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Summary: Learn to Simplify Your Lifestyle
Review: "So You Want to Be a Stay-at-Home Mom," is a been-there, done-that, how-to read. Reassuring. Faith-full. A must for any working mom longing to simplifying her lifestyle. Oh, how I wish this book had been available to me when I was raising my children. Something to let me know I wasn't alone. A fine gift for modern-day moms.
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Summary: Thinking About Coming Home? I'm Here to Help
Review: "So You Want to Be a Stay-at-Home Mom" is a classic been-there, done-that book. A lot of you searching for this book at Amazon.Com have heard my radio or TV interviews on this subject, and have heard the voices of call-in listeners. So many are wondering, "How can I make this work for my family?" "So You Want to Be a Stay-at-Home Mom" gives practical tips in an inspirational format on everything from finances to self-image to support groups to keeping your foot in the door at work, just in case you want to ease back in when the kids are a little older. If you want to spend more time with your children, but aren't sure how to make that dream come alive, "So You Want to Be a Stay-at-Home Mom" is the book for you.
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Summary: Learn to Simplify Your Lifestyle
Review: "So You Want to Be a Stay-at-Home Mom," is a been-there, done-that, how-to read. Reassuring. Faith-full. A must for any working mom longing to simplifying her lifestyle. Oh, how I wish this book had been available to me when I was raising my children. Something to let me know I wasn't alone. A fine gift for modern-day moms.
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Summary: Want to be a stay-at-home mom? Here's how!
Review: Are you thinking about making the move out of the rat race and into the home front? Perhaps you are wondering whether being at home full time is for you or how you can make ends meet. This book tells you what being a stay-at-home mom is like from the perspective of one who is doing it. Step-by-step practical tips show how you can make the change. In this book you'll learn how to [ ] evaluate your financial situation
[ ] find ways to live better on less
[ ] keep up on your career skills so you can return to the workforce
[ ] plan creative activities with your kids
[ ] get the support and encouragement you need This guilt-free guide will help you decide what is best for you and your family--whether that means staying in a full-time job, making the transition to part-time work, starting a home-based business or being at home full time. "Cheryl has provided financial, emotional and practical information to encourage and educate women about making full-time motherhood a reality." Jill Savage, Hearts at Home "A must-read for any mother contemplating leaving the workforce to stay at home with her children. . . . Mothers already at home will also appreciate Cheryl's insights into creating a balanced and happy life. This book is not only informative, but inspirational and fun to read." Jeanette Lisefski, National Association of At-Home Mothers "This is one of the most needed and exciting books I've seen in years. In fact, Cheryl seems to have taken the words out of my own heart! In a delightfully readable style, this book affects every area of a mother's heart thoughtfully, practically and with both balance and wisdom. A book every young mother needs to read, whether or not she knows it!" Grace Ketterman, M.D., pediatrician and author Cheryl Gochnauer is a stay-at-home mom living in Kansas City, Missouri, with her husband and two children. She writes regularly for the Kansas City Star and is the author of the Homebodies newsletter for stay-at-home moms. For more information, visit www.homebodies.org.
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Summary: An Author with a true Heart
Review: As a pastor's wife, I was thrilled to find a book I could recommend. I have given several copies away to women who have been yearning to come home. And I have a copy in our church library. It is conversational in tone and the applications are down-to-earth. It is meant to give the doubting hope that coming home is truly possible when realistic goals are set and met. Also, I have found that the author's webpage (homebodies.org) is an excellent source of encouragement as well. Gochnauer truly communicates heartfelt ministry.
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Summary: Excellent resource for any mom!
Review: Cheryl Gochnauer has written a concise, fun-to-read book that will be an encouragement to moms who are already home with their children, and one that will help women struggling with the decision to stay home make an educated decision. Gochnauer presents a very even-handed look at the pros and cons of being a stay-at-home mom and shares the personal experiences of many families as they made the decision to have mom "come home".
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Summary: Decision to Stay at Home is Assumed
Review: I did not find this book to be helpful in making my decision to stay at home. It seems to assume that everyone would make that decision given the financial stability necessary to do so. While it is based on Christian values, it often does so at the expense of sensibility, i.e., cashing out your 401K to stay at home. Even as a Christian, I found the biblical references a bit much. This book is probably beneficial if you are have already decided you want to stay at home and are looking for strategies and advice on how to facilitate your choice.
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Summary: A fairly good read!
Review: I found the book informative and it further confirmed my own views on this subject. However, it could have done without all the religious overtones. The author includes quotes from the Bible a number of times and talks about how her children should be raised with a religious influence in their lives. What has Christianity and religion got to do with staying at home with your children? The answer is "nothing", and it should have been kept out of the book!
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Summary: Inspiring and affirming
Review: I have reread this book several times to gather encouragement and strength from the struggles of quitting full-time teaching to be a stay-at-home mom in a culture where what you HAVE and what you DO is WHO you are. It describes the challenges and the thrills of being a parent. The author addresses the difficulties involved in quitting a career you are dedicated to in order to put your family first. The students I worked with (and mine too) were struggling in school with not enough support from home, where parents were too caught up in accomplishing work tasks that demanded priority over home tasks. This book refreshed and reminded me why it was important to focus on my growing family and not my possessions or my career. I can ALWAYS go back to teaching. My children won't always be at home needing my support.
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Summary: The title of the book is mis-leading...
Review: I was expecting to get a book that had practical advice for turning a two income family into one. Instead the book didn't contain many practical ideas and was filled with a heavy pro-christian agenda. I never realized that I could use giving children piano lessons as a method of not only picking up extra income, but I could turn it into an opportunity to covert children into my belief system. While I'm by no means anti-christian, the book doesn't help deal with many of the day to day lessons and issues that many of us face with making such a tough, and personal choice. To sum up the book, the lesson is that God will provide, which many of us are aware of from our Bible teachings. If you're looking for a handbook with good lessons, skip this book. If you're intersted in a sermon, this is the perfect book for you.
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