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dancerjodiI've finished going through a couple of self-help books over the last few days. I had read of these online and there were some good nuggets of knowledge there. Both books were easy to read some parts of and skim others, to get the general ideas the authors were trying to share. Both had ideas I've read in other places, but they were still nice and inspiring reads.
I had found http://www.amazon.com/One-Bite-Time-Projects-ebook/dp/B005MZGZ84/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317748316&sr=8-1 on a blog recently and could identify with the list-making, organizing mentality of it. There were some good ideas in here and some I've already done. She provides 52 things that if you are able to master them, will simplify your life and make your time easier. Though her methods aren't what I would always do (like using a cash envelope system for some budgeting), there are good key concepts there. She mentiones that most are ideas from her blog, they are just better organized in this compact model.
I had caught this http://www.amazon.com/Selfish-Reasons-Have-More-ebook/dp/B004OA64Q6/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1317748527&sr=1-1-spell on another blog. Though I don't want to have more kids, the whole 'parents, you are stressing yourselves out' tagline seemed to be something worth investigating at this juncture. The author describes in detail various twin and adoption studies to illustrate that no matter what parents do or don't do, how their kids end up in the end is mainly driven by nature and not nurture (mind you, he acknowledges that extremes in either the nature or nurture area have profound effects). His argument is that parents create so much work for themselves in caring for their children that may not be necessary. Creating a pleasant/righ environment for them is important as far as how they feel in the current day (and what their memories of their childhoood may be), but it won't turn them into a rocket scientist, prevent them from getting arrested, or have an impact on the income they make as adults. This book was extremely repetetive, but it had some fun quotes related to parenting in it, and was very easy to skim.
All in all I am loving having an e-reader and am finding it easier to find time to use it, compared to paper books (though I still like having an actual book with me). Tracking what I've read via folders on the Kindle is a neat way to jog my memory on what I've been pondering and learning about.
I have a few pregnancy or birth related books that I've been sitting on that I'll switch to next. I don't want to be reading all babies all the time, but I think these particular ones will make my life easier come January. I don't want to keep putting off and putting off the reading, because the fall will be quite busy.
I had found http://www.amazon.com/One-Bite-Time-Projects-ebook/dp/B005MZGZ84/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317748316&sr=8-1 on a blog recently and could identify with the list-making, organizing mentality of it. There were some good ideas in here and some I've already done. She provides 52 things that if you are able to master them, will simplify your life and make your time easier. Though her methods aren't what I would always do (like using a cash envelope system for some budgeting), there are good key concepts there. She mentiones that most are ideas from her blog, they are just better organized in this compact model.
I had caught this http://www.amazon.com/Selfish-Reasons-Have-More-ebook/dp/B004OA64Q6/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1317748527&sr=1-1-spell on another blog. Though I don't want to have more kids, the whole 'parents, you are stressing yourselves out' tagline seemed to be something worth investigating at this juncture. The author describes in detail various twin and adoption studies to illustrate that no matter what parents do or don't do, how their kids end up in the end is mainly driven by nature and not nurture (mind you, he acknowledges that extremes in either the nature or nurture area have profound effects). His argument is that parents create so much work for themselves in caring for their children that may not be necessary. Creating a pleasant/righ environment for them is important as far as how they feel in the current day (and what their memories of their childhoood may be), but it won't turn them into a rocket scientist, prevent them from getting arrested, or have an impact on the income they make as adults. This book was extremely repetetive, but it had some fun quotes related to parenting in it, and was very easy to skim.
All in all I am loving having an e-reader and am finding it easier to find time to use it, compared to paper books (though I still like having an actual book with me). Tracking what I've read via folders on the Kindle is a neat way to jog my memory on what I've been pondering and learning about.
I have a few pregnancy or birth related books that I've been sitting on that I'll switch to next. I don't want to be reading all babies all the time, but I think these particular ones will make my life easier come January. I don't want to keep putting off and putting off the reading, because the fall will be quite busy.
