Book Nook: Time to Parent - Organizing Your Life to Bring Out the Best in Your Child and You

New York Times bestselling organizing guru Julie Morgenstern offers parents a brilliant, time-management guide to bring out the best in their kids and in themselves - Time to Parent: Organizing Your Life to Bring Out the Best in Your Child and You. 

Balancing raising a human and being a human is not easy. Conflicting priorities make parents feel divided, stretched thin, and guilty because whatever their focus is in a given moment, they feel like they’re neglecting something else. It’s hard to be present when the job feels ambiguous, infinite, and ill-defined.

Bringing together nearly three decades of work coaching parents around the world, her extensive review of the research in the field of human development, and her own experience as a parent, Julie Morgenstern helps systematically tackle the job of parenting—by simplifying it, organizing it, and providing concrete strategies to keep all the balls in the air.

This practical guide includes:

●      A unique framework that distills the responsibilities of parenting into eight quadrants, encompassing everything you need to balance your time.

●      Practical techniques to stay present and focused, whether you’re playing with your kids, enjoying a meal with your significant other, or getting ahead on that big proposal for work.

●      Research backed insights on how short bursts of undivided attention, (five to fifteen minutes) delivered consistently, can transform you child’s life and yours.

●      Permission to take personal time without feeling guilty, and the science and case studies to show how important self-care is and how to make time for it.

For families of all configurations, with newborns or kids in high school, TIME TO PARENT solves the universal problem of how to manage the conflicting priorities of the parenting years while creating quality time with your kids and for yourself. At last we have a way to find a healthy balance between raising a human and being a human.

About the author:

Julie Morgenstern is the author of five previous books, including the New York Times bestsellers Organizing from the Inside Out and Time Management from the Inside Out, and an internationally renowned organization consultant who has shared her expertise on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, and more.