholic parents. Their message today is as profound and timeless as it was two decades ago. Now, in this complete collection, readers will learn again the insight and healing power of Janet Wotitiz’s words. The Complete ACoA Sourcebook is a compilation of three of Dr. Woititz’s classic books, addressing head-on the symptoms of The Adult Children of Alcoholics syndrome and providing strategies for living a normal life as an adult. Readers will find help for themselves: at home, in intimate relationships and on the job. They will discover the reasons for the way they think, believe and feel about themselves; ACoAs often feel isolated, have difficulty in relationships, in the workplace and in feeling good about themselves. Readers who are familiar with Woititz’s work will find wisdom once again in this classic collection. Those new to ACoA will gain fresh insight into their behavior patterns and find an avenue for self-love and healing. Noted ACoA expert Dr. Robert Ackerman, author of the best-selling Perfect Daughters and Silent Sons, provides a foreword and explains why Janet Woititz’s message will continue to help millions of readers for generations to come.
The Complete ACOA Sourcebook: Adult Children of Alcoholics at Home, at Work and in Love
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Posted by Blogmaster in Working Mother Books, tags: *Organize, Career, Children, Enjoying, Feeling, Guilty, Life, Mother's, Start, Stop, Working
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Motherhood comes naturally.Working motherhood doesn’t. So admit it. You need some help. Though there’s not a full-time nanny inside this book, there’s information on how to find one. This is the book for you if you can’t spare even five minutes to use your common sense. It’s all laid out for you in how-to, when-to lists — and plenty of stories from mothers like you — that will help you get it all together. Well . . . as together as it’s ever going to be. Here’s where you’ll learn everything you need to get your life in order: - How to create a home where people actually hang up their jackets
- What to do with all those indispensable spelling tests and toddler works of art
- How to decide which type of child care is best for you at any given moment
- How to sort out the times you really have to be at your child’s school
- How a time-crazed mother can make, keep and entertain friends
- How to sign up for and transport children to after-school activities, sports, music lessons and play dates when you can’t be at any of them
- What to tell your boss when you don’t want to travel so much
- The lost art of raising respectful children
- The best way to date your husband
- The first rule of convenience for birthday parties
- Eleven ways to take care of yourself without taking any extra time
- And, finally, delegating responsibilities you thought were yours and yours alone
This practical strategy is for the millions of working mothers struggling to make it all work.Don’t let your guilt slow you down. Katherine Wyse Goldman interviewed hundreds of mothers to come up with the tips, plans of action and decisions that have worked for career women around the country. Here’s everything you need when you want to get control of your time, your life and your future. Here’s how to make your home run as smoothly as a Fortune 500 corporation.
Working Mothers 101: How to Organize Your Life, Your Children, and Your Career to Stop Feeling Guilty and Start Enjoying it All
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The book contains the results of the author’s in-depth interviews and representative surveys of how children view their parents working. The author presents the first comprehensive study ever conducted that asks children and parents their views on work and family life. This book was five years in the making. The author covers all the typical areas of thinking today about parents whom work and their children. The result is stereotypes are destroyed and politically correct ideas challenged. The reader will find practical advice for a better family life and a new set of operating principles to help the parent be more in command and control at work and at home.
Ask the Children: What America’s Children Really Think About Working Parents
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In the five years following the passage of federal welfare reform law, the labor force participation of low-income, single mothers with young children climbed by more than 25 percent. With significantly more hours spent outside the home, single working mothers face a serious childcare crunch—how can they provide quality care for their children? In “Putting Children First,” Ajay Chaudry follows 42 low-income families in New York City over three years to illuminate the plight of these mothers and the ways in which they respond to the difficult challenge of providing for their children’s material and developmental needs with limited resources. Using the words of the women themselves, Chaudry tells a startling story. Scarce subsidies, complicated bureaucracies, inflexible work schedules, and limited choices force families to piece together care arrangements that are often unstable, unreliable, inconvenient, and of limited quality. Because their wages are so low, these women are forced to rely on inexpensive caregivers who are often under-qualified to serve the developmental needs of their children. Even when these mothers find good, affordable care, it rarely lasts long because their volatile employment situations throw their needs into constant flux. The average woman in Chaudry’s sample had to find five different primary caregivers in her child’s first four years, while over a quarter of them needed seven or more in that time. This book lets single, low-income mothers describe the childcare arrangements they desire and the ways that options available to them fail to meet even their most basic needs. As Chaudry tracks these women through erratic childcare spells, he reveals the strategies they employ, the tremendous costs they incur and the anxiety they face when trying to ensure that their children are given proper care. Honest, powerful and alarming, “Putting Children First” gives a fresh perspective on work and family for the disadvantaged. It infuses a human voice into the ongoing debate about the effectiveness of welfare reform, showing the flaws of a social policy based solely on personal responsibility without concurrent societal responsibility, and suggesting a better path for the future.
Putting Children First: How Low-wage Working Mothers Manage Child Care
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Dispelling our most cherished myths about working mothers, Suzanne Venker argues that woman can’t be successful in the workplace and at home simultaneously. They can achieve the balance they so desperately seek only by planning their careers around motherhood, rather than planning motherhood around their careers. Ms. Venker fearlessly tackles the most contentious issues of working motherhood: women’s equality, family economics, the notion of “quality time,” women’s guilt and stress, and daycare. In each chapter, she exposes a different myth about working mothers, drawing on extensive research and her own experience as a mother and a teacher. The result is a powerful case for the link between the problems of today’s children and the absence of mothers from the home. “If motherhood were viewed as the full-time job it is,” Ms. Venker contends, “it would not be considered something we could do on the side, and women would be less inclined to try to balance career and motherhood, only to discover, many stress-filled years later, that it cannot be done.” 7 Myths of Working Mothers is a bold call to shift our priorities from the feverish pursuit of professional success to the more satisfying nurturing of our children. Dr. Laura praises 7 Myths of Working Mothers: “I am grateful for this book. Ms. Venker’s contribution to humanity, to families, to marriages, to women is huge. In a way, it is sad that she’s got to argue points to prove what ought to be a “given”. On the other hand her arguments are beautifully crafted, and right on target for today’s anti-childrearing atmosphere. My hope for you, the reader, is that after you read this book, you will be unwavering in your commitment to do the right thing, and reap the incredible rewards.”
7 Myths of Working Mothers: Why Children and Careers Just Don’t Mix
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