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Career and Kids

Archive for January 2008

January 9th, 2008

Kids and Careers

Since I have 2 degrees in nursing and I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up, I am hoping for something different for my kids.
I have an 8th grader who will graduate in May and then head on to high school.
In the midst of me trying to figure out, […]

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January 8th, 2008

Bill Gates’ last day at Microsoft from CES 2008

Bill Gates is departing Microsoft, and, just like regular folks, he is looking at his next career move.
Here’s a video (hilarious) of Bill checking out his options from the keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2008:

(via Expecting Executive)
Tags: Bill-Gates-CES-2008, Bill-Gates-last-day-at-Microsoft, Career and Kids, Consumer-Electronics-Show

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January 7th, 2008

Working parents who home school

When I read this article about Work-Homeschool balance, I realized I’d never thought of this before: are there homeschooling parents who both work outside the home?
How does that work? Just curious.
That sounds like it would give a new meaning to “balance”.
Tags: Career and Kids, homeschooling, homeschooling-when-both-parents-work

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January 5th, 2008

Former Yellow Wiggle Greg Page update

This site gets quite a few searches for “Greg Page Wiggles sick” or “yellow Wiggle sick”, and, I guess it can be classified as “career and kids” because he’s a working parent, and, many a Wiggles DVD has allowed working parents to get a little work done with kids at home.
According to this interview, it […]

By elizabeth -- 15 comments

January 4th, 2008

Cutest Tax Deduction

Attention parent of babies born in December, 2007:
TurboTax is holding a contest called “America’s Cutest Last-Minute Tax Deduction.”
If you have a child born in December 2007, you are invited to upload a photo of your baby to the contest’s web site, where fellow taxpayers will vote for the cutest and most original photo of […]

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January 3rd, 2008

Resolve to listen more closely to children, even after a long day at work

Lists of New Years Resolutions are easy to come by this time of year (getting organized being a popular one)
I don’t usually make any for more reasons than you care to hear about, but, this list by Alex Miller of Vail Daily in Colorado struck me.
His goals for his family, and, the first one […]

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January 2nd, 2008

Working Parents - Organize your family with Dayrunner Family Matters

Chances are, if you’re a New Year’s Resolution type of person, one of your resolutions involves organizing something.
Working parents might especially have plans to get everyone’s schedule in order and the important papers off the kitchen counter and where they’re supposed to be (wait, that might just be me).
So, when I was was offered a […]

By elizabeth -- 2 comments

January 1st, 2008

Back to the office for many working parents

The holidays are over, and, it’s back to the routine for many of us.
We’ve enjoyed not having to keep up with homework, many (but, not all around here) sports practices have been on hiatus, and, even if you’ve had to go to work the past couple of weeks, it’s likely that the evening routine hasn’t […]

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January 1st, 2008

Welcome, 2008!

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