Getting a Grip on Parenting Time

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 house Making time for each child Coping with technology Fast and healthy food - yes, you can have both! Getting teenagers to take responsibility How 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 tips Think like a nanny - and get the chores done earlier And heaps more ... Grab it now.