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by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor (Make Mine A Double)
Here’s a big old downside to having three kids under the age of five: dirt. Not just your average dirt but challenging messes, stinky…
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It's time for me to decide whether to continue my holiday into 2010. I created "PleaseTake My Children to Work Day," a holiday for full- and part-time at-home moms, years ago when I was (mostly) a stay-at-home mom of two little kids. I knew that at-home moms wouldn't…
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I'm always going on and on about how much I hate it when people advise me to sleep when the baby sleeps or just go to bed earlier. But, rather than write yet another rant about it, I thought I'd do a little research and find five tips for boosting my energy and beating fatigue -- preferably tips that don't involve ridiculous amounts of caffeine, sugar, and/or anything illegal -- and share them here with you. Ready? Read More »
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I've just finished twisting our 12-year-old's curls into about eleventy-billion tiny, two-strand twists, and my hands are still slick with conditioner. The little two are tucked in bed, stuffed animals clutched in their sweaty little hands. The other big kids are playing "Rock Band" on the XBox with my husband, just a couple of feet away from me in the family room. It's past bedtime, and bits of conversation (like "We should be concentrating our efforts on Killasaurus," and "Daddy! We should play San Francisco now!" and "That's such a sweet song and then they hit you with the 'f' word...") poke holes in my concentration as I try to write.
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I could -- should, really -- go to another room so I can get my work done. I mean, the work has to get done. But I'm loathe to leave. Even when my husband hands me the mic and asks me to sing "Maps" -- an obvious sign that I'm not going to get much done if I'm also expected to sing lead -- I don't go.
Sometimes, the thing that really gets in the way when I'm trying to juggle work and family is myself.
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I was on Facebook the other night, scanning through my friends' status updates. I've declared my love of Facebook before -- sometimes, it's the easiest way for me to reconnect with friends and extended family, and reading the Twitter-like mini-posts and shared news (or non-news) articles makes me feel a little more in-touch with the far-flung people in my life. Read More »
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One of the things I always tell other parents -- especially other working moms who are struggling with their juggling of career and motherhood -- is that they shouldn't feel guilty for letting their little kids watch TV if they need to get their work done.
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It's something I really believe is OK. It's something I do more often than I'd like. And it's something that makes me feel like a total hypocrite because, half a lifetime ago, when I was a nanny, I never turned the TV on when the kids were around. Ever. Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (14) | Blog
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How many times have you written an email, hit “send,” and immediately wished you had an “unsend” button?
Maybe you saw a typo in the split second that the email system was processing. Maybe you wrote the missive in a fit of anger, and belatedly realized that it needed a re-write or several in order to be considered anywhere near diplomatic. Or maybe, in that moment the email was still on your screen, before it flew out into the ether, you saw that you had addressed it to the person you were writing about instead of the person you were writing to. Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (25) | Blog
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