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A Working Mom’s Guide to Asking for Flexible Work Arrangements
When you feel like the demands of your home and job may just squeeze the life out of you, it may be time to ask for a flexible work arrangement from your employer. They can take many forms: a scaled-down workweek, compressed hours, working remotely, working nontraditional hours, or sharing a job with a co-worker.…
Do Women Need to Learn How to Speak Out in a Crowd?
Most of my life has been spent in groups of men and women. First, my family of six. Then elementary school classrooms. Then more school, including business school, where 100% of our work occurred in study groups. Then actual business, with its endless small meetings and large presentations, as wel
My Kid Benefits From My Internet Addiction
We all know about videos going viral on the web (like this hot mess of a song)….the internet and its powers are far reaching, for sure. And for good or bad (music).
Road Scholars: Teach Your Kids While You’re Driving
Given how much time the average parent spends driving their kids around, its a bit of a surprise that more people arent into carschooling. The concept, the subject of a book published five years ago by homeschooling authority, columnist and author Diane Flynn Keith (www.homefires.com …
The Modern Mom Book Club’s Pick of the Month: The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
With over 10-million book club members across the country, 90% of them women, it would seem as if every modern mom would already be in a book group. And yet, almost every day, I run into a harried mom at the supermarket, school, or the gym and she says …