For sure there always be unexpected question arise for you and the best you can do is to keep searching for the right answer. Many sources you can think about asking your friend, surfing Internet, or talking with experts. In fact, there is a simple source that you might forget it, reading a book. You can get some interesting book, and when you are waiting for your kids, free noontime, you can spend only a few minutes with it to find out some new ideas about mother tips. At Sittercity, we collected a list of good books that we prefer to offer especially for working parents. These books have interesting advices related with each different stage of life, whether it is your first time of being a mother, or it is five years with four kind of working mom.
1. The Working Parents Hand Book
By June Sale, Ellen Melinkoff, Kit Kollenberg
The authors do not only giving a detail about how to get everything under control when you become a working parents, also all advices are proposed in the sequence, started from the pregnancy period until the child grow up. It include every answer you might normally looking for, such as how to take care yourself when you got pregnant, how to feed kids when they grow up, as well as the several tips for balance a family and work issues.
2. Going Back to Work : A Survival Guide for Comeback Moms
By Mary W. Quigley and Loretta E. Kaufman
When you questioning yourself, are you ready to go back for working life? How you can make it all fine for your kids and your career? Is it the best way out to work at home? Am I gonna get paid as the same? Is it worth for going out for work or should I stay with my kids? you can find the answer from this book. The answer will be practical and useful for your real life situation, which you will find out it not that bad for this transition.
3. This Is How We Do It : The Working Mother's Manifesto
By Carol Evans
The author herself is the CEO and President of working mother magazine wrote this book based on her real research that came from interviewing of 500 working mothers. These ladies reveal their own experience and advice about how they can have it all with a well-balance life. Plus, the author also brought up the advices gathering from over 3 million readers of magazine for the past 25 years.
4. Survival Tips for Working Moms : 297 Real Tips from Real Moms
By Linda Godman Pillsbury
The face is after you have to spend all day with dressing up kids, cleaning a messy house, cooking a dinner, so it may be hard to find peaceful time for reading a book. This author, therefore, wrote all the good tips especially for working moms and making it easy for you to find few minutes to check it out and get some new experience that will work for your life.
5. The Working Mother's Guide to Life : Strategies, Secrets, and Solutions
By Linda Mason
Linda is one of the mothers that have a part in developing the Bright Horizons Family Solutions and also the primary provider of nation on-site childcare for business. From her personal experience that is a good reference for all advices she wrote in the book, you should not miss it. Additionally she developed a program that can be applied to real life easily, which quite suit for mother who get paid pretty well.
6. Briefcase Moms : 10 Preven Practices to Balance Working Mothers Lives
By Lisa Martin
We can say that Briefcase mom is kind of books rarely found as they not focus only on how working lady can get success in being a mom and keep doing her job, this book in turn also concern on moms themselves and what is exactly they needs. The author used her life coaching expertise to conclude tactic of well-balanced life.
7. The Mom Economy : The Mother's Guide to Getting Family-Friendly Work
By Elizabeth Berger and Elizabeth Wilcox
This book will giving a support for moms who decide to get back to work after she got a new role of being a first time mom. Baby and family became the top of the list and moms need to know what she need to do and how to boost their confidence and lower their to move on for career future.
8. The Third Shift : Managing Hard Choices in Our Careers, Homes, and Lives as Women
By Michele Bolton
First shift is work, second shift is home and life, and the third shift is about guilt and anxiety, which the details of each shift also mention separately. The new title bring up new responsibility, to do it all is kind of tough. Authors reveal the mistakes most moms did, then show the possible way out to make it all fine.
9. Business Dad : How good Businessmen Can Make Great Fathers (and Vice Versa)
By Julie Hirschfeld and Tom Hirschfeld
Dad also need help. Working dad also stand in the middle of nowhere, waiting for some advice. Here the authors attempt to hit the issues about how dads can get start with raising their child together, how to work with mom to get everything done. Beside, dads do not be affraid to get confuse, it used simply language whoever you are the engineers, lawyers or doctors are easy to get understand the messages.
10. FlexTime : A Working Mother's Guide to Balancing Career and Family
By Jacqueline Foley and Sally Armstrong
This book focus on the trade-off you made while taking a role of working parents and have to decide whether career or family. The related case studies are based on her personal life, together with the research conducted with over a hundred working mothers. Flextime will giving the answer about questions like how much you need to get paid? How much time you need to spend with work? Do you need to develop a business plan?
Reference from : sittercity.com
1. The Working Parents Hand Book
By June Sale, Ellen Melinkoff, Kit Kollenberg
The authors do not only giving a detail about how to get everything under control when you become a working parents, also all advices are proposed in the sequence, started from the pregnancy period until the child grow up. It include every answer you might normally looking for, such as how to take care yourself when you got pregnant, how to feed kids when they grow up, as well as the several tips for balance a family and work issues.
2. Going Back to Work : A Survival Guide for Comeback Moms
By Mary W. Quigley and Loretta E. Kaufman
When you questioning yourself, are you ready to go back for working life? How you can make it all fine for your kids and your career? Is it the best way out to work at home? Am I gonna get paid as the same? Is it worth for going out for work or should I stay with my kids? you can find the answer from this book. The answer will be practical and useful for your real life situation, which you will find out it not that bad for this transition.
3. This Is How We Do It : The Working Mother's Manifesto
By Carol Evans
The author herself is the CEO and President of working mother magazine wrote this book based on her real research that came from interviewing of 500 working mothers. These ladies reveal their own experience and advice about how they can have it all with a well-balance life. Plus, the author also brought up the advices gathering from over 3 million readers of magazine for the past 25 years.
4. Survival Tips for Working Moms : 297 Real Tips from Real Moms
By Linda Godman Pillsbury
The face is after you have to spend all day with dressing up kids, cleaning a messy house, cooking a dinner, so it may be hard to find peaceful time for reading a book. This author, therefore, wrote all the good tips especially for working moms and making it easy for you to find few minutes to check it out and get some new experience that will work for your life.
5. The Working Mother's Guide to Life : Strategies, Secrets, and Solutions
By Linda Mason
Linda is one of the mothers that have a part in developing the Bright Horizons Family Solutions and also the primary provider of nation on-site childcare for business. From her personal experience that is a good reference for all advices she wrote in the book, you should not miss it. Additionally she developed a program that can be applied to real life easily, which quite suit for mother who get paid pretty well.
6. Briefcase Moms : 10 Preven Practices to Balance Working Mothers Lives
By Lisa Martin
We can say that Briefcase mom is kind of books rarely found as they not focus only on how working lady can get success in being a mom and keep doing her job, this book in turn also concern on moms themselves and what is exactly they needs. The author used her life coaching expertise to conclude tactic of well-balanced life.
7. The Mom Economy : The Mother's Guide to Getting Family-Friendly Work
By Elizabeth Berger and Elizabeth Wilcox
This book will giving a support for moms who decide to get back to work after she got a new role of being a first time mom. Baby and family became the top of the list and moms need to know what she need to do and how to boost their confidence and lower their to move on for career future.
8. The Third Shift : Managing Hard Choices in Our Careers, Homes, and Lives as Women
By Michele Bolton
First shift is work, second shift is home and life, and the third shift is about guilt and anxiety, which the details of each shift also mention separately. The new title bring up new responsibility, to do it all is kind of tough. Authors reveal the mistakes most moms did, then show the possible way out to make it all fine.
9. Business Dad : How good Businessmen Can Make Great Fathers (and Vice Versa)
By Julie Hirschfeld and Tom Hirschfeld
Dad also need help. Working dad also stand in the middle of nowhere, waiting for some advice. Here the authors attempt to hit the issues about how dads can get start with raising their child together, how to work with mom to get everything done. Beside, dads do not be affraid to get confuse, it used simply language whoever you are the engineers, lawyers or doctors are easy to get understand the messages.
10. FlexTime : A Working Mother's Guide to Balancing Career and Family
By Jacqueline Foley and Sally Armstrong
This book focus on the trade-off you made while taking a role of working parents and have to decide whether career or family. The related case studies are based on her personal life, together with the research conducted with over a hundred working mothers. Flextime will giving the answer about questions like how much you need to get paid? How much time you need to spend with work? Do you need to develop a business plan?
Reference from : sittercity.com
