January 9th, 2008
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 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
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
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 […]
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January 4th, 2008
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
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
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 […]
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January 1st, 2008
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
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