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Title: You Can Afford to Stay Home With Your Kids: A Step-By-Step Guide for Converting Your Family from Two Incomes to One (You Can Afford to Stay Home With Your Kids) by Malia McCawley Wyckoff, Mary Snyder ISBN: 1-56414-408-9 Publisher: Career Press Pub. Date: June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (14 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: A pinch of good advice mixed with a hefty dose of sarcasim
Comment: If you can't stay home with your kids perhaps it's because of your addiction to $50 haircuts and weekly manicures. That's what these authors would lead you to believe.
Although the book did contain some practical advice, it was overshadowed by the authors' condescending tone. They seem to believe that most women are working to buy the latest color in bathroom towels. Their call to action is a whiney, "We're sacrificing life's luxuries to stay home with our children and you should to."
Although the book featured some recipes and advice on cutting your expenses, most of the information was very basic. For example, cook from scratch, buy things second hand when possible, etc.
A much better book on the subject is, "So You Want to be a Stay at Home Mom". It was much more compassionate toward working moms who are considering leaving their jobs and contained useful advice on how to handle the emotional and financial consequences of such a decision.
Rating: 5
Summary: Definately recommend buying it!
Comment: I bought this book after thinking about staying home with my 3 yr old. I read it and loved it. I wish I would of read it a long time ago. It gives you lots of information, cleaning tips, saving $ money tips and everything. I now am staying home with my son and wish I would've done it earlier. I missed out on so much. If you're a mom or dad who is wanting to stay home with your kids, you have to read this book, it will help you make that transition to being a stay at home parent.
Rating: 5
Summary: Recommended in conjunction with Miserly Moms
Comment: What I liked best about this book:
1. The chapter on contingency plans. Yes, it's obvious that it's a good idea to have a backup-plan in case the working parent gets laid off, there's a large unexpected expense, etc. Nevertheless, I found it helpful to read the authors' experiences regarding such emergencies which happened in their families and to consider the various ideas and options presented. My own contingency plan was that I worked fifteen months longer than I wanted to and progressively worked up to putting my entire paycheck in savings; by the time I quit, we had enough money set aside to pay our living expenses for an entire year, if that became necessary.
2. The chapter on stay-at-home blues. I appreciated the authors' candor in describing the pros and cons of staying home. A humorous (but true) example they give is that you won't necessarily fall in love with cleaning the bathroom and once home, you may do it more often than you did before. Most importantly, they're honest about the feeling of isolation that can creep up on a stay-at-home parent and how one can deal with it.
3. They "tell it like it is". As they say, unless one of the parents' incomes is completely disposable, it is going to be necessary to make some sacrifices somewhere. Something will have to go in order to keep the family's financial boat afloat. My family experienced this period of adjustment while saving for our emergency fund; by the time I left work, we were already used to managing on one income and it wasn't so difficult.
I address the chapters on the "cons" of staying home specifically because if most people pick up a book like this in the first place, it's probably because they already want to be home with their child(ren). What they want to know is how to achieve that goal and what to expect along the way. I found this book a terrific primer on how to get off the fast track in the smoothest possible manner.
The reason I recommended this book in conjunction with Miserly Moms by Jonni McCoy is that I feel the latter book presents a larger share of nuts-and-bolts information on how to reduce expenses. Jonni McCoy once worked as a senior buyer for Apple Computers, among other firms, and you can see this real-world experience in how she analyzes and approaches the issue of frugality.
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Title: So You Want to Be a Stay-At-Home Mom by Cheryl Gochnauer ISBN: 0830819223 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: How to Raise a Family on Less Than Two Incomes : The Complete Guide to Managing Your Money Better So You Can Spend More Time withYour Kids by Denise Topolnicki ISBN: 0767905652 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 06 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Miserly Moms: Living on One Income in a Two-Income Economy by Jonni McCoy ISBN: 0764226126 Publisher: Bethany House Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
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Title: Stay-at-Home-Parent's Survival Guide : Real-Life Advice from Moms, Dads, and Other Experts A to Z by Christina Baglivi Tinglof, Christina Baglivi Tinglov ISBN: 0809226766 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Staying Home: From Full-Time Professional to Full-Time Parent by Darcie Sanders, Martha M. Bullen ISBN: 0967035902 Publisher: Spencer & Waters Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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