Top 10 books in Parenting & Families

Each Monday, we do a drill-down on the top 10 books in a particular genre. This week we look at current bestsellers in Parenting & Families:

#1	#2	#3	#4	#5
A Real Mother: stumbling through motherhood	Get Organized! Your 12 Month Home Clutter Killer Guide	And Then I Had Teenagers: Encouragement for Parents of Teens and Preteens	MALAIKA	When God Whispers Loudly

#6	#7	#8	#9	#10
The Widow's Son	Second-Chance Mother	Whisper My Secret	How To Talk To Your Kids & Grandkids: 10 Secrets...	Claude's Canvas: A Great Father Through the Eyes of His Son

All of these books are new to me, so let's take a deeper dive at a few of them:

Subtitled "Stumbling through Motherhood", columnist Denise Malloy's 138-page A Real Mother has a five-star rating and 21 reviews. From the product description: "For the last six years, Malloy has been amusing readers with tales of motherhood, relationships and mid-life. She waxes profound, and occasionally profane, on issues that touch every Real Mother's life - from diapers to dating." Available now for $0.99.

Get Organized! is a 12-month "clutter-killer" guide from Colette Leigh. The 73-page book has a four-star rating and 45 customer reviews. "Step back from the chaos and create a plan!" Chapters include Top Five Clutter Killers, How to Clean Any Room At Lightning Speed, Personalized Cleaning Checklists, Ideas to Create Event, Errand and Chore Charts, and more. It sounds a bit like the "FlyLady" advice, if you're familiar with that. Where was this book when my twins were born?

And Then I Had Teenagers is a meaty 257 pages of encouragement for parents of teens and pre-teens. Some of you may recognize the author, Suzanne Alexander Yates, from her earlier book, And Then I Had Kids. "Drawing from her experience raising five teenagers, Yates walks you through everything from preparing for the teen years to letting your teens go. Her insight will help you create open communication, set limits, understand what's normal (and what's not!), take advantage of peer pressure, build your teens' faith, and much more." Well, now that I have teenage twin daughters, this might be right for me!

Let us know if you've enjoyed any of these top ten books!

Note: In building this list, we use our KindleBoards Top 10 Bestsellers by Genre page - something we developed for our readers to be able to instantly survey a grid of Amazon's most popular books. It's updated real-time, and allows you to scroll to the "next ten" for any genre. Try it out and let us know what you think!