Career and Kids

November 17th, 2006

Reading to your kid

Most people understand how important it is to read to kids when they are little. Storytime also provides a way for you to interact with your children while cuddling on a bed or floor with the kids.  In just a few minutes, you can help improve your kid’s ability to read, increase their interest […]

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November 15th, 2006

Spend time with your kids - Take out the paper and the trash

My daughter volunteered herself for another easy way to spend time with your kids.
Tonight is garbage night. We pulled into the driveway after eating out for dinner. It was already dark and her brother threw up at dinner so we expected to put them straight into bed.
She saw the neighbors’ garbage cans and […]

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November 15th, 2006

Easy Thanksgiving craft to do with your kids

Our daughter came home from preschool with an amazingly simple Thanksgiving craft all of us busy parents can easily do with our kids.
Here is what you need for this Thanksgiving craft:

1 paper plate per kid. The plate needs to be bigger than one of their hands.
Some glue
Marker, crayon, or pencil
Spices

Here is what you do:

Trace […]

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November 13th, 2006

Spending An Average Amount Of Time With Your Kids

I decided that I needed to find out how much time working dads are spending with their kids. According to a study, the average dad is spending 4.1 hours per day with his children. This is up from 2.7 hours per day back in the 60s.
I am not really sure what is included in that […]

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November 9th, 2006

The best job perk I have ever had

I officially started what should be a project where I get to work at home through the first week of January. At first I was worried that I would not be able to get anything done from home and would go crazy being cooped up in the house all day.
It is probably too early to […]

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November 5th, 2006

Career and Kids Mission Statement

All of us at b5media have been tasked with writing a mission statement for our blogs. A public mission statement is a great idea. I had been thinking recently that I could use a little focus.
Career and Kids is about connecting working dads with their families.
That means I am going to try and […]

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November 5th, 2006

Technorati stuff

Please ignore. Just claiming this blog in Technorati.
 
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November 4th, 2006

Do not wait until the last second to ask for help

One of my strong attributes as a programmer is that I can sit and stare all day at a bunch of code that has a problem and eventually figure out what the weird problem is. A strange side effect of that ability is that sometimes I will be working on things that are pretty easy […]

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November 3rd, 2006

A couple of links for this week

I forgot to mention that I have an entry in the Carnival of Family Life from earlier this week. If you are looking for some for some new blogs to keep track of, go check out the Carnival.
I do not have anything entered in the Working at Home Blog Carnival, but did find some […]

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November 3rd, 2006

Working from the same todo list

There is a post over at Parent Hacks about how spouses should coordinate chores around the house by working from the same todo list. Great tip for anybody that works all day and still has stuff to do when they get home. And let’s face it, that probably includes almost all of us whether we […]

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