The Mom Book: Insider Tips to Ensure Your Child Thrives in Elementary and Middle School

by Stacy M. DeBroff and Dashka Slater

Book Overview

SMART SOLUTIONS ABOUT ALMOST
EVERYTHING FOR MOMS, FROM MOMS
Created by hundreds of contributing mothers from the MomCentral.com community and Stacy DeBroff, The Mom Book features lists, tips, stories, and defining principles for everything from hiring a nanny to setting up a home office to surviving a rainy day at home. Here are answers to on-the-spot questions about fussy eaters, tantrums, starting school, work-family balance,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684871467
• ISBN13: 9780684871462
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 704 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Loved the Insider tips!

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.

A Terrific Gift for Moms

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!

This is the ULTIMATE parenting book

This book is almost 700 pages long and it covers it ALL! And the Index makes it easy to find things. Plus you find you're not the only person who has problems with breastfeeding, teacher's conferences, Sleepovers, Whatever... The section I personally found most helpful was on Home pool (we don't have one, but my parents do, and we had to make some adjustments, which I wouldn't have known if I hadn't read the book). I love the moms' comments. These are people who have been there... This is real life advice from real mom...if you only take ten things to heart, it's well worth the price. Very HIGHLY recommended.

A welcome parenting resource!

When my friends and I (working and stay at home moms) get together the conversation invariably gravitates to the many challenges we face as busy parents with busy lives. In The Mom Book, Stacy DeBroff has creatively compiled hundreds of useful tips and suggestions to help busy parents with busy lives get through the day. I have always found it helpful and reassuring to brainstorm with other moms and now there is an excellent resource that does just that in a well-organized, easy to use format. Whether you are a new or experienced mom, The Mom Book will be a welcome addition to your parenting reference collection.

DeBroff Knows Moms! This is a great book!

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.