For every parent who's struggled to get off to school with a smile and ready for a fun, productive day, 151 Ways to Help Your Child Have a Great Day at School is a life-saver. Filled with 151 easy-to-do strategies and activities, Robin McClure gives the best tips for helping children get excited and make the most of their school day, every day:Breakfast can be the most important brain food of the day.Each day after school, ask your child what were the three BEST things that...

Knack Parenting a Preschooler provides busy parents with a visually driven reference filled with information about behaviors, general care advice, and skills development for the three- to five-year-old age group. Also covering preschoolers’ vastly changing abilities, it guides parents skills needed for beginning school successfully and what to expect from different types of preschools (e.g., Montessori, child-centered, parent co-op). Coauthored by an M.D. and an educator, it organ...

After a summer of fun, helping children start the school year with the right attitude can make or break their level of success that year. In 151 Ways to Start the School Year Off Right, Robin McClure offers parents easy-to-do strategies and activities for helping children start the year off on the right foot:Begin adjusting sleep schedules at least three weeks prior to the first day of school.Proclaim the day before the school year starts as belonging to your child.

You have a sink full of dishes to wash, three loads of laundry to do, seventeen bills to pay, thirty-six e-mails to answer, a big stack of novels on the nightstand you’d love to read, and zero minutes of free time. You can’t add more hours to the day, but Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro®, will help you make the most of the time you have and get things done.The Productivity Pro® helps you determine what you have under control and where you need to improve. Are you good at managing...

Creative folks often know all too well that the muse doesn’t always strike when you want it to, or when the deadline for your next brilliant project is creeping up on you like an ill-fitting turtleneck. Originality doesn’t follow a time clock, even when you have to. While conventional time management books offer tons of instruction for using time wisely, they are traditionally organized in a linear fashion, which just isn’t helpful for the right-brain mind. In Time Management for t...

Meet a procrastinator: Me! After years of struggling to live with schedules and to-do lists, I began discovering how to get things done without forcing myself into a structure I couldn't live with. This book is the result.People like me (and perhaps you) who thrive on flexibility and spontaneity sometimes give up on time management because all that structure simply doesn't work for us. Dreams go unfulfilled, chaos takes over, and we resign ourselves to a life that is less than we ho...

A warm, inspiring, and practical handbook for at-home moms, by a television celebrity and mother of five.National television personality and mother of five Rachel Campos-Duffy presents a new way of looking at stay at-home motherhood that will transform the way readers view their days, their family, and their home.With practical advice and candid, engaging stories from her own life and other moms who are making it all work, mothers will learn about:?...

A Girl's Guide to Growing UpBeing a girl is a lot of fun most of the time. But some days are really difficult. Dealing with a body that is changing before everyone's eyes, increasing amounts of schoolwork, boys, other girls, friends, makeup, clothing, parents. Wow! Life as a preteen or early-teen girl is tough, and that's why every girl has questions about growing up. Fortunately, now you have some help.Girls: What's So Bad About Being Good?

Have you ever wished you could slow down the daily grind—and even find a way to enjoy it?All too often, the hectic pace of modern life turns our households into a blur, leaving many parents—and kids—feeling depleted and disconnected. Enter Slow Family Living, an inspiring guide for parents who want to rediscover the meaning, comfort, and contentment found in the day to day of family life.Offering 75 simple ideas for reconnecting, this upbeat and invaluable resource...

A groundbreaking and inspiring book that challenges our relationship with alcohol by exploring the psychological factors behind alcohol use and the cultural influences that contribute to dependency.Many people question whether drinking has become too big a part of their lives, and worry that it may even be affecting their health. But, they resist change because they fear losing the pleasure and stress-relief associated with alcohol, and assume giving it up will inv...

Discover how to create order in your home and life with this “chatty and personal” (Chicago Tribune) guide from the FlyLady“Take off with FlyLady! Her down-to-earth writing will help anyone who desires to be lifted free from the chaos and confusion disorder causes.”—Pam Young and Peggy Jones, coauthors of Sidetracked Home Executives: From Pigpen to ParadiseFly out of CHAOS (Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome) into Order—one b...

Why do over 100 million Americans secretly feel frustrated and bored with their lives? This hands-on guide from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Let Them Theory and The High 5 Habits explores that phenomenon—and reveals what you can do about it.Mel Robbins, one of America’s top relationship experts, has spent her career teaching people how to push past their self-imposed limits to get what they truly desire. She has an in-d...