Planning with Kids - by Nicole Avery (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Written by mother of five, Nicole Avery, this book shows harried parents how, with just a bit of planning, family life can become easier to manage, less stressful, and decidedly more fun. "Dream on," you say? "I might as well try to herd cats as to get my kids to follow a lot of arbitrary rules!" And Nicole would agree, which is why Planning with Kids isn't like any other parenting guide out there. It was inspired by Nicole's blog of the same name, which, over the past three years, has garnered a huge audience of likeminded parents who have achieved nothing short of miraculous results following her advice. While other prescriptive guides offer mums and dads cook-cutter solutions to the challenges of raising kids, this handbook focuses on one simple, straightforward idea: by implementing a few simple strategies for how you do things, you'll make more time for you to be you and your kids to be kids. You'll find strategies for streamlining and enhancing everything from the routines of daily life, to family relationships, to budgeting and finances, playtime and much more!

• Contains a full section on menus and cooking, including recipes, supported online by a planning-with-family meal planner
• Divided into sections so that readers can dip-in and dip-out for information as they need it as their family expands and grows up!

From the Back Cover

Calling all parents who STRESS on school mornings, cringe at the thought of cleaning or have mealtime meltdowns...this book is for you!

Family life can be chaotic -- whether you have one child or five. No-one knows this better than Nicole Avery, mum of five, blogger extraordinaire and lover of spreadsheets. Nicole has discovered the secret to taking the stress out of parenting and running a household: a little bit of planning can leave you with more time to have fun!

Planning with Kids will show you how to:

• plan a month's worth of evening meals in less than an hour

• use routines to make mornings manageable, evenings easier and 'me time' a reality

• organise your kids and partner to share in the housework without you nagging.

Learn how to organise your family chaos and have time left over to actually enjoy being a parent.

About the Author