If I'm Diapering a Watermelon, Then Where'd I Leave the Baby?: Help for the Highly Distractible Mom

by Carol Barnier

At last, a gloriously unregimented mom shares stories and strategies that help other highly distractible moms run a genuine, joyful, and successful home and homeschool!

This books offers lots of practical tools to keep chaos at bay, and helps moms develop their strongest qualities -- qualities that perhaps have been seen as weaknesses. Best of all, you will find new reasons to be excited about who you are, and you will discover how the qualities you possess are true gifts from God that make you a real asset to your family.

Learn how working with your personality traits instead of constantly fighting against them makes it possible for you
keep track of items that get lost at the worst possible moment
actually arrive on time or even early
access whatever information you need whenever you need it
limit the pesky interruptions that get you off task
get stuff to organize itself so you have more time to spend with your family
organize and run a delight-driven rather than ADD-driven home or homeschool

Genres: Nonfiction, Parenting

112 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2004

Reviews

[Jennifer Buczynski]

I got this book for free at a very small used curriculum sale at a playground! I loved it!! So many wonderful practical ideas that solve little problems that amount to big stress. Always losing your keys something in your abyss of a purse when you go into a store? Attach them to your purse strap with a carabeaner! Encourage your child’s writing by having him write a monthly newsletter to friends and family and pay him for it! Always forgetting what to pray for? Write your prayer requests on index cards and put them on a ring. When the prayer is answered put it in a different pile of answered prayers! These are just a few great ideas among many in this great book!

[Brandy Ferrell]

A short, practical read for a highly distractible mom who is constantly misplacing things, forgetting tasks, and roaming around wondering what-in-the-world-it-was that I was looking for in the first place.

As the title would have you believe, this book had me laughing out loud at myself as it introduced me to simple ways I can better cope with this gift of "unregimented" motherhood. In the midst of all the practical suggestions for better streamlining our home, it provided a healthy dose of scriptural inspiration while helping me to also recognize that the quirky qualities I possess are truly gifts from God. I don't have to strive to be what I am not, but I can better equip myself to increase my chances of not diapering the watermelon.

With any luck, I may even eventually find the keys I lost six weeks ago...

[Tina]

Found this as a fairly new homeschool mom at my first homeschool convention following a session on how to keep it together when I felt like everything was falling apart! It felt as if Carol had peeked into my windows or was reading my thoughts (God forbid!). What a blessing to know that, at the very least, I wasn't alone. And that maybe, just maybe, there was hope for me yet!

[Darla]

This is so me. Finally a book on order written by someone who isn't naturally orderly. Thank goodness!

[Laura]

Help for homeschool moms who struggle with focus