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Book Reviews of Simplify Your Life With Kids : 100 Ways to make Family Life Easier and More Fun

Simplify Your Life With Kids : 100 Ways to make Family Life Easier and More Fun
Simplify Your Life With Kids 100 Ways to make Family Life Easier and More Fun
Author: Elaine St. James
ISBN-13: 9780836235951
ISBN-10: 0836235959
Publication Date: 8/1/1997
Pages: 384
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 20 ratings
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Book Type: Hardcover
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7 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

karasue10 avatar reviewed Simplify Your Life With Kids : 100 Ways to make Family Life Easier and More Fun on + 2 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
I love the tips on simplifying although I do a lot of those things already. Very quick, easy reading with some new ideas, but mostly things that we as mothers have figured out on our own. It's worth picking up and reading. I did however like the original Simplify Your Life book the best.
daiseyinthefield avatar reviewed Simplify Your Life With Kids : 100 Ways to make Family Life Easier and More Fun on
Helpful Score: 1
This is a good book for systematically simplifying life with kids. It is straight-foward and easy to read. It has lots of good suggestions, some of which are obvious--like "buy fewer toys"--but it also provides ways to implement the suggestions--like "only allow new toys on birthdays or special holidays" or "for every new toy that comes into the house, one old toy must be donated/given away." Great step-by-step approach for people who feel overwhelmed by a too hectic life with kids.
Onion avatar reviewed Simplify Your Life With Kids : 100 Ways to make Family Life Easier and More Fun on + 105 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
From back of book:

Raising happy, healthy, well-adjusted children is one of our greatest challenges. Kids require incredible amounts of our love, understanding patience, praise, nurturance, guidance, respect, and thought. And these things all take time.
If you can simplify even one or two areas of your life, it will vastly improve the quality and increase the quantity of time you have to spend with your kids. And you family life will be much easier and a lot more fun. As it should be.
reviewed Simplify Your Life With Kids : 100 Ways to make Family Life Easier and More Fun on + 20 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Really enjoyed reading through the ideas and tips. Most people will already know or be doing but there is enough to make it interesting and have some to implement.
reviewed Simplify Your Life With Kids : 100 Ways to make Family Life Easier and More Fun on + 13 more book reviews
Great book - key reminders - help with forming good parental habits
reviewed Simplify Your Life With Kids : 100 Ways to make Family Life Easier and More Fun on + 7 more book reviews
Love the realistic tips she gives.
buzzby avatar reviewed Simplify Your Life With Kids : 100 Ways to make Family Life Easier and More Fun on + 6062 more book reviews
100 pieces of advice, explained in about 2 pages each, you do the math, (well, there's 359 pages, I guess that's why I don't teach math). Anyway, pretty good practical advice, like "Learn to do one thing at a time".