Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi: The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke
Reading this book explained a whole lot of things about why so many families I know are struggling financially, even though we don't spend extravagantly. Simultaneously enlightening and nauseating.
Elizabeth Warren: All Your Worth : The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan
If other personal finance books have frustrated you because they assume you have money to invest and you don't even have enough money to buy a large coffee, this is the personal finance book for you. Reading this book showed me that it's not that I waste money on stupid things--it's that our basic expenses are too high to begin with. Reading this book is the end of financial guilt and the beginning of getting out of the hole.
Adele Faber: Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
Lots of great ideas to think about and put into practice about not assigning your kids roles and how to approach fights. Also goes over some of the stuff from the How to Talk So Kids Will Listen book about making kids feel understood. Because, really, that's all anyone wants--to be understood. And kids are people, too.
Anne Lamott: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Just perfect. A beautiful, funny, sad, accurate account of what the first days, weeks, and months with a baby are like. This is exactly what your journal would be, if you could write as well as she does.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc: Random Family : Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
LeBlanc's writing and pacing makes you want to keep reading despite the tragic story. Think you have an informed opinion about welfare reform and how to strengthen families in this country? Not until you've read this book.
John Taylor Gatto: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
This is the red pill. Don't read it if you want to stay comfortable with the American school system. Gatto goes into why government-owned schools were created and the things they actually teach us.
Ellis Avery: The Smoke Week: September 11-21, 2001
If you have any curiosity about what it was like for New Yorkers during the World Trade Center attacks, this is the book to read. A brilliant, crystalline, spot-on memoir of the week or so after the attacks, this book is an ode to New Yorkers. Realistic, clean, and completely un-maudlin, it's just the story of what it was like for us. This is what should go into a time capsule to represent September 2001.
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Here are a few from my own life:
Being poor is digging through the couch for spare change at the end of the month to buy milk.
Being poor is leaving your child in an abusive situation because you absolutely have to go to work.
Being poor is making that last roll of toilet paper last because you can't buy more.
Being poor is going to bed hungry.
Being poor is having your child almost die because you can't afford a doctor's visit.
I am no longer poor. But I was that free lunch kid. And you get so razzed for it. Likewise with the church poor box clothes.
Things I have learned: when I buy stuff for charity donations I buy new, brand name stuff. Recently we had a charity drive here at work for school supplies and I made sure that the stuff I donated was the same as all the other kids' stuff. That way no one will ever know it was a donation.
Posted by: Lisa C. | September 06, 2005 at 06:22 PM
Me too. Thinking about shutting the blog down altogether.
Posted by: Menita | September 07, 2005 at 11:28 AM
Katrina has been a wake-up call for me, too. In my sheltered little suburban bubble, I don't have to think about what it's like to be truly poor. Meanwhile, God's children are quietly living and dying in deplorable poverty...and not just in some distant country, but right here in my own city. Since Katrina, I have been thinking more and more that God has given me the resources that I have so that they can be used to help others, and I need to do a lot more than I'm currently doing.
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