The Parent's Pocket Checklist: An Essential Guide to Pregnancy - Couverture souple

Johnson, Kim Arrington

 
9780989113601: The Parent's Pocket Checklist: An Essential Guide to Pregnancy

Synopsis

Checklists are efficient, and in today's busy world, parents are short on time and overloaded with information; yet filtering out the junk wastes precious time and having too many choices paralyzes us. As a former Naval Aviator, Kim relied on a "pocket checklist" to guide her through each flight. While parenting may not be as fast paced as flying in a fighter jet, it is loaded with potential pitfalls and important yet forgettable minutiae. With this guide, Kim combines witty, concise, research-based to-do lists with practical tips from hundreds of experienced moms and dads, getting straight to the point of what parents need to know about pregnancy, baby, and beyond.

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À propos de l?auteur

When Kim was pregnant for the first time, she had lots of extra time for reading and research. She had recently quit a demanding job and needed an intellectual outlet. She had spent her adult life racing from one action-packed environment to another—from the U.S. Naval Academy to flight school to fighter jets (as an F-14 RIO and F/A-18F WSO) to business school at Duke to corporate life at Goldman Sachs—to finally, and being at home all day with a baby. While she was thrilled and blessed to be a mom, she was also lonely and disheartened. Nobody told her that motherhood would be so complex. Determined not to spend nap time discouraged, she created a web site and blog sharing what she had learned about critical parenting topics, such as vaccine safety, environmental toxins, potential causes for autism, ADHD, and food allergies, anxiety and depression for new parents, and more. As she wrote, checklists naturally emerged. As a Naval Aviator, Kim relied on a "pocket checklist" to guide her through each flight. Kim's pocket checklist, or PCL, was so indispensable that it remained zipped into the pocket of her anti-gravity suit for fear that it would become detached in an emergency or dynamic flight. While parenting may not be as fast paced as flying in a fighter jet, it is loaded with potential pitfalls and important yet forgettable minutiae. Who can remember all of the steps and dos and don'ts of pregnancy and modern parenting? It was clear from blogging that parents were longing for concise, yet trusted advice—laying the foundation for The Parent's Pocket Checklist book series and fueling the passion behind Kim’s work.

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