Organizing Your Home & Family [Paperback]

Sandra Felton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2005

All moms want a neat house, cooperative kids, and a fair distribution of work. But what they often get are messy kids with messy bedrooms. In Organizing Your Home & Family, Sandra Felton shows moms how to get their families to pitch in without complaining. Helpful letters from other moms, lists of related books and web sites, and other practical tools found in this book will help readers keep their houses organized, neat, and visitor-ready. Previously published as Neat Mom, Messie Kids

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A survival guide for neat (and not-so-neat) moms What you want is a neat house, cooperative kids, and a fair distribution of work. But what you have are kids with messy bedrooms who kids who drag their feet when it comes to doing chores. If you're tired of acting as "drill-sergeant mom" and want a more effective (and nicer) way to get your kids to pitch in without complaining, then this is the book for you. Organizing Your Home & Family will show you how to transform your house into a home of order and dignity-the home you've always wanted. With step-by-step instructions, letters from other moms, lists of helpful books and websites, and other practical tools, you'll discover easy ways to simplify, sort, and store-and get your kids to help out too. It's not too late to organize your runaway house! A cleaner, more organized home is within reach. Let the Organizer Lady™ show you how to turn the chaos of your house into the castle of your dreams!

About the Author

Sandra Felton is the best-selling author of several books, including The Messies Manual, Living Organized and Smart Organizing. She lives in Miami, Florida.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Revell (October 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0800787188
• ISBN-13: 978-0800787189
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,925,788 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars All about controlling kids, April 28, 2006

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The title of the book "organizing your home and family" led me to believe that there would be lots of info on setting up systems for organization in a family home (lots of food, lots of toys, lots of books, lots of school papers, lots of mail, etc.) What this seemed to be mostly about is getting your family to help you. The first part examines the mother and why she might not be getting the cooperation she needs from the family (including husband), and the second part has info about putting systems in place to get your kids to help. I have 3 kids, 4, 6 and 8 years old who help me when I ask. I never have to nag. My problem is figuring out how the process should work so my willing family can help. So, this book was pretty useless to me. I admit that I did not read it from cover to cover word for word because I just couldn't get interested. The info was either old news to me or unnecessary. If you have an uncooperative family and are nagging all the time, I think this would be a great help.