Like many people, during the holidays, despite my full-time job, I have this fantasy of making the time a winter wonderland and a Christmas fantasy come true for the kids.
But, for whatever reason, it doesn’t always turn out that way.
However, that’s hard to do when I’ve come home from work lately only wanting my […]
Sometimes? I am the working parent poster child.
My job is reasonably flexible, but, there are a few times where I must be there during certain hours, no matter what.
This is one of those times.
And, as a teacher, my husband has to be at his job the next few days because of exams.
And, if you’ve been […]
I love the series of interviews that Derek at Dad Balance is doing with prominent bloggers who are also dads.
Be sure to check out the interview with (the) Problogger, Darren Rowse and the one with Jeremy Schoemaker of Shoemoney.
Great interviews about work, life, and, parenthood with two of my very favorite bloggers!
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Despite the fact that the article assumes working parents have these bad parenting habits because they “feel guilty” because they’re “not around”, this is a good article with some valuable reminders.
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This has been an odd, and, exhausting week at work, mostly due to people’s end of the year deadlines that have somehow translated into emergencies for me.
In fact, I told my husband that I felt like I was in some video game where the player was launching stuff at me to see if they could […]
Every now and then, you have a really, really late night, yet you have to go to work the next morning.
I had to go out of town yesterday, and, decided to make the trip back last night instead of staying in a hotel, and, I got home around 1:30 am to find my husband working […]
My husband is a teacher, and, one of the advantages (No, it’s not the pay, but that was a good guess. Not.) is that he can sometimes get to the kids’ school activities that are near the end of the school day.
Today was the kindergarten Halloween party, and, the room mother called me last week […]
One of the hardest things about being a working parent with school age children is that often you don’t have the afternoon hours to supervise homework.
Even though kids may go to some after school care where they’re supposed to be doing homework, let’s face it, until they are older, and, sometimes not even then, […]
My mother in law was the original working parent.
A busy mother of 4 active boys (like there’s any other kind, no?), she (and my father in law) worked full time, and, even managed to cook a hot breakfast every morning, was involved with school, and, somewhere along the line, was even the president of the […]
A while back, we talked about requesting time off for unspecified “things” when you are a parent, but, how much do you reveal when you are late to work?
Apparently, some excuses are seen as more legitimate than others when you get to your desk after the appointed hour.
According to the UK Times Online:
More than half […]
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