Neat Mom, Messie Kids: A Survival Guide

by Sandra Felton

A Survival Guide for Neat (and Not-So-Neat!) Moms What you want is a neat house, cooperative kids, and a fair distribution of work. But what you have are kids with messy bedrooms who also leave the living areas a mess and drag their feet on doing their chores. Right? Help is here! No, it's not maid service. Something even better! You may be naturally neat and wonder why your kids didn't inherit this tendency, or you may be not-so-neat and wonder how you can teach your kids what you don't know how to do yourself. Whichever is true for you, Neat Mom, Messie Kids will show you how to become the coach of a family organizing team and transform your house into the home of order and dignity you want. Helpful letters from other moms, lists of related books and web sites, chore charts, and other practical tools found in this book will guide you in keeping your house organized, neat, and visitor-ready-with less effort. And with advice from Sandra Felton, the Organizer Lady, you will discover secrets to making your family a wonderful dynamic unit in ways that flow way beyond the house.

Genres: Parenting

230 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2002

Reviews

[Christine · Rating 4 out of 5]

I approached this book skeptically.. but found it was actually helpful and not really about a clean house as much as it is about managing a house that is comfortable for you and your family. She references Dr. Dobson and Dr. Kevin Lehman multiple times throughout the book so I sense that she is coming from a Christian perspective. The big theme is that we as the mothers and managers of our homes have to put in the hard work of managing our kids so they can be team players in keeping the house running so mom isn’t burnt out all the time.

[Jenny · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book! I took pages of notes and will have to buy this book. It gave me some fantastic ideas on how to become a manager-mom. It reminded me that the focus isn't the house, it is the kids and teaching them how to function in life. To sum it up: wear myself out in training the children instead of cleaning up after everyone. And once my three younger kids get a little older, I won't have to be doing much work around here besides managing everyone. (-:

[Tressa Lancaster · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were some helpful ideas, even for a veteran. :D