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Discovering Another Way: Raising Brighter Children while having a Meaningful Career
For more than twenty years, millions of children have played with, loved, and learned from Discovery Toys. Now the company's founder, Lane Nemeth, tells the remarkable story of how, with a few borrowed toys, she became a pioneer in the field of educational toys and built up a $100 million business. In the process, she also changed the lives of thousands of women and helped raise a generation of smarter kids who grew up in Discovery Toys families.

This book provides a refreshingly candid insider's view of how to start your own business while following your heart. Lane believes that all women have the talent to start their own part-time or full-time businesses, enabling them to earn an income while keeping their family first. Throughout this book Lane shares tips and techniques to help you start a home-based business using your unique talents and interests. The book is also a guide to enriching your children's minds and imaginations. Most of all, it's the inspiring tale of one woman's passionate dedication to bringing quality toys to children--toys that help them reach their fullest potential by kinding their innate desire to explore and grow.

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Discovering Another Way: Raising Brighter Children while having a Meaningful Career
For more than twenty years, millions of children have played with, loved, and learned from Discovery Toys. Now the company's founder, Lane Nemeth, tells the remarkable story of how, with a few borrowed toys, she became a pioneer in the field of educational toys and built up a $100 million business. In the process, she also changed the lives of thousands of women and helped raise a generation of smarter kids who grew up in Discovery Toys families.

This book provides a refreshingly candid insider's view of how to start your own business while following your heart. Lane believes that all women have the talent to start their own part-time or full-time businesses, enabling them to earn an income while keeping their family first. Throughout this book Lane shares tips and techniques to help you start a home-based business using your unique talents and interests. The book is also a guide to enriching your children's minds and imaginations. Most of all, it's the inspiring tale of one woman's passionate dedication to bringing quality toys to children--toys that help them reach their fullest potential by kinding their innate desire to explore and grow.

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Discovering Another Way: Raising Brighter Children while having a Meaningful Career

Discovering Another Way: Raising Brighter Children while having a Meaningful Career

by Lane Nemeth
Discovering Another Way: Raising Brighter Children while having a Meaningful Career

Discovering Another Way: Raising Brighter Children while having a Meaningful Career

by Lane Nemeth

Overview

For more than twenty years, millions of children have played with, loved, and learned from Discovery Toys. Now the company's founder, Lane Nemeth, tells the remarkable story of how, with a few borrowed toys, she became a pioneer in the field of educational toys and built up a $100 million business. In the process, she also changed the lives of thousands of women and helped raise a generation of smarter kids who grew up in Discovery Toys families.

This book provides a refreshingly candid insider's view of how to start your own business while following your heart. Lane believes that all women have the talent to start their own part-time or full-time businesses, enabling them to earn an income while keeping their family first. Throughout this book Lane shares tips and techniques to help you start a home-based business using your unique talents and interests. The book is also a guide to enriching your children's minds and imaginations. Most of all, it's the inspiring tale of one woman's passionate dedication to bringing quality toys to children--toys that help them reach their fullest potential by kinding their innate desire to explore and grow.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781582700106
Publisher: Simon Pulse/Beyond Words
Publication date: 01/28/2000
Pages: 269
Product dimensions: 6.04(w) x 9.01(h) x 0.76(d)

Table of Contents

Prologuexi
1.The Great Dilemma1
2.Learning Moments6
3.Decisions, Decisions12
4.To Work or Not to Work16
5.What do You Mean, I Can't Buy These Toys?22
6.Guidelines for Brain-Building Play30
7.Discovery Toys is Born38
8.Future Vision42
9.Market Research? What's that?46
10.The Cutting Edge of Parenting50
11.Paths Taken58
12.Go West, Young Woman63
13.California, here we Come67
14.Working May Cost More than You Think72
15.Childcare Options77
16.Transitions: Helping Your Child Adjust to Childcare89
17.Signs that Your Child is not Thriving in Childcare94
18.Hi, Grandma!98
19.So this is for Real?103
20."Your Husband Actually Lets You Run a Business?"107
21.For My Next Trick111
22.Out of Breath of out of My Mind?116
23.Five Ways to Enhance Your Time with Your Child123
24.The Million-Dollar Headache129
25.Hit the Road, Lane136
26.So You Want a Cooperative Child?142
27.Trouble in Nuremberg150
28.Venture Capital? What's That?156
29.The Rock and the Hard Place159
30.Women Just Like You164
31.Tips for Starting a Home-Based Business177
32.Enlisting Your Family's Support184
33.The Year of the Black Hole193
34.Life or Death200
35.Rattles to Riches206
36.Nine Really Simple Steps to Achieving Success213
37.The Circle of Life221
38.The Biggest Win229
39.The Quest239
40.How to Turn Your Child Into a Lifelong Reader244
41.New Beginnings253
Acknowledgments260
Resources261
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