Julie lays out the first-ever job description for parents. By defining the role and providing a framework for success, Julie eliminates the uncertainty and ambiguity that leads most parents to feel the job never gets done despite working at it non-stop.

Author Julie Morgenstern is known for her ability to make the overwhelming simple and actionable. Here are just some tips Julie shares in the book:

• *The Holy Grail* — Answering the previously impossible question: “exactly how much of my time do my kids need in order to feel loved and secure?”

• Introducing the catchy acronyms at the heart of her parenting job description– empowering parents to do their P.A.R.T. while also taking care of the S.E.L.F.
• Eradicating the paralysis that comes from parenting perfection through her simple tool: Max-Min-Mod.
• Immediately actionable tips for helping parents toggle between the eight different aspects of the job of parenting
• Addressing the role technology plays in stymieing parents’ best efforts to relate to their kids.

What’s In The Book?

The book is laid out in five different sections and each section has a number of chapters. The Sections and Chapters are as follow:

Part 1 Time and Attention

1. Undivided Focus: What Parents Crave
2. Loved and Listened To: What Kids Need
3. Organizing the Job: A Simple Blueprint
4. A Guide to the Quadrants

Part 2 Self-Assessing

1. Where Do You Gravitate?: Your Quadrant Scorecard
2. Four Time Management Skills You Must Master

Part 3 Raising a Human Being: Doing Your P.A.R.T.

1. Provide
2. Arrange
3. Relate
4. Teach

Part 4 Being A Human Being: Fueling Your S.E.L.F.

1. Sleep
2. Exercise
3. Love
4. Fun

Part 5 Life Happens

1. When Life Throws You Curveballs: Moving, Divorce, Illness, Job Loss

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Julie Morgenstern is an organizing & productivity consultant, New York Times best-selling author, and speaker. For over 25 years, Julie has been teaching people all around the world and at all stages of life how to overcome disorganization to achieve their goals. Her mission is to free each individual to make their unique contribution to the world—by helping them design their own systems for managing time and space that feel natural and are easy to maintain. This Inside Out approach to organizing everything gives readers, listeners, and clients the energy and knowledge they need to get (and stay) organized.

Through practical, dynamic workshops and coaching sessions, Julie and her team help organizations around the globe identify what’s holding their people back and get on the road to fulfilling their mission quickly. Past clients include American Express, Hearst, HARPO, Deloitte, Microsoft, FedEx, GlaxoSmithKline, the NBC-Newsroom, the NYC Mayor’s Office, Sony Music, State Farm Insurance and Viacom/MTV.

As a speaker, media personality and corporate spokesperson, Julie is known for her passionate, articulate style and warm sense of humor. She has written columns for O Magazine, Redbook, and Wells Fargo, helping readers solve problems by inspiring order in their lives. She has shared her expertise on countless TV and radio outlets, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, The Rachael Ray Show, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and The National Public Radio. She is quoted and featured regularly in a wide variety of publications and has been seen in The New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, Best Life, O Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Fitness Magazine and Men’s Health.

Julie is as crisp and engaging in her books as in person. She helps readers diagnose the causes of their disorganization, make mindset changes through insightful metaphors, and master simple technical skills they may be lacking. Julie is the author of the classic tomes Organizing from the Inside Out and Time Management from the Inside Out, both of which have been developed into popular specials for PBS. Julie and her teenage daughter, Jessi Morgenstern-Colon, co-authored Organizing from the Inside Out for Teens. Her workplace productivity and work-life balance tome, Never Check Email in the Morning, is now the basis of a popular training program conducted for Fortune 500 businesses and organizations worldwide. Julie’s book Shed Your Stuff, Change Your Life takes her message to a new level, showing people how to use the process of decluttering to ‘get unstuck’ in their lives. Her latest book, Time to Parent, helps parents savor time both with their kids and on their own.

Overall this is a great book to refer to when you are in need of some ideas, or encouragement. The book is not and end all to your troubles but it can help give some guidance when you might not have anywhere else to turn. 

We all need a little direction and encouragement sometimes.

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