Most of us spend several years working before becoming parents, and the majority of us continue to work once we have children. At work, we learn all sorts of valuable skills - managing, selling, negotiating and so on - which we can apply in any company we work for. But when we become parents, all those hard-learned skills are useless. Or are they? KIDS & Co explains how your business skills don't have to go out of the window when you walk in through the front door. You may sometimes feel that the kids get the better of you every time, but here is one weapon you have that they don't: all those business skills you are familiar with and they know nothing about. Closing the sale, win/win negotiating, motivational skills, and all the rest of them. All you need to do is learn how to apply them to your children as well as to your customers and your staff. Obviously there is no perfect way to handle our kids so that we never hear a single whinge or tantrum (more's the pity) but there are certainly techniques which make life a whole lot easier. What's more, as we know from our business experience, these techniques work on grown-ups. So they should be effective with children right through to adulthood even when, like customers and staff, they have got wise to the techniques and know what you're up to. KIDS & Co covers a serious subject - the business of parenting - with a light-hearted touch.
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"It’s all in here, Kids & Co, very interesting…" -- Phillip Scofield, THIS MORNING, Wed 2nd April
"Kids & Co cleverly confirms that simple but effective interpersonal skills are valuable, be it in business, families or any other field." -- T2 The Times Thurs 3rd April
"The latest bright idea on childcare……she writes amusingly but her book is no joke….The result was brilliant…." -- The OBSERVER March
"The techniques grown-ups use every day to negotiate, motivate and manage their way through the day work like a dream on children." -- SHE Magazine April Edition
"…for our hardcore businesswoman this book might become her bible. There is a lot of sensible advice on how to deal with everyday difficulties." -- The TIMES Magazine 22 March
"Kids & Co cleverly confirms that simple but effective interpersonal skills are valuable, be it in business, families or any other field." -- T2 The Times Thurs 3rd April
"The latest bright idea on childcare……she writes amusingly but her book is no joke….The result was brilliant…." -- The OBSERVER March
"The techniques grown-ups use every day to negotiate, motivate and manage their way through the day work like a dream on children." -- SHE Magazine April Edition
"…for our hardcore businesswoman this book might become her bible. There is a lot of sensible advice on how to deal with everyday difficulties." -- The TIMES Magazine 22 March
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White Ladder Press is a new company, publishing books with a broad appeal and a quirky angle. Their first title, Kids & Co, published in March 2003 is an example: there are plenty of parenting titles around, but this is the only one which links bringing up children with sales and management.
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At first I thought this was a difficult idea for raising kids - you'd have to be very organised, I thought - butinstead I've found it easy and simple; very practical indeed. Since buying this book I've found a lot of the stress of parenting has flown out of the window.I am very grateful to Ros Jay indeed for writing this amazing book.
Being a parent isn't easy but by using the techniques described in this book I've found I have a lot more energy, am kinder to my two children and generally a lot less hassled. Kids & Co has helped me enormously. It is well written, easy to follow and understand, innovative and worthwhile indeed.
Being a parent isn't easy but by using the techniques described in this book I've found I have a lot more energy, am kinder to my two children and generally a lot less hassled. Kids & Co has helped me enormously. It is well written, easy to follow and understand, innovative and worthwhile indeed.
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Business strategies applied to child-raising? Sounds dreadful, kooky and modish, you may say. Definitely not! Ros Jay has penned an invaluable and witty guide. She writes with humour, clarity and plain common-sense. Ros Jay manages to get just the right balance between taking the subject and the solution seriously, but at the same time injecting it with great dollops of humour. An irritatingly brilliant idea for a book - why didn't I think of it first?!
Thoroughly recommended for anyone about to start a family or with one already. 10 out of 10.
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