The Balanced Mom: Raising Your Kids Without Losing Your Self

by Bria Simpson and Bria Simpson MA

Taking Care of You Is Not Just Okay-It's Essential

Does being a mother mean that you have to give up your self? Of course it doesn't. You can be a great mom and still have a life of your own. In fact, your kids will only benefit from seeing you as a whole person and will develop greater independence and a stronger sense of who they are as people. If you're ready to rediscover your self, The Balanced Mom offers dozens of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572244534
• ISBN13: 9781572244535
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Balance...it's what every mom needs!

The Balanced Mom is an easy to follow, step by step guide to help moms find the delicate balance between work, family and self. Broken down into manageable bite sized chunks makes the tips and suggestions realistic enough to incorporate into mom's already overly extended day. Any mom will benefit when they learn how to more effectively balance their lives. This book helps to show them how. Debi Silber (Registered Dietitian, Certified Personal Trainer, Whole Health Coach)

Loved the Book

Being a Mom of 4 my life always feels our of balance. This book has such great tips and ideas for helping me try to put my life back in balance. I liked that it is a very easy read. I can read a few pages, put it down, and easily get back into it without having to read half the book over to figure out what I was reading last. Many of the ideas are easy to incorporate into your life. It like that the chapters are short and very well organized. If I find there's a part of my life that needs a little bit more balance I can easily just go to that chapter and find great ideas. I read the whole book through in 1 day and that was with many many interruptions from my kids and husband. Now as I work on different areas of my life I plan to focus more on the different chapters that pertain to those areas. I recommend this book to anyone who would like to try to put more balance into their lives. There are so many tips and ideas that I think everyone will find a few things in the book that will help I also like that she stresses that what works one day may not work another. I've read a lot of books about stress relief and getting organized and putting balance into your life and so many of them have such rigid routines or complicated plans that the book ends up being another source of stress. I don't find that with this book. Quick tips that help!!

Great tips for every mom

It is so easy to fall into the trap of trying to be the "perfect mom," i.e., devoting yourself to your children 24/7. This book assures you that the best kind of mom takes care of herself as well as her children, and that everyone in the family benefits as a result. This is not an abstract "theory" book but gives quick, practical tips that are easy to read and implement. As a full time grad student and the mother of a toddler and infant I found much in this book that is valuable and affirming. I would highly recommend this to any mom.

Something here for EVERY Mom

There is not a single mom in this world who couldn't benefit from this book. Whether you're a stay-at-home mom, a working-outside-the-home mom, an older mom, a brand new mom, a mother of one or a mother of six, Bria Simpson has captured the lessons we all need to be reminded of so that we can be great people as well as great moms. Motherhood is the most important undertaking of our lives, and the author understands this. What she also understands is that great moms are also great women, and that we too often lose ourselves in the rush of carpools, soccer games, work, daycare, homework, laundry, meetings, doctor's visits, etc etc. The great thing about this book is that the tips offered can be put into practice the day you read them. In fact, the ones I found most helpful are really simple things I theoretically knew were correct, but had somehow managed to let slide as I got more and more carried away by the kid-tide! We often just need a gentle nudge to do what we already know is good for us. That's what this book gives you. It also gave me new ideas on how to better my parenting skills, as well as my relationship with my husband. Probably the most important thing this book helps you do is take stock of your day-to-day life so that you can start making some critical choices about how you spend your time. I will buy it for all the moms I care about this coming Mother's Day.

MUST READ FOR ALL MOMS! Great shower gift.

This book is fantastic and a must-read for all moms, especially new moms trying to figure it all out. I have a toddler and I wish I had read this book when she was first born - especially with your first child you can tend to fall into the "mommy martyr" trap and convince yourself that you have to spend every waking moment with your child but then wind up resenting your husband (who gets to go to work and be "free"!) or even the baby. This book has concise and practical steps for climbing out of that trap that we ALL fall into. Short chapters are the best part! Even if you pick up the book, make it through a few chapters and then forget about it for a few weeks, you can always come back to it and enjoy it just the same. I'll read it again when I have my next baby. Possibly the best value of any of the parenting guides out there. Put down the "What to Expect" book and pick up this one.