Neat Mom, Messie Kids: A Survival Guide
A Survival Guide for Neat (and Not-So-Neat!) MomsWhat 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, itís not maid service. Something even better! You may be naturally neat and wonder why your kids didnít inherit this tendency, or you may be not-so-neat and wonder how you can teach your kids what you donít 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-readyówith 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.Sandra Felton is founder and president of Messies Anonymous, a group established to help women organize themselves and their households. She is a frequent guest on national radio and television shows and is the best-selling author of The Messies Manual and Messie No More.