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Grocery lists. Checklists. To-do lists. Lots of people love--and live by--lists. And parents are no exception. Today's families are busier than ever, and moms don't have the time or energy to search and scramble for the parenting information they are desperately seeking. This handy, practical reference guide will save time, money, and sanity for today's busy women.
A Mom's Ultimate Book of Lists is your one-stop resource for more than 100 lists to live by, including: When to Call the Doctor Questions to Ask before Choosing a Pediatrician Sleep Training Your Baby Top Toys for the First Year Terrific Activities Toddlers Love Easy Steps for Taming Tantrums Feeding a Picky Eater Signs of a Family-Friendly Restaurant Common Childhood Allergies and Illnesses Instant Pick-Me-Ups and so much more Start saving your time, money, and sanity today!
To learn more, visit www.michellelarowe.com.
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Working Mom's 411 is your one-stop resource guide for navigating through the often choppy waters of managing kids, career and home. With extensive experience as a credentialed nanny, household manager and as a working mom herself, Michelle is sure to make you laugh out loud as she shares her expert take on the common dilemmas that working mothers face.
At your fingertips, you will find expert advice, up to date information and tried-and-true tips on everything from choosing childcare to streamlining housework, homework and more. You'll discover super solutions to problems big and small from learning how to let go of that all-too-familiar working moms guilt to dealing with family and friends who have different ideas about home moms and careers should mix. Buy Now!
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America's nanny offers a large dose of healthy parenting advice with secrets for raising happy, secure, and well-balanced babies and toddlers.
Babies don't come with instructions. And since today's parents are so overwhelmed with schedules and demands, they have little time to bone up on their parenting skills. Often removed from grandparents and relatives who in times past lived next door or just down the street, they have no one to guide them through the disorienting world of raising children. Enter Nanny to the Rescue! Michelle LaRowe, 2004 International Nanny Association "Nanny of the Year," gives her tried and true solutions to childcare. Her expertise with chapters titled "Who's the boss?" and "Discipline is not a four letter word" gives confidence to parents who need specific ideas for real day-to-day problems. A proud member of Christian Nannies, Michelle offers foundational truths sure to help encourge moms and dads.
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Faced with multiple choices regarding school, friends, and activities coupled with the ever-widening influence of the outside world, parents of 6-12 year olds need help. America's nanny is back to offer a large dose of healthy parenting advice with secrets for raising happy, secure, and well-balanced children.
Michelle LaRowe is the 2004 International Nanny Association Nanny of the Year. A career nanny specializing in caring for twins, Michelle has over a decade of nanny experience. Although she holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry, she has found her true calling, working as a professional nanny.
Michelle is an active member of the nanny community. She is the founder and president of Boston Area Nannies, Inc., a local non profit educational organization and has served on the International Nanny Association Board of Directors for the past five years. During that time she has also served as the associations 1st Vice President. Michelle is also a proud member of Christian Nannies.
She is called on by the media as a nanny and parenting expert, and has been affectionately dubbed America's Nanny. Michelle has appeared on television and has been featured in print. She is the author of the new parenting series, Nanny to the Rescue!, a contributing writer in the Experts' Guide to the Baby Years and a regular columnist in several parenting publications, including Twins Magazine.
To learn more about Michelle and to get your parenting tip of the day, please visit www.michellelarowe.com.
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Start off the New Year Right! The Importance of Family Traditions
Every child needs to identify with their family unit and feel like they belong. Family traditions give children that sense of deep connection they so desire. If children do not feel like they belong to their family, they will seek out that sense of belonging and identity elsewhere. This can be in gangs or in other undesirable social groups. While we all have family traditions, whether we call them that or not, think about having a family tradition for each month of the year.
Check out this list of ideas to get you started.
January: Adopt a charity to support for the year, take a polar plunge, take an annual family photo
February: Send Valentine’s Day cards to nursing home residents, make homemade chocolates
March: Attend Easter service, color eggs, have an Easter egg hunt, attend an Easter parade
April: Spring cleaning, attend a baseball game
May: Have a Mother’s day dinner, host a Memorial Day cookout, make and deliver homemade cookies to patients of a veteran’s hospital
June: Have an annual family reunion, Have a Father’s day dinner
July: Host a Fourth of July BBQ, watch Fireworks, attend a local state fair
August: Take a family vacation, go on a weekend camping trip, have back yard Olympics
September: Apple picking, visit a farm, have an apple pie bake off
October: Host a harvest party, go pumpkin picking, go for a hayride, make a scarecrow
November: Watch a Thanksgiving Day parade, eating Thanksgiving dinner together, make a list of all the things that you are thankful for
December: Cut down your own Christmas tree, make a new Christmas ornament, attend Christmas Eve service together, eat Christmas dinner together, donate toys to a needy family
Top 15 Family Traditions
According to “The Emergence and Practice of Ritual in the American Family,” a report by Jay D. Schvaneveldt and Thomas R. Lee published in Family Perspective the top 15 family traditions of 1983 were:
- 1. Christmas
- 2. Birthdays
- 3. Family Vacation
- 4. Easter
- 5. Sunday Dinner
- 6. Visits to Relatives
- 7. Fixed Time for Supper
- 8. Thanksgiving
- 9. Family Reunions
- 10. Family Prayer
- 11. Housecleaning Routines
- 12. New Year’s Day
- 13. New Year’s Eve
- 14. Father Cooking Dinner
- 15. Dinner Table Seating
Michelle LaRowe, A Mom’s Ultimate Book of Lists, Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group, January, 2010.Used by permission. All rights to this material are reserved. Material is not to be reproduced, scanned, copied, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without written permission from Baker Publishing Group. http://www.bakerpublishinggroup.com.
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