Recommended Reading -- "I am not a rat, so long as I can read!"

Many books offer wonderful suggestions on how to deal with different aspects of the rat race, and here are some we think are particularly useful, thought-provoking, entertaining or illuminating. (And as with all of our resources here at RRR.com, please don't hesitate to send us your own suggestions.

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• Home-Alone America - Mary Eberstadt
• Life's Work: Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom - Lisa Belkin
• Day Care Deception: What the Child Care Establishment Isn't Telling Us - Brian Robertson
• The Last Normal Child: Essays on the Intersection of Kids, Culture, and Psychiatric Drugs (Childhood in America) - Lawrence Diller
• Lilypad List: Seven Steps to the Simple Life - Marian Van Eyk McCain
• The Book of New Family Traditions: How to Create Great Rituals for Holidays & Everydays - Meg Cox
• Living Simply with Children: A Voluntary Simplicity Guide for Moms, Dads, and Kids Who Want to Reclaim the Bliss of Childhood and the Joy of Parenting - Marie Sherlock
• More Mudpies: 101 Alternatives to Television - Nancy Blakely
• The Mudpies Book of Boresom Busters - Nancy Blakely
• Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture - Juliet Schor
• The Gift of Nothing - Partick McDonnell
• Dreamers, Discoverers & Dynamos: How to Help the Child Who Is Bright, Bored and Having Problems in School (Formerly Titled 'The Edison Trait') - Lucy Jo Palladino
• Should You Medicate Your Child's Mind? :A Child Psychiatrist Makes Sense of Whether or Not to Give Kids Meds - Elizabeth Roberts
• Fathers, Come Home: A Wake-Up Call for Busy Dads - Bill Swindell
• Fathering from the Fast Lane: Practical Ideas for Busy Dads - Bruce Robinson

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• Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping - Judith Levine
• Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence - Joe Dominquez
• Voluntary Simplicity, Revised Edition: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich - Duane Elgin
• An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It - Al Gore
• An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming - Al Gore

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