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Parents: It’s Time to Start Taking Tech Responsibility
Over the last three weeks, I have read various articles on how parents are being caught unaware when their kids are using their smartphones, tablets or console gaming systems and then are horrified when they get their credit card statements. What parents realize is that they were charged gobs of money while their kids were using their devices unbeknownst to them. (I will admit that this blog post might turn into a bit of a rant)
Four Money Traps Every Mom Should Know
The last thing I expected as I headed up the freeway from San Diego to Los Angeles was a money trap. Traffic? Yes. Frustration and delays? Naturally. But a money trap? Never. Halfway there I had a choice: jump on a wide-open toll road or sit in a sea of traffic only to arrive at my appointment sweaty and swearing. It was an easy but costly decision: my $6.50 toll quickly turned into a …
Quick, Hide The Knives
Two articles in the New York Times and the Atlantic Monthly describe new research that unearths the phenomena of womens so-called indirect aggression.Unfortunately, the findings are described in distinctly negative terms. The Evolution of Bitchiness, is the Atlantics title.A Cold War Fought by Women is the slightly less derogatory title chosen by the Times.These august publications are two of the oldest, WASPiest, Harvard-est publications in the nation, devoured by our …
Face Time or Family Time? Deconstructing the Yahoo Decree
Silicon Valleys most notorious working mom has ground her high heel in the proverbial diaper again. Yahoo President and CEO Marissa Mayertackled the top job when five months pregnant and then (in)famously took only two weeks maternity leave. Now she has banned her employees from telecommuting.
When School Markets to Mom
Hey Mom, the School Called!