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The Stay-at-Home Survival Guide: Field-Tested Strategies for Staying Smart, Sane, and Connected While Caring for Your Kids | 
 enlarge | Author: Melissa Stanton
Publisher: Seal Press
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 20520
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 386
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 1.2
ISBN: 1580052479
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.87430973
EAN: 9781580052474
ASIN: 1580052479
Publication Date: June 1, 2008
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Product Description
Melissa Stanton’s The Stay-at-Home Survival Guide is an all-encompassing, truth-telling how-to book that addresses the many practical and psychological issues facing stay-at-home moms today.
How do you create time for yourself? Is there really time to do it all (feed the kids, keep them busy, clean the house, balance the checkbook, and take a shower)? How do you deal with the absence of the “professional you"?
An invaluable resource for mothers, The Stay-at-Home Survival Guide includes interviews with stay-at-home moms, discussions with experts (family therapists, educators, medical specialists, career counselors), checklists to help you make the most of your time and keep you balanced, and Melissa Stanton’s own experiences leaving a career as an editor for People magazine to become a stay-at-home mom herself.
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Very reassuring October 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm a mom of new twins and bought two "survival guides." This one, for being a new stay at home mom and another one about being a new mom. The new mom guide, which is by a doctor, wasn't as useful as I'd hoped. (I bought it for the advice about regaining my body, but she doesn't really address what happened to my body due to twins.) But I'm really enjoying this book, which I'm reading a bit here and there since I don't have much time to do anything anymore. Melissa, the author, had twins (like me) and left a good job to be home with kids (also like me). I can totally relate to what she and the other moms in this book are saying, but I'm also finding her friendly writing reassuring about how hard it is to be by myself with babies and how everything in my life changed big time so fast. I'd recommend this book for any new stay at home mom who is feeling a bit alone and lost.
A "must have" book for any Stay-At-Home Mom. September 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been a Stay-At-Home mom for 12 years and this book is "spot on"! It's a practical, sensible, hands-on guide that covers all the issues and challenges of being a Stay-At-Home mom. I highly recommend this book for all Stay-At-Home moms and for any soon-to-be Stay-At-Home moms. Kudos to Melissa Stanton for such a well-thought out and well-written guide.
VALIDATING! August 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is refreshing in its honesty! Finally a REAL perspective on what it's like to be at home, with kids, all day, every day...and not loving it all day, every day. I found the book totally validating - I felt like the author had a window into my actual life. It's crystal clear that Melissa Stanton has walked the walk, and her perspective will make so many of us SAHMs feel supported and understood. I keep this book right next to my well-referenced collection of parenting books by the Sears and Brazeltons out there, but the difference is that THIS author has truly lived what I am living today. I am grateful to be a SAHM for my kids, but it certainly isn't a fairytale, and Melissa Stanton GETS IT. The good days are SO GOOD, and on the not-so-good days, I can pull out this book and remember that I am not alone. Finally, I feel connected, understood and supported. Thank you, Melissa, for being totally unapologetic and unflinching in your book - it's honest and real.
You are not alone August 18, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a fabulous must-read for all stay at home moms. You will relate with all of Melissa's joy and frustration simultaneously. While reading the book there were many moments where I felt understood for the ability to stay at home and parent my children as well as have a brain and think for myself. It is the toughest job that anyone could do and yet many women do it everyday without complaint. How does anybody do it? Melissa shows that it is alright to feel exhausted, complain, scream, cry and that you don't have to be perfect.
I love this book! June 26, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I love this book! I just got it and am still reading through it but I really love the way Stanton writes. Very natural, candid, anecdotal and entertaining yet getting some wonderful points across that will help so many of us moms cope with the day to day challenges and joys of parenting. I found myself nodding my head in agreement at so many of the observations she shares. This is a real world book for real world moms. I am going to bring this with me on vacation to share with my girlfriends who are fellow moms- lots of great conversation starters and wonderful coping strategies we can all use.
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