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Author
Publisher
B & H Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xii, 226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Wife, mom, actress, philanthropist, author, speaker, and blogger Candace Cameron Bure (Full House) reaches out to women everywhere about the challenges and victories of faithfully balancing all of life's roles, responsibilities, and opportunities.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Masony founded her blog, That's Inappropriate, as an innocent and humorous way to chronicle her chaotic days as a working mom, child wrangler, and busy wife. It soon evolved into a community of parents brought together by their shared belief that parenthood and marriage don't have to be perfect. Her witty essays on the universal frustrations of being a mom in today's world--presenting her perspective on sex, aging, anxiety, friendship, and much more--provide...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 319 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a guide for new moms coping with the demands of the real world after childbirth, offering advice on everything from returning to work and maintaining a work/life balance to breastfeeding and obtaining childcare.
Author
Publisher
New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
xx, 178 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Would-be parents must navigate the decision to have children amidst a daunting combination of cultural expectations and hard facts. And new parents find themselves struggling to reconcile their elation with the often exhausting, confusing, and expensive business of child care. If parenting is making Americans unhappy, if it's impossible to "have it all, " if people don't have the economic, social, or political structures needed to support child rearing,...
Author
Publisher
McGraw Hill
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxi, 195 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"An empowering guide that will show you how to shed the myth of the "work-life balance" by merging the seven key components that make up your life to attain harmony and whole-life success "Work-life balance" is a phrase touted by companies and a state of being that each of us strive for, yet never seem to reach. In this eye-opening book, David. J. McNeff reveals that "balance" shouldn't be our end goal. Instead, he takes readers through the 7 different...
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book asks whether working mothers in America -- or anywhere -- can ever find true leisure time. Or are our brains, our partners, our culture, our bosses, making it impossible for us to experience anything but "contained time, " in which we are in frantic life management mode until we are sound asleep?"--
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Feminists opened up thousands of doors in the 1960s and 1970s, but decades later, are U.S. women where they thought they would be? The answer, it turns out, is a resounding no. Surely there have been gains. Women now comprise nearly 60 percent of college undergraduates and half of all medical and law students. They have entered the workforce in record numbers, making the two wage earner family the norm. But combining a career and family turned out...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xvii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The solution to the overload many modern moms feel, The Manager Mom Epidemic shows you how to build a happier family by firing yourself from the 'house manager' position and making each member of the family, from your husband to your youngest child, feel responsible for helping make family life run smoothly. Easy-to-understand and accessible for even the most overwhelmed parent, this book focuses on concrete plans and strategies to ensure Mom (or...
Author
Publisher
Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A call to action for today's working moms seeks to reverse negative stereotypes about how female employees with families are weak, emotional or distracted, counseling women to rethink their identities after giving birth while arguing in favor of fairer wages, equal opportunities and more flexible maternity leave.
Author
Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
[First edition].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 audio file (7 hr., 41 min.))
Language
English
Description
You're busy trying to lead a "full" life. But does it really feel full-or are you stretched too thin? Enter Stew Friedman, Wharton professor, adviser to leaders across the globe, and passionate advocate of replacing the misguided metaphor of "work/life balance" with something more realistic and sustainable. If you're seeking "balance" you'll never achieve it, argues Friedman. The idea that "work" competes with "life" ignores the more nuanced reality...
16) Having it all-- and making it work: six steps for putting both your career and your family first
Author
Publisher
Pearson Prentice Hall
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxi, 114 pages).
Language
English
Description
Working 24x7? Delaying life until it's too late? You have the ability stop! Having it All ... and Making it Work is a fast-paced, easy-to-use book offering you a new pathway towards managing personal life and professional life--without sacrificing either one of them. This book isn't just more whining and exhortation: it delivers specific, bite-sized, no-fluff solutions for managing your life, including crucial execution steps you can take immediately....
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Lifelong
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First De Capo Press edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 338 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Packed with timelines, checklists, and tips, this guide prioritizes everything you need to know in order to get your home, health, work, and life ready for a new baby, as well as keep everything on track in the months after your child is born.
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