Planning with kids - Nicole Avery

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

• Contains a full section on menus and cooking, includingrecipes, supported online by a planning-with-family mealplanner
• Divided into sections so that readers can dip-in and dip-outfor information as they need it as their family expands and growsup!