FACING EVERY MOM'S FEARS
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1: THE HIGH-WIRE WALK OF PARENTING
High
Above the Center Ring
Challenge
1: We Find Fears We Never Knew We Had
If
Only Chocolate Were Courage
Challenge
2: We Fear We Lack Courage
Fear--The
Gift Nobody Wants
Challenge
3: We Fear When We Lose Perspective
The
Overactive Mommy Harm Alarm
The
Amazing Fears of Daring Me?
SECTION
2: THE PLATFORM
How
Did We Get Here?
Challenge
1: We Fear the Unknown
Why
You Probably Won't Ever Drop Your Newborn
Challenge
2: Emotional Baggage Breeds Our Fears
Why
Oreos Are Not Deadly
Challenge
3: We Fear What We're Taught To Fear
Why
Panic Buttons Abound
Challenge
4: Our Personalities Bring Fears
Why
Pink Ketchup Isn't a Risk for Everyone
Hanging
Out on the Platform
SECTION
3: THE WIRE
How
Do We Get There From Here?
Challenge
1: Fear of Letting our Children Take Risks
Mandy
and the No Good Very Bad Well Maybe Okay Sleepover
Challenge
2: We Fear When It Feels Like We're Trapped
Sometimes
the Only Way Over the Bridge is Over the Bridge
Challenge
3: We Fear When We Think We'll Fail
Have
You Considered That You May Not Actually Fall On Your Face If You
Try?
Trustworthy
Cable Is No Accident
SECTION
4: THE ALTITUDE
We're
Too High Up...Aren't We?
Challenge
1: Fear of Our Children Coming to Harm
The
Ferocious Child-eating Monkey Bars of Death
Challenge
2: We Fear It's Out of Our Control
Why
the Blue Power Ranger May Have One Up on the Rest of Us
Challenge
3: Fear We Can't Cope
You've
Been There, You've Done That---Remember?
High
Up Is A Long Way to Fall
SECTION
5: THE BALANCE POLE
It's
All Hanging in the Balance
Challenge
1: We Fear Far Beyond the Facts
Jumping
to Inconclusions
Challenge
2: We Fear Little Problems into Big Ones
It's
Easy to Supersize Your Fears in the Incredible Shrinking Mommy
World
Challenge
3: We Fear When We Can Only See Darkness
The
World's Most Welcome Box of Snacks
Balance
is Far from Easy
SECTION
6: TAKING STEPS
How
Do We Keep Moving Forward on This Journey?
Challenge
1: We Can Be Frozen with Fear--And Still Thaw
Even
Cold Feet Can Start a Journey with a Single Step
Challenge
2: We Weaken Fear with Preparation
Life
Skills at the Shopping Mall? You Betcha.
Challenge
3: We Can Fake Out Our Fear
The
Magical Fear--Fighting Pajamas and Other Unlikely Tools
The
Nudge Factor
SECTION
7: THE STUMBLE
What
Happens When We Fall?
Challenge
1: We Fear Our Children Will Hate Us For Our Mistakes
Mom's
Gargantuan Blow Up Over Beating Traffic for Fun
Challenge
2: We Fear Our Failures Will Scar Our Children
Surviving
the Unrecoverable and Living to Tell the Tale
Challenge
3: Fear Is No Place to Go Alone
Sometimes
the Power of Two is Power Enough
Parenting
Isn't Perfect
SECTION
8: THE AUDIENCE
Who's
Watching? Why Does It Matter?
Challenge
1: MOM Is the Biggest Feat Factor of All
How
To Make the Most of Your Next Car Crash
Challenge
2: Good Fears Can Go Bad
Why
Not to Join the Mothers' High Anxiety Society
Challenge
3: Some Fears Can Keep Us From Good Things
Give
the Gift of Getting Over It
The
Show Must Go On
SECTION
9:THE VIEW
Look
Down. No, Don't Look Down. No, Look Down. No...
Challenge
1: We Fear We'll Make a Bad Choice
The
Major Moral Sneaky Toy Incident
Challenge
2: Fear Blinds Us to the Bigger Picture
Why
Parenthood is the Only Place "I Hate You!" is a
Compliment
Challenge
3: Fear Can Distort our View, Our View Can Distort our Fear
Looking
at the World Through Hormone-colored Glasses
"Hey,
I Can See My Child From Up Here!"
SECTION
10: THE FINALE
What's
Worth All This Risk?
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BECOMING A CHIEF HOME OFFICER
Allie
Pleiter knows first hand the culture shock, surprises, joys and
uncertainties of leaving the workplace to stay at home and raise children.
With disarming wit and a refreshing personal transparency, Pleiter tackles
both the "whys" and "hows" of this transition that
strike at the very core of a woman’s concept of self, of accomplishment,
of worth.
"Allie
Pleiter wants moms to know that
switching from a career outside the home to staying home with the kids
doesn't have to be a culture shock. Pleiter made the change from being a
fundraising executive to becoming a stay-at-home mother of two. She learned
that this change was a crucial to her personal and spiritual development as
it was to her children's. Admitting that she was the world's most unlikely
stay at home mother, Pleiter says that "once I started thinking about
my job in 'business terms' with a loaded benefits package, I became a
growing, enjoying-not-every-moment-but-awfully-close kind of mom."
"In a style of writing that grabs readers, the author packs this book
with advice, wit, and wisdom. Her advice is practical, dealing with the nuts
and bolts of mothering at home; her wit delightfully authentic; and her
wisdom speaks to the heart of a mom. "Motherhood is much more
about being than about doing," Pleiter writes. "Whatever you bring
to this job is enough. And it is enough because God does
the rest."
--Janis Meredith
(Christian
Home & School)
Becoming
a Chief Home Officer constructs a fresh new
"benefits package" for the profession of motherhood and offers a
wide array of practical advice from "labor relations" in averting
strikes and tantrums, to new perspectives in seeking "raises, praises,
and promotions."
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"Whether
you're desiring to learn how to apply your business skills to the
business of parenting, or wondering why and how fancy underwear can
help your mothering, Allie Pleiter draws you the perfect word
pictures."
--Charlene Baumbich
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Three
distinct audiences will find help and hope in these pages: the working
woman considering this transition, the newly-at-home mom adjusting to
culture shock, and the "approaching burnout,"
been-home-awhile mom struggling with frustration or dissatisfaction.
Pleiter’s witty admission of mistakes and mishaps evokes knowing
grins and empathetic laughter to punctuate her wonderfully practical
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Consider
Yourself Promoted
• Management Training: Downshifting in Culture Shock
• CHO Employee Benefit #1: A Paycheck
(Excerpt)
• CHO Employee Benefit #2: Time Off
• CHO Employee Benefit #3: Career Clothes
• CHO Employee Benefit #4: Raises, Praises, and
Promotions
• CHO Employee Benefit #5: Training and Development
(Excerpt)
• CHO Employee Benefit #6: Colleagues and Co-Workers
• CHO Employee Benefit #7: Sick Days
• Managing Your Staff: Oh, Those Tiny Employees
(Excerpt)
• Advanced Labor Relations: Averting Strikes, Tantrums,
and
Other Disasters
• Downsizing Even in the Best of Families
• The Job Description: The High Holy Ordinary
• LEADER'S GUIDE |
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Becoming
a Chief Home Officer,
part of the Hearts
At Home Work-shop Series, is ideal for personal use, mentoring
relationships and group study.
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