With 5 children under the age of 11 busy Australian mum Nicole Avery thought nothing of using her 'spare time' late in the evening to start up a blog! Overwhelmed by the responses to her tips and tricks to organizing family chaos, Nicole decided to spread the word and the result is this handy toolkit for all families about making time to just be a family. <i>Planning With Kids</i> is the perfect handbook for making hectic family life easier to manage, leaving more time for fun. A far cry from other prescriptive parenting books that tell you how to be a mum or dad the focus with this book is pure and simple: implement some strategies to leave more time for parents to be parents and kids to be kids. It covers everything from the routines of daily life, to family relationships, to budgeting and finances, play time plus much more. Contains a full section on menus and cooking including recipes. This is supported online by a planning with family meal planner. Author has been blogging for 3 years and has a strong online community ready and waiting to promote the book. Divided into sections so that readers can dip - in and dip - out for information as they need it as their family expands and grows up!