How to Be a Happier Parent: Raising a Family, Having a Life and Loving (Almost) Every Minute - Hardcover

KJ Dell'Antonia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0735210470 ISBN 13: 9780735210479

Publisher: Avery Publishing Group, 2020

Synopsis

An encouraging guide to helping parents find more happiness in their day-to-day family life, from the former lead editor of the New York Times Motherlode blog.

In all the writing and reporting KJ Dell'Antonia has done on families over the years, one topic keeps coming up again and again: parents crave a greater sense of happiness in their daily lives. In this optimistic, solution-packed book, KJ asks: How can we change our family life so that it is full of the joy we'd always hoped for? Drawing from the latest research and interviews with families, KJ discovers that it's possible to do more by doing less, and make our family life a refuge and pleasure, rather than another stress point in a hectic day. She focuses on nine common problem spots that cause parents the most grief, explores why they are hard, and offers small, doable, sometimes surprising steps you can take to make them better. Whether it's getting everyone out the door on time in the morning or making sure chores and homework get done without another battle, How to Be a Happier Parent shows that having a family isn't just about raising great kids and churning them out at destination: success. It's about experiencing joy--real joy, the kind you look back on, look forward to, and live for--along the way.

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Review

"KJ Dell'Antonia brings her perfect balance of wisdom and practicality to bear on the ordinary-yet-maddening challenges of raising children. She knows the terrain of family life and has discovered fresh paths through the thickets Reading this book will, without doubt, leave you a more grounded, relaxed, and yes, happier parent." --
-Lisa Damour, author of Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions Into Adulthood

About the Author

KJ Dell'Antonia is a writer and a regular contributor to the New York Times, where she wrote and edited the Motherlode blog from 2011 until 2016 and was a contributing editor to the Well Family section from 2016-2017. Prior to this, she was one of Slate's XX Factor bloggers and a contributor to Slate, where she covered parenting and a broad range of subjects, from legal issues to pop culture. KJ lives in Lyme, New Hampshire, with her husband and four children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Avery Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0735210470
• ISBN 13: 9780735210479
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272