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Summary: Fabulous tips!
Review: As a mom of twins, I loved all the great tips in this book--whenever I'm facing a new issue from fear of monsters at night to dueling temper tantrums, I pick the book and have come up with some really effective solutions. It's great to have all these tips in one place!
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Summary: Loved the Insider tips!
Review: As a mom of two young kids, I spend most of my time racing around trying to keep our house from looking as if it were hit by a cyclone, convincing my youngest to expand her tastes beyond spaghetti or macaroni and cheese, and breaking up the beginning of raging sibling fights over everything from toys to who picks the next video to watch. It's exhausting, and hard to believe that life at home could be so much harder than my days at the office. A number of good friends recommended the Mom Book to me, and then I heard the author on the radio. I love being able to grab the Mom Book and come up at a glance with great ideas such as temporary toy jail above the TV for all the toys being fought over, a "no-fault" policy that involves both kids taking a breather as a way to curtail sibling fights, or having a "who can crunch the carrot the loudest?" contest as a sneaky way to get my daughter to munch on a vegetable. This book gets my enthusiastic "Mom in the trenches" thumbs up.
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Summary: Very useful...
Review: As a mother and pediatrician, I was impressed by this work's usefulness to its target audience. As the title implies, it is chock-a-block full of tips which mother's of all ages will benefit from.
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Summary: A Terrific Gift for Moms
Review: As one of the hundreds of contributing moms in this book, I'm proud to present this review. The Mom Book is a compilation of tips from mothers, neatly arranged and expanded upon by author Stacy DeBroff. Topics covered range from Feeding your Children, to Getting (and staying) Organized, to Memories and Celebrations... and more in between. Whether the solutions offered are common sensical (Getting Organized: If you don't have a hall closet, set aside a place for shoes, coats, hats, and umbrellas near the front door. Without somewhere convenient to go, they'll wind up on chairs or on the floor.) or clever-as-can-be (Medical: numb the area of a splinter with teething medication prior to attempting to work it out), and whether the issue is day-to-day living (Homework) or life-changing (Divorce), the book offers insight useful to all moms. The scope of subject matter and variety of contributor experience result in a well- rounded book that sometimes contradicts itself... which seems OK, even expected, in this context. I'd call this book a deeply researched, personal, directory of tips and insights well worth keeping *and* passing along to *every* mom of growing children, on *any* occasion!
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Summary: A book for every parent!
Review: I am a single, working mother of two elementary aged children. This book offered me many great ideas from time saving tips to creating rituals to enhance my time with my children. If you are a parent, regardless of situation or Socioeconomic class, this book has something for you.
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Summary: I wanted to like this book
Review: I am acquainted with Stacy from our town, and was drawn to this tips book by all the glowing reviews. But you know, I think that the publisher must have had the contributors write up the reviews as an "inside" job. The book is OK, but I glaze over after so many pages of essentially small ideas. It's also geared toward pre-schoolers; maybe those moms lack experience or confidence. Anyway, for me this was not fun reading nor is it a valuable referece, but it is large and personally I don't think its worth the money or the storage space.
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Summary: DeBroff Knows Moms! This is a great book!
Review: I have been a DeBroff fan ever since her first organizer for moms came out a few years ago and her new book brings us more great ideas consolidated into one book! I am an experienced and very busy mother of three, with a husband who is never at home and I have yet to find a topic Ms. DeBroff investigates without coming up with some new tricks to try. To Disappointed, who gave the two star review, I've BEEN there -- with two kids in diapers and a dog who needed a diaper, worked too hard and been super organized and still can't do it all -- DON'T BLAME IT ON THE BOOK -- you need some girlfriend time, or just chat with some other moms while you have the kids with you if you can't arrange to go out alone.THIS BOOK WILL BE A GREAT HELP TO MOMS EVERYWHERE, ..., MAKE IT A COFFEE TABLE BOOK FOR THE Moms of the Under 12 set.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I picked this book up without examining it closely because I was looking for ideas to help me streamline my life while standing in a bookstore trying to restrain a two-year-old. I'm a mother who works full-time outside the home at a good job in an office environment. I have two children under the age of two, a husband and a dog. I do not have a nanny or a cleaning service. I cannot rearrange my schedule or work at home. I've read through most of this book so far and have yet to come up with anything new and helpful. If this was my only problem with the book I'd still rate it 3 or 4 stars, as I've read a lot on organization, so I'm probably a little jaded. But I found myself frustrated by the solutions suggested by people whose lifestyles were worlds away from my own. If you are looking for solutions like having the nanny bathe the kids before you come home after working late, ways to control the kids while you work part time at home (set guidelines for your "care provider"!), or ways to "relax and switch into your mommy role" on your presumably solitary commute home, this is your book. If like me you are more concerned with trying to run your life smoothly without outside help on a time schedule over which you have little control (set work hours, day care hours, etc.), keep looking.
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Summary: SO THRILLED SOMEONE DID THIS!!!!!
Review: I thought I had it good when Stacy DeBroff put together Mom Central so I couldn't have been more thrilled when Stacy took the time and effort to compile such a wonderful "tip" book for moms. It's so convenient to have all these tips in one place for when I don't have the time (which is very often) to do research or read up on a subject.
It's so comforting to know that these tips have come from other mother's just like myself who through their own trial and errors have come up with some super ideas to make it easier for those of us who haven't yet "been-there, done that."
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Summary: Famtastic
Review: Satcy DeBroff has written another great book for us moms looking for insider advice to make our lives as parents easier. I also get her biweekly newsletter full of tips that she sends our from [her website]. I love the clever ideas she offers up: everything from keeping a red wash cloth by your first aid kit so that you child doesn't freak out at the sight of blood to feeding your kids popsicles in the tub so you can just wash away all that blue or orange mess. I'm having such fun through this packed book getting great ideas.
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