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Career and Kids

Archive for March 2007

March 31st, 2007

More on the daycare study

Jill points us to yet another article about the daycare and bad behavior study. However, this post at Slate is a different take on the situation.
“The Kids Are Alright -What the daycare study really found” is a balanced, and, careful analysis of the study heard round the world this week about daycare being correlated to […]

By elizabeth -- 3 comments

March 30th, 2007

Late Night Business Hours for Working Parents

As I rushed from work to the dentist today to make my requested “late in the day” appointment (”Sure, we can do late. How about 2?”), I thought, “I wish there was dentist office with evening hours”.
Then I realized that even if I had a dentist with evening hours, I probably couldn’t get there because […]

By elizabeth -- 7 comments

March 28th, 2007

The Secret to Successful Work Life Balance

There’s an excellent article at eMoms at Home, written by Wendy Piersall’s guest blogger, Craig Harper.
The Secret to Successful Work Life Balance reminds us of what is really important in life.
Tags: Career and Kids, Craig-Harper, eMoms-at-Home, Wendy-Piersall, work-life-balanceShare This

By elizabeth -- 2 comments

March 27th, 2007

Enough, already with Poor Behavior and Daycare

You may wonder why I haven’t commented on what would seem to be the ultimate working parent topic: daycare causes delinquent children, or, whatever the twist of the day is.
I’ve thought about it, but, I just can’t do it. Well, actually, I’m doing it, now, aren’t I? But, you know what I mean.
There is so […]

By elizabeth -- 15 comments

March 26th, 2007

Sick Child - Part the Eleventy Million and One

And, yet again, I have a sick child on the first day back from a vacation.
There’s a nasty stomach virus going around, and, I was naive enough to believe that it wouldn’t affect us even after Busy Girl’s friend got sick on their Spring Break trip, and, had to go home after getting sick. […]

By elizabeth -- 1 comment

March 24th, 2007

Finding time to make family photo albums

In my head, we have nicely done photo albums for each child that are also duplicated and preserved online.
Also, in my head (see why there’s not room for much else in there?), I’ve enlarged and framed all those classic pictures to reflect the time of our lives, and, we have a set of DVDs […]

By elizabeth -- 3 comments

March 22nd, 2007

The “Lunch” Hour

Short of employing the Lunch Clock, if you are lucky enough to get a break at work, there’s never enough time.
While everyone enjoys a break, parents in particular are often grateful for the extra time to try to do a few things you can’t get done at home.
However, if you’re like me, sometimes, it’s […]

By elizabeth -- 0 comments

March 21st, 2007

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What are you waiting for? Go on over there. I’ll wait.
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By elizabeth -- 0 comments

March 21st, 2007

Spring Break Assumptions

It’s Spring Break for a lot of people this week, and, though I’m all for vacation, I’m also finding it hard to get anything done in the workplace because no one is around.
What used to be a time that a few people took off for childcare reasons, or, to spend a day or two with […]

By elizabeth -- 1 comment

March 20th, 2007

What is this “home alone” of which you speak?

Now this is odd.
(Stalkers, and, potential stalkers, don’t read)
My family is gone overnight tonight. I don’t have to do the all too familiar to working parents, “Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go”, thing after work.
No, not the potty, I mean the mad dash to get home to feed/wash/catch various children, animals, and, household items. […]

By elizabeth -- 2 comments

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