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Survival strategies, humor, and real talk about the daily lives of home-based moms. Don't stay home without it!

Many women make the decision to stay home without really knowing how their lives will change. In Tales From the Homefront readers will find survival tactics, work-at-home strategies, and humor from home-based moms, plus exclusive interviews with such prominent parenting gurus as Dr. Penelope Leach, Anna Quindlen, David Elkind and Arlene Cardozo.

The tales focus on the change in identity most mothers experience, changing relationships, finding time for yourself, mothering through the year, working at home or re-entering the paid workforce.

This book will help you make informed and insightful decisions about how you want to spend your parenting years--and keep you entertained while doing it.

What reviewers are saying . . . .

"Wonderful reading for both new and seasoned moms." -- The Parent Paper

"I found myself laughing hysterically and then crying in sympathy as the writer of each tale revealed her heart in this book. Any at-home mom--or anyone thinking of making a career change to at-home mom--need to read this book." --Domestique

Excerpts from Tales from the Homefront . . . .

On changing identity:
Living in a society that mistakes images for reality, it was easy to be defined by what I did for a living. What I did was who I was. Now I'd lost my title, which I'd confused with a purpose, and I felt uncomfortable in the silence that engulfed the house after my husband left for work each morning. --Ellen Reagan, "Finding It All"

Adventures in child-raising:
Martin Mull once remarked that having kids was like having a bowling alley installed in your head. Well, the lanes have been open in my cranium for five years now, and there are days when I fantasize about quiet the way I used to fantasize about Mel Gibson. -- Eileen Millard, "Far From the Maddening Loud"

Living on one income:
During one turbulent year that included the birth of our second child, a move to another state, and the purchase of a house . . . our savings were shot. I mean, shot. Standing between our household and disaster were roughly $150 thin American dollars. -- Julie Beret Moberly, "Our Rainy Day"

Networking:
The only living grown-up left in the neighborhood. The last woman in the country who stays at home. Cut off, adrift, isolated, alone. This is how it can feel on the worst days at home with the kids. What we at-home parents sometimes need to remind ourselves is that we do not have to feel detached from adult ocmpanionship. Some of us find help in FEMALE chapters, while others create more informal linkings of neighborhood kindred spirits. -- Chris Fletcher, "Random Acts of Kindness"

Tales From the Homefront is published in conjunction with Mothers & More (formerly known as FEMALE), the national non-profit association for women who have altered their career paths to care for their children at home. To learn more about Mothers & More, please visit their website at http://www.mothersandmore.org.

Exclusive interviews with
Anna Quindlen,
Penelope Leach,
Arlene Cardozo, and
David Elkind

It's all here. The best advice and support from those who have found a way to make staying home with their kids work (most of the time!).

From making it through the rough days--and nights--to celebrating the good times and magic moments with your kids.

Poignant personal essays, lots of humor, and survival tactics on everything from adventures in child-raising to setting up a home-based business.

206 pages
$12.95 paperback

published by
Spencer & Waters
ISBN 0-967-03591-0

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