The Working Parents' Handbook: How to Succeed at Work, Raise Your Kids, Maintain a Home, and Still Have Time for You [Paperback]

Katherine Murray (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1996

The how-to guide for all working parents--especially single parent families, this entertaining reference helps families make all types of important decisions. Tips, checklists, and graphics are used to keep the book light, friendly and usable.

Product Details

• Paperback: 275 pages
• Publisher: Park Avenue Productions (March 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571120750
• ISBN-13: 978-1571120755
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,459,777 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Hi! Thanks for checking out my books. I've been writing about all kinds of topics--technology, digital lifestyle, parenting, nature, eco-spirituality, fundraising, and more--for more than 20 years, and I still love it. Writing lets me follow my curiosities (Mango, Windows 8, green tech, and more), explore what fascinates me, and then share what I learn with readers. I love that! My most recent books include "My Windows 7 PC" (Que, 2011), "Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime" (Microsoft Press, 2011), and "Listening to the Earth: Meditations on Experiencing and Belonging to Nature" (Lorian Press, 2011). I hope one of these books--or another book you find today--meets a need you have or answers a question you've been wondering about. Thank you for taking a look at my work! Kind regards, Katherine

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4.0 out of 5 stars Useful resource for working parents, March 30, 1999

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This review is from: The Working Parents' Handbook: How to Succeed at Work, Raise Your Kids, Maintain a Home, and Still Have Time for You (Paperback)

Whether it's how to organize one's home, help create a family-friendly workplace or deal with the stress of working and rearing children, this book is an invaluable resource for employed parents. Human resource directors and parent educators may also use this handy volume as a supplement to their information and training sessions. Underlying the many useful tips and how-to's are some positive principles for individual and family life. Among these are: the value of knowing your own strengths, challenges and beliefs; the joy of accepting self and others; the usefulness of employing what Diana Baumrind first charcterized as authoritative parenting, which maintains a balance of warmth and control. Gearing parenting strategies to the developmental stage of the child is another plus in Murray's approach. The book itself is "user-friendly" in format featuring graphics and narratives with notes, sidebars and checklists. Topics covered include current family configurations, family priorities and mission statements, childcare options, employment issues, organization and delegation of tasks, stress management and flexible workplace policy ideas. One of the most appealing features is the use of stories from other working parents and their worst and best moments. Murray's concluding words capture the essence of her joining attitude: ". . . knowing we're not alone in this balancing act is a comforting thought. People before us and people after us will face the same impossible schedules, the same runny noses, the same mad morning rushes to the car, and the same startled faces when we pull baby bibs from our briefcases. Parents all over the world will worry about the care their children are receiving, fret over the issue of quantity versus quality time, pray that the educational system is doing its job, and hope that someday--down the road--they'll know they made the right choices" (p. 258). Reading Murray's book, in my opinion, will be one of those right choices. Phyllis Michael, Associate Professor of Human Development Warner Pacific College Portland, Oregon