How-to & Home Improvement Books

I highly recommend this book! Not only for the amazing tips Elizabeth Pantley provides, but for the encouragement & affirmation she also gives!

I implemented her program only three days ago, which by the way is very flexible to...
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I had really high hopes for this book, as it is so highly rated and seems to have helped a lot of parents deal with their childrens' sleep issues. My daughter, now 6 months old, has had trouble getting to sleep almost since birth. She was waking...
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I recommend trying cry-it-out before buying this book. You just may find that you solve your baby's sleep problem without spending any money or using precious time to read this book.

I have a 6-month-old son and a couple of weeks ago...
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This is an awesome book. I would recomend that anyone that has a child or adult that has an anger problem read this book! I even got a copy for our local library!
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I was very disappointed in this book. There was never any clear discussion of what symptoms or characteristics one might use to classify their child as "explosive" other than one who throws a lot of violoent fits. But there is a big difference...
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You can get the gist of this book by skimming through it. It speaks to cooperative communication and problem solving with the child instead of the authoritarian approach that is so easy to fall into (do it because I say so.) The approach would...
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Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things offers recipies for many environment friendly cleaning products, quick self help, beauty remedies ,and even introduces ways to entertain kids budget friendly.
Some of the remedies explained are well...
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I love this book. I've made 2 of the tote bags multiple times and the yoga bag. Everything I make in this book comes out looking very cool. The instructions are well written and easy to follow. Most things don't have patterns and use measurements...
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I purchased this book to assist me with some simple sewing ideas for the home. I am a beginning sewer and was looking for unique projects for my new hobby. Most of the projects are weird items that I would not consider making for my home( for...
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This book is good for the semi-beginner - someone who knows how to work their machine & can thread a needle. It is not so much a "how to sew" but more of a how to sew these specific items...which are very cute. (FYI - IKEA fabric would be...
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This book was very simple. I got it for that very reason, I have a 2 year old who is running the show and a new baby -- I needed help quick! After reading it by skipping around to various needed chapters, I learned that it had a quick underlying...
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This book has some practical tips, but mostly it's very shallow and I don't think it addresses the real problems that come up with raising families and children.
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This is a book of parenting advice, not problem solving advice. I was looking for creative ideas for how to keep my toddler from screaming when I wash his hair, or, as another reviewer noted, how to get him to quit picking his nose. I think most...
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Based on Torah examples she show us how to get involve with our kids, and create a great relation.


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I suppose it was inevitable in an era of neo-cons and Jewish Republicans that someone would write a Jewish "spare the rod, spoil the child" book to stand alongside Babywise and James Dobson. Mogel is more nuanced than the previous generation of...
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This is one of several books that have been released of late sharing Jewish approaches to parenting, and it is not bad. There is plenty of practical information, and the author's background as a therapist is also helpful, although it isn't clear...
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Having helped raise our three sons, I was pleased to see that someone else had looked at the ovious. There isn't much in the public education system that carefully (and with respect) offers an alternative to a diety-based culture. This book does...
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Your kid asks "why?" you answer "dunno"....and then "let's find the answer together" your kid says "nah....if you dont know by now how are we going to find it together?....I am going out on my skateboard."

Moral and intellectual...
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I've purchased this book as it was required for a sewing class I've taken recently. It's a really good guide for beginners. It is full of pictures and there's a glossary at the end of the book. The only thing is, the pictures, the models are a bit...
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I really expected this book to break down the process of reading patterns, but it didnt. I still think that they look like really bad jiggsaw puzzles and I know no more than I did when I started. Oh wait, I know that I should IRON the fabric...
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I received this as a Christmas present. I have several books on sewing from the 1956-1980 and I couldn't find anything in this book that wasn't covered in those. If you have no beginner sewing books this is very handy and well done - it has lots...
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Full of trivia as well as little morsels of fact everyone wonders about. Completely worth the price, it just so happens we have all new facts and ideas!
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If you know absolutely no chemistry, have never read a cookbook, and have no powers of observation, you might like this book as a just-about-adequate introduction. But for a better-written, more interesting start on kitchen chemistry, try Arthur...
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This book is writting in a such a way