The Parent's Success Guide to Organizing

The essentials of keeping your home clutter-free

Piles of laundry, junk-filled closets, out-of-control playrooms–with all that’s involved in organizing your home, what’s a busy parent to do?

The Parent’s Success Guide to Organizing tells you everything you need to know to restore harmony to your home–from the bedroom to the basement and everything in between. This convenient, portable guide helps you gather the best supplies and develop a plan of action, featuring parent-friendly solutions for:

• Setting reasonable goals (Rome wasn’t built in a day)
• Getting your primary living spaces livable again–from the entryway to the kitchen, from the family room to the garage and patio
• Restoring order in the home office, from paper clips to the PC
• Managing household information–everything from mail to master lists
• Making the most of your personal time

Plus, in every Parent’s Success Guide, you get Top Ten lists and timesaving tips!

Through her company Everything in Its Place, Eileen Roth, co-author of Organizing For Dummies, consults with clients including Fortune 500 companies, trade associations, entrepreneurs, and busy individuals and families. Her success shaping up even the organizationally impaired has landed her spots on Oprah; the Today show with Bryant Gumbel; Handy Ma’am with Bev DeJulio; and NBC, ABC, and WGN News. Eileen’s organizing fixes have been featured by the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times and on a number of radio stations, and she uses her advanced time-management skills to squeeze in workshops across the country. She recently moved from her hometown of Chicago to Phoenix, Arizona, to be closer to her college-age daughters. She is a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO), National Speakers Association (NSA), and American Society for Training and Development (ASTD).

Elizabeth Miles, co-author of Organizing For Dummies, is known to her fan s for her user-friendly approach to peak performance on many fronts, Elizabeth offers answers that pop off the page and onto your to-do-now list. She’s miles of smiles as she tells you how to tune into success, new millennium style. With a professional career that’s run the gamut from banking on Wall Street to booking rock concerts and developing gourmet recipes, Miles relies on a broad range of experience in making the good life easier for busy people. She puts her graduate degree in ethnomusicology to work with her book and CD series Tune Your Brain: Using Music to Manage Your Mind, Body, and Mood, which draws upon the latest neurological and medical research about music’s effects on the body and mind to create an applied system for listeners. As creator and host of the dialing “Braintuning Break” radio feature, she’s taken her advice to the airwaves and earned listener loyalty over three seasons on the California Classical Network. Miles’ popular approaches to achieving potential have been extensively covered in national and international media from Self to Success, PBS to the BBC, while the Tune Your Brain CD series has enjoyed long Top Ten runs on Billboard’s classical chart. Miles lectures and consults for organizations such as Kaiser Permanente, the Los Angeles Unified School District, the Young Entrepreneurs’ Organization, the Wellness Community, and many more concerned with health, education, and performance. As a previously self-professed organizational dummy, she enjoyed applying her trademark knack for making things easy to Eileen’s expertise and proven techniques to help bring Organizing For Dummies to life. A native of Madison, Wisconsin, Miles holds a master’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.A. from Dartmouth College. She lives in Los Angeles.

Heather Heath Dismore began her career as a well-traveled, highly productive restaurant manager. She left the industry to devote time to her family and her love of writing. In a publishing career spanning over adecade, her work has impacted some 400 titles. Her most recent projects include Indian Cooking For Dummies, part of the compilation Cooking Around the World All-in-One For Dummies. She holds a B.A. from DePauw University. Dismore resides in Springfield, Missouri, with her husband, who is a professional chef, and their two daughters.