Welcome new readers! Last day of our free digital download offer.
Welcome, new readers to MojoMom.com! I’ve had an unbelievably cool week, sharing the digital download of Courageous Parents, Confident Kids with more than 30,000 readers all over the world.
We’ve also had more than 1000 people get the book shared with them by a friend after initially receiving the offer from me. It’s exciting to see that kind of response in two days! Thanks for spreading the word!
The free digital download ends tonight, officially at midnight, but I’ll let it go a few hours past East Coast midnight to give our friends on the West Coast and Hawaii a fair chance to get their download. Please make sure to download the file and save it to your hard drive, because after tonight, the free download will no longer be available.
I hope you’ll find Courageous Parents, Confident Kids to be a truly practical resource packed with ideas you can start using in your own life right away. If one chapter in particular speaks to you, please leave us a comment!
Thanks to my team of collaborators who worked on the book, from the expert writers, to my copyeditors and book designers. We formed a “publishing flash mob” who came together for an intense time on this project. It’s been an honor to work with each member of this talented team!
Digital download launch day is here! How our new book is like a box of chocolates.
Now through April 21 you can get a free digital download of Amy Tiemann’s brand-new book, “Courageous Parents, Confident Kids–Letting Go So You Both Can Grow.” Sign up now on MojoMom.com and we’ll instantly email you the instructions and a link to access the download. After April 21, the e-book will be available from the Mojo Store for $15.95. The paperback edition is for sale now on Amazon.com.
After months of hard work, our book launch day is finally here! We are already poised to reach at least 30,000 people with our free e-book launch. Last night I did the math and realized we are offering nearly a half million dollars worth of digital downloads for free! Am I are inspired or crazy? Only time will tell. But that’s how much I believe in this work. Thanks to digital publishing and the collaboration among all 14 experts who contributed to the new book, we can afford to launch by getting the digital download of the new book into as many people’s hands as we possibly can.
I keep thinking of our book as a box of chocolates. We’ve put together twelve delectable chapters, and I really believe that for any parent, there is at least one chapter in the book that will really speak to you, and possibly even change your life. But since we all have different families, challenges, and communities, I can’t predict which chapter will speak to each reader. That’s part of the fun then, sharing information that will resonate with you in a way that is specific to your own parenting journey. When I invited people to become book contributors, I thought really carefully about the information and encouragement that parents need, but do not always receive.
Maybe you are feeling a bit lost in the early years of motherhood, and you want to figure out how to take care of yourself and create a big-picture view of your own development. We’ve got that covered.
Or you are wondering how all those parenting experts got their expertise, and want to know how you can develop the confidence and knowledge to serve as your own expert. We have four contributors who explore these issues in depth, helping you parent with more courage and less worry as your kids get more independent.
Then we have two chapters of essential information about real-world safety and internet safety. We delve into the details of safety rules and how to guide your kids through the process of exploring the world (online and real world!) safely. I am really proud to be providing this information from two world-class experts, because this represents knowledge that all parents need, but most just don’t have.
Then, finally, we explore the important issue of finding your voice and raising it for the community. I like to draw a line that runs from self-care to leadership, and the final chapters come full circle from our individual exploration that opens the book.
I hope you’ll agree that this is a yummy box full of variety, and whether you want salt-crusted bittersweet, or strawberry-filled milk chocolate, there is something in here for you. Take a bite, and after you do, I’d love to hear your comments about which chapter speaks to you!
Courageous Parents, Confident Kids reviews are starting to come in!
Our Courageous Parents, Confident Kids–Letting Go So You Both Can Grow book release including our free digital download offer is only nine days away! So as you can imagine, I am getting really excited to share this new book with you. It has been an intense time bringing together this new parenting resource that draws on the knowledge of 14 experts. This has already been a very rewarding project, and that’s even before we get to release it into the wide world. This week the book’s contributors have seen the finished paperback for the first time and their response has been tremendous. We have pulled together into a powerful team!
But don’t just take our word for it. Read early reaction to Courageous Parents, Confident Kids:
“Wondering why kids used to play and roam outside, but things are so different today? This book brims with courage for today’s parents, and ways to pass that power onto the next generation. Read on!” — Lenore Skenazy, Founder of FreeRangeKids.com and author of Free-Range Kids: How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts with Worry)
“Tiemann’s ‘letting go so you both can grow’ is the shift parents need to nurture themselves and their families with absolute confidence and joy.”
—Michele Borba, Ed.D., Educational consultant, TODAY show resident expert and author of The Big Book of Parenting Solutions: 101 Answers to Your Everyday Challenges and Wildest Worries
We also value and appreciate reviews from across the blogosphere, and Emily Geizer of the Child Perspective, Real Parenting Solutions blog just wrote a rave review of Courageous Parents, Confident Kids. I love Emily’s opening lines, in which she says, “I’ve been enjoying a great read this past week. You know how some books (some messages, really) come at just the right time? I’ve felt nourished by this book like water nourishes my thirsty body.”
Emily agrees that we’ve met one of our goals, which was to write and publish at a fast pace to create a timely book that will get practical parenting strategies into your hands as quickly as possible. Most books come out many months to a couple of years after the manuscript has been finished. Now we are accustomed to getting our information much more quickly. In this age of Twitter and CNN.com, by the time I pick up my morning newspaper, I have already read at least half of the information online the day before! So for our book we tried to combine the best that a book can offer–deep expertise and professional editorial and production quality–with lightning-fast publishing. The book’s content is current as of March 2010, which is really unusual in the world of book publication!
The paperback edition of Courageous Parents, Confident Kids is available on Amazon.com and our official publication kickoff is Monday, April 19th, when we’re offering a free digital download of the new book to anyone who signs up on MojoMom.com before April 19th. We recommend that you sign up now while the offer is fresh on your mind! The digital download is a PDF file that can be read on any ordinary computer, and can be printed out if you wish. If you already receive my MojoMom.com updates, you do not have to sign up again–you are all set to receive the digital download.
Finally, a quick note to fellow bloggers, my digital download special offer is a $15.95 value and we’d love to have you share it with your readers. Get instant karma points with your readers for just a minute of action! Here are sample Tweets or Facebook updates you may use:
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We also have a few spots left in our blog tour outreach. If you are a blogger who is interested in receiving an e-galley of Courageous Parents, Confident Kids, and you can turn around a review by the end of April (and make a brief blog mention of our e-book offer before April 18th), please send an email to: info (at) mojomom.com with a link to your blog and short description of your work, and if it’s a good match we’ll send you more information along with an e-galley right away.
Announcing our Courageous Parents, Confident Kids book cover and contents
I’ve been “in the hive” all winter working on editing the new book, Courageous Parents, Confident Kids — Letting Go So You Both Can Grow. We reached a major milestone today with the creation of our book cover!
My thanks go out to Dunn + Associates Design and illustrator Jane Mjolsness for their stunning work! In the book creation process, things always begin to feel “real” when the cover is done.
The new book will be released in paperback in April, and best of all, you register to get a free digital download of the complete book by signing up on MojoMom.com
I am very excited to share this innovative parenting resource with you, created in collaboration with the following amazing experts who contributed chapters.
Here is a preview of Courageous Parents, Confident Kids — Letting Go So You Both Can Grow
Introduction by the Editor, Amy Tiemann, Ph.D., author of Mojo Mom: Nurturing Your Self While Raising a Family.
Part 1: The Courage to Invest in Your Own Development
The Transformative Power of Self-care by Renee Peterson Trudeau, life coach and author of The Mother’s Guide to Self-Renewal.
Tools for Career Reinvention by Kella Hatcher and Maryanne Perrin, founders of Balancing Professionals.
Part 2: Developing Your Own Courageous Parenting Style
The Courage to Let Our Kids Solve Their Own Problems by Maya Frost, international lifestyle design expert and author of The New Global Student.
The Courage to Become Your Own Parenting “Expert” by Melissa Stanton, author of The Stay-at-Home Survival Guide. Visit Melissa at www.RealLifeSupportForMoms.com
The Power of Personal Significance for Kids of All Ages by Amy McCready, parent educator and founder of Positive Parenting Solutions.
I’m Worried I Worry Too Much, But How Do I Stop? by Jamie Woolf, leadership expert and author of Mom-In Chief.
Part 3: Real-world Safety Skills for All
Kidpower: Skills for Safety, Skills for Independence by Irene van der Zande, co-founder and Executive Director of Kidpower, Teenpower, Fullpower International.
How to Say Yes to Your Kids’ Online Activities by Linda Criddle, internet safety expert and creator of iLookBothWays.com
Part 4: Finding Your Voice and Raising It for the Community
Becoming a Political Parent: PunditMom on Mothers Raising Their Voices Online by Joanne Bamberger, journalist and PunditMom blogger.
Building a Family-friendly America: Challenge and Progress Through the Eyes of MomsRising.org by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, co-founder and Executive Director of MomsRising.org
It Takes a Motherhood by Cooper Munroe and Emily McKhann, co-creators of the award-winning online community, TheMotherhood.com
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Our goal with Courageous Parents, Confident Kids is to share core concepts and skills you can build upon to become a courageous parent. When you do so, you can experience tremendous growth throughout your whole family, kids and parents included.
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