Book description
Do you ever find it hard to remember how you ever found the time to
have your kids in the first place? Do you ever find yourself completely
sapped with exhaustion, but still feel as though you haven't done half
the things you needed to get done today? Imagine reading this job
advertisement in a newspaper: POSITION AVAILABLE PARENT, full-time: long
days, seven days a week, some time off in the evenings. While no
previous experience is necessary, the applicant must demonstrate the
following. *You must be a kind, considerate person. *This position
requires a competent self-starter with excellent communication skills.
*Must be able to provide an atmosphere of love and support. *The ability
to be adaptable and flexible is essential.*Strong leadership skills an
advantage. *A willingness to put yourself second is required.
*Entertainment skills will be highly regarded though great talent in
this area not essential. *Must be able to work with limited supervision
and be on-call 24 hrs a day. *Current driver's licence would be an
advantage. *Duties include: cooking, cleaning, teaching, nursing,
social-working, psychology, conflict resolution, driving, buying,
selling, managing, entertaining, general administration and washing the
dog. Although this is a non-paying, voluntary and life-long position, a
modest salary package of joy, laughter and affection is included to help
prevent you from walking out. Sounds familiar? Well, Great Ideas for
Tired Parents is a book for you. Whether you are a working, at-home,
single, married or step parent, Michael Grose has designed this guide to
help you reclaim some of yourself and your time in order to feel better
within yourself and actually be a better parent too. Great Ideas for
Tired Parents is full of practical ideas and examples of how to take
control over the way you live - and prevent the demands of others from
completely swamping you. Michael Grose takes tired parent readers
through these essential parenting how-to's: *How to recharge your
batteries and maintain yourself as a person *How to deal with a partner
who has a different approach*How to keep your cool in a crisis *How to
talk and become friends with your children *How to get children to help
*How to know what's a real worry and what's a myth *And how to enjoy
your kids and your life! He provides easy to use strategies that really
work, even when you feel right at the end of your tether. Michael
Grose is Australia's number-one parenting educator, with an enviable
track record of helping parents and professionals raise and teach
today's kids. His best-selling Why First Borns Rule the World has sold
over 23,000 copies. Michael is a regular weekly parenting columnist for
'Body and Soul' in Sydney's Sunday Telegraph, which has a circulation of
6 million. He has a popular website, www. parentingideas. com. au, which
parents find an invaluable source of easy-to-access information. On the
website he has information on all his books. He presents a half-hour
parenting segment each fortnight on ABC radio and appears regularly on
the national Australian television program 9AM, commenting on parenting
issues of the day. He is a popular speaker, giving up to 100 seminars
and presentations each year to parents and professionals in Australia
and in the United Kingdom. Michael is the only person to have conducted
a parenting seminar for a nation's leaders, when he ventured into
Parliament House, Canberra, in 2004 and addressed politicians on all
sides of the political fence about how to behave so your children will
too!
