The Working Parents Help Book: Practical Advice for Dealing with the Day-To-Day Challenges of Kids

Presented in problem-and-solution format and peppered with real-life anecdotes, The Working Parent's Help Book presents specific strategies to help working parents cope with ongoing issues such as child care, family leave, keeping careers on track, finding time to enjoy their families, and more.

Addressed to both mothers and fathers, this guide offers an array of tips, anecdotes, and solid advice pertaining to innumerable situations and dilemmas commonly faced by parents who work outside the home. Chapters devoted to parental leave, infancy, child care, the school and the teenage years, workplace problems, and future planning and money management are included. Extremely helpful is a topical discussion of various ways of sharing the load with one's spouse, children, and friends. A treasure trove of information and a significant contribution to the literature of contemporary child-rearing. Margaret Flanagan