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Stacy M. DeBroff is CEO and Founder of Mom Central Consulting
and author of The Mom Book, The Mom Book Goes to School, Sign Me Up and co-author of Mom Central: The Ultimate Family Organizer.
Prior to becoming a parenting author, she founded the Office of Public Interest Advising at Harvard Law School and directed it from 1990 to 1998. She has been nationally
recognized for her contributions as a lawyer by such media as The American Lawyer, The National Law Journal, and National Public Radio. The mother of two, she lives in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
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What makes your book unique from other parenting advice books?
I wanted The Mom Book to cover what I, as a modern
mom, had been missing: straightforward, practical solutions tested by other moms
and offered with the authority of their seasoned experience. That everyday,
over-the-backyard-fence wisdom is difficult to come by now that families live
farther apart and women don't have the benefit of daily interaction with other
moms. Until now, no other book has filled this enormous gap.
The Mom Book is a
one-stop source of quick and savvy solutions to on-the-spot questions about
fussy eaters, tantrums, starting a new school, balancing work and family, and
the thousand and one other skills needed to thrive as a mom. After all, who
better than experienced mothers to share insider parenting advice?
Today's Moms are pressed for time and can't waste hours
wading through long stretches of text or hundreds of web site postings to find
an answer to their dilemma of the week. Too often, we stumble about hoping to
arrive at an effective way to handle a parenting-dilemma, be that getting
everyone out the door in the morning to changing a squirming child's diaper. The
Mom Book does all the hard homework for moms ...
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