Stay-at-Home Handbook: Advice for Parenting, Finances, Career, Surviving Each Day & Much More

By Cheryl Gochnauer

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830823360
• ISBN13: 9780830823369
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: IVP
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

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.

A Wonderful Resource

Cheryl's book is a terrific resource for all stay-at-home parents. The book contains 42 short, power-packed chapters --each one a perfect blend of inspiration and information. Cheryl presents practical tips and suggestions on a wide range of topics, everything from homeschooling to housework to finances to home-based businesses. She shares many anecdotes and stories, drawing from her own experience, as well as the insights of dozens of other stay-at-home moms. Cheryl's approach is real and down to earth. She writes warmth and humor. In making recommendations, she never loses sight of the fact that one size does NOT fit all. She presents her readers with a number of different perspectives and approaches to each issue. The appendix lists more than 20 organizations and online sites that offer support and assistance to stay-at-home parents, including Gochnauer's own website: www.homebodies.org.

No SAHM should be without this book!

Cheryl Gochnauer does it again. Her insight into the life of a stay-at-home mom shines through this book in so many ways. There isn't a facet she doesn't touch on, whether it's finances, helping other moms who are struggling (being their Godsend), keeping your sanity through those long days, school cancellations woes, and overcoming the need to "do it all." There's a foreword by Dr. Laura Schlessinger that sheds a VERY interesting light on a stay-at-home vs. working-outside-the-home lifestyle.This book should be on the bookshelf of every parent....