Finding Your Way Home: How To Become A Successful Stay-At-Home Parent – Find Your Way Home!

What is keeping YOU from coming home to your family?

Are you a working parent looking for a way to leave the paid workforce to become a stay-at-home parent?

Or, are you a stay-at-home parent looking for a way to successfully maintain your home-based lifestyle?

Whether you are currently at home, or in the process of looking for a way to come home, this is the book for you. Finding Your Way Home offers comprehensive step-by-step strategies to help you plan and implement an exit from the workforce, and create a sustainable life at home with your family.

In this book, you will:

• Learn why a stay-at-home parent is so beneficial to children of all ages.
• Discover how having a parent at home can improve your health, marriage, family life, and yes, even your budget!
• Analyze your options for working: full-time, part-time, home-based business, free-lance, or stay-at-home parenting full-time.
• Learn how to cut household expenses.
• Create a new one-income household budget.
• Conquer fear and turn in your resignation!
• Maintain your self-esteem and overcome resistance once at home.
• Create new home-based routines and become a successful household manager.
• Create a safe haven: a relaxed, secure, and sustainable home-based lifestyle for the whole family!

Based on the author’s extensive research, interviews with dozens of parents and her highly personal account of her own struggle to find her way home, this book offers everything a parent needs to come home successfully. Finding Your Way Home will be referred to again and again as you transition to the calmer, less hurried, and family-focused lifestyle of your dreams.

About the Author

Lucynda Koesters worked as a marketing specialist for The Courier-Journal newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky for eight years before finding her way home to her family. She is now self-employed as a free-lance writer, concentrating on families, children and one-income living. She is available to speak on the subject of finding your way home, and also for private consultations. She lives in a log home in the rolling hills of southern Indiana with her husband, three children, and a toy rat terrier. She would love to hear from readers.

There are many jobs that are suitable for stay at home moms. Jobs For Stay At Home Moms (Kindle Edition) has many suggestions.

Table of Contents of Jobs For Stay At Home Moms

• Consultants Help Others Start Working in Many Businesses
• Data Entry Clerks Work at Home
• Freelance Editors Work from Home
• Freelance Writers for Web Content
• Graphic Designers Make Great Money Working at Home
• Inbound Call Centers are Ideal for the WAHM
• Magazine Copywriters are in High Demand
• Make Money as a Virtual Assistant
• Many Moms Work As Translators at Home
• Moms Can Work at Home as a Transcriptionist
• Moms in Affiliate Marketing
• Moms That Stay Home Become Forum Moderators
• Moms Working as Press Release Writers
• So Many Online Party Sales for Moms
• Teaching Tutors Needed for Different Subjects
• Text Operators Work for Various Companies
• The Best Reviewers Are Moms
• Work at Home Jobs in Accounting
• Work at Home Mom Bloggers
• Work at Home Moms Become EBay Sellers
• Work at Home Research Assistants
• Working at Home as a Website Developer
• Working From Home as an Outbound Call Center Operator

It just sort of happened as the result of a confluence of events — her husband taking an out-of-state job, her own long commute to a high-pressure New York magazine editing job, and the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

‘I woke up one day and said, `You know what? That’s it. I need to live a different life,’?’ she said.

Ms. Stanton, who now lives in Davidsonville, admits she didn’t know quite what she was getting into when she left the workforce. But she’s gained a lot of experience and is determined to pass it on to other women.

Her book, ‘The Stay-at-Home Survival Guide: Field-Tested Strategies for Staying Smart, Sane, and Connected While Caring for Your Kids,’ came out June 1. It packs plenty of advice for moms who may be feeling a bit isolated and under-appreciated in their new roles.

‘It’s so chock-full of tips (and) practical things,’ said Krista Lyons-Gould, publisher of Berkeley-based Seal Press, which put out the guide.

Ms. Stanton, 43, consulted with about 100 stay-at-home mothers and surveyed more than 60 in detail to gain a broad perspective for the book.

The guide includes chapters on everything from finances and friends to sex and strategies for keeping sane.

‘There’s a little humor and a lot of substance,’ said Ginny Meerman of Edgewater, who has four children and has been a stay-at-home mother for 18 years.

‘I’m still amazed that I did it,’ she said. ‘The book was a lot of work, but it was really good to have done it. I hope it gets attention. I think it’s a useful book.’ — Hometown Annapolis, June 19, 2008

No one ever said that staying home with kids was easy. But now, thanks to this new book by Melissa Stanton, you’ll have somewhere to turn whenever you’re feeling a little lonely, under-appreciated, or overwhelmed. Stanton, a magazine editor turned stay-at-home herself, understands all too well both the joys and the challenges that come with staying home with your children full time. For this book, she draws not only on her own experience, but also on the experiences of other moms, who she spoke to and surveyed at length. With information about dealing with everything from money and scheduling to friendships and marriage, Stanton has the advice you need for every situation and the sympathy and understanding you’ve been hoping for. No one understands a stay-at-home mom like another stay-at-home mom, which gives Stanton the insights to make this Survival Guide a valuable resource for moms everywhere. — Mom Central, June 26, 2008

The Stay-at-Home Mom Survival Guide description

Who are they?

They are the stay-at-home moms.

These are women who know in their hearts that staying home to raise their children is the right choice for the whole family. Some do it from the outset of their marriages, while others make the difficult transition from career-driven women to homemakers. Either way, it is a choice that is incredibly rich and rewarding, not to mention challenging.

Now Dr. Laura, building on principles developed during her long career as a licensed marriage and family therapist, provides a wealth of advice and support, as well as compassion and inspiration, to women as they navigate the wonders and struggles of being stay-at-home moms.

Learn how:

• to hold your head high and deal with naysayers;
• to see the benefits of being home not only for your children but also for your marriage;
• to understand the changes you see in yourself;
• to realize that the sacrifices you endure now will make for lasting bonds and a stronger family, in addition to a more cohesive community.

In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms is a special book, a profound and unique understanding of how important it is for mothers to raise their own children.

About the Author

Dr. Laura Schlessinger is a licensed marriage and family therapist, the author of ten New York Times bestsellers, and a regular columnist for NewsMax. She is the number one female talk-show host and the third-most-listened-to talk-show host in America. Her award-winning radio program is heard on more than 250 stations internationally, XM Satellite Radio, and the Armed Forces Network, and is streamed and podcast on her website and YouTube channel. She lives in Southern California with her husband.