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Title: The Family Manager's Everyday Survival Guide by Kathy Peel ISBN: 0-345-41985-5 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A good start for the organizationally challenged
Comment: I am organizationally challenged. I admit this. My home is an explosion of toys, cracker crumbs, laundry and paperwork. Our bills are regularly late because we can't find them or worse forget about them. I would like to say this book re-invented my life, I have to be realistic though. After almost 30 years of disorganization nothing will change over night. The author does offer some very practical simple solutions that I was able to implement with almost no effort. This was great for us. I created an organization system and rearranged a few items of furniture to find that I could use the space and things I already owned to my advantage. I try to look through the book weekly to find something new I can add to our routine to see what we can do to improve things. If you are just starting out with organization or you are to the point I was where you were ready to explode this is an excellent resource.
Rating: 5
Summary: You may be the boss, but are you the Family Manager?
Comment: It's so easy to feel like we stay-at-home moms do so little in the world. Everyone else has titles at their job: "assistant product developer", "marketing coordinator", "research and design engineer". We're simply "Mom". And often as we sit around in our jeans with banana mash stuck on them juggling a baby and figuring out when we need to leave to pick up our older ones from school, we wonder whether we're really that important.
Kathy Peel helps us in two ways: first, she encourages us that what we do truly is important. In fact, it's the most important job there is! And if we're going to do it right, it requires some organization.
The Family Manager doesn't just teach us how to organize our homes, it helps us make sure that the main priorities don't get lost in the shuffle of driving to gymnastics, to Boy Scouts, and the grocery store. She reminds us to plan family activities, to make everyone feel special, and to take time just to enjoy each other. And to keep stress to a minimum, she reminds us to do the "preventative maintenance" in all areas of our lives, so that we don't have to spend precious time putting out fires.
When I wrote To Love, Honor and Vacuum, I didn't repeat what Kathy Peel did, because she did such a good job. I focused on how to change our relationships so that we don't feel so taken for granted, but I recommended that everyone also read The Family Manager to learn how to do that housework quickly, efficiently, and to everyone's benefit.
If you're down in the duldrums and feeling like you're running off your feet, this book will help you to remember that you are important and that you can make a difference.
Rating: 3
Summary: Full of Information, Repeat of much information
Comment: First the positive:
This book is full of useful information to help you in organizing your home, your time, your life and more. There are many hints and techniques as well as a encouragement. If you are just starting down the road to organizing, this is a good book to begin with.
However, if you already have a fairly well run family and need to fine tune your organizing this is not the book to get.
Much of this can be read in any women's magazine in any given month. Many of the ideas are very simplistic (not that this is all bad).
Overall, I'd say that there are other better books out there that deal with organizing a home. I prefer Confessions of a Happily Organized Family or others by the same author.
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Title: The Family Manager Takes Charge: Getting on the Fast Track to a Happy, Organized Home by Kathy Peel ISBN: 0399529136 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Be Your Best : The Family Manager's Guide to Personal Success by Kathy Peel ISBN: 0345419847 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Family Manager : by Kathy Peel ISBN: 0849939372 Publisher: W Publishing Group Pub. Date: 24 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Confessions of a Happily Organized Family by Deniece Schofield ISBN: 1558704248 Publisher: Betterway Pubns Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Confessions of an Organized Homemaker: The Secrets of Uncluttering Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life by Deniece Schofield ISBN: 1558703616 Publisher: Betterway Pubns Pub. Date: February, 1994 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
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