An encouraging guidebook to helping parents find even more happiness within their day-to-day family life, through the former lead editor of the brand new York Times’ Motherlode blog.

In every the writing and reporting KJ Dell’Antonia did on families over the years, one topic keeps coming up over and over: parents crave a larger sense of happiness within their daily lives. With this optimistic, solution-packed publication, KJ asks: How do we change us life such that it is full of the joy we’d always hoped for? about How to be always a Happier Parent: Raising a Family, Possessing a Existence and Caring (Almost) Every Minute Sketching from the latest study and interviews with family members, KJ discovers that it’s possible to do even more by doing less, and make us life a refuge and pleasure, rather than another stress stage in a hectic day. She focuses on nine common problem places that trigger parents one of the most grief, explores why they may be hard, and will be offering small, doable, occasionally surprising steps you can take to create them better. Whether it’s getting everyone out the entranceway on time each day or ensuring chores and research get done without another battle, How to Be considered a Happier Mother or father demonstrates having a family isn’t only about raising great children and churning them out at destination: success. It’s about going through joy–real joy, the kind you look back on, look forward to, and live for–along the way.