The good people at Five Moms are dedicated to stopping cough medicine abuse in teens.
They’ve got a great new website makeover where you can get the facts about teen cough medicine abuse, learn about ways to protect kids from abuse, and tell other parents to help educate about this dangerous trend.
Please check out this worthwhile cause and learn about it, especially if you have teens.
Tags: cough medicine abuse, Five MomsBe sure to check out Jamie’s post at Blissfully Domestic, 10 Ways For Working Moms to Save Money.
There’s some great tips there, and one of my favorites is to share and trade books and magazines at work.
There are a number of people at work who bring in magazines, there’s always current issues of something around. I am a magazine-buying fool at times, and have probably spent a ton of money over the years.
I’m trying to break myself of it, and reading them or getting them from work has saved me a lot of money and I don’t feel deprived.
Tags: 10 Ways For Working Moms to Save Money, Blisfully DomesticEscalating food prices are a sign of the state of the economy. People are spending more and more at the grocery with fewer things to show for it, and the healthiest items are among the most expensive.
Predictably, the topic of food budgets is in the news and covered on news websites and it seems everyone has something to say about it.
Even though I allow for a certain percentage of crazy commenters when I read a large media outlet site, I have been struck by a theme in many of the comments lately: It’s still easy to eat healthy on a budget, but people don’t because families have two working parents and they’re never home to cook properly, so they just feed their kids fast food all the time.
Now, I’m used to working parents being portrayed as the downfall of society (that was a joke, relax), but being judged as a working parent by what I call the “sancti-foodies” is a new one to me.
You know the type, when you mention that you saw a dancing pig with his hair on fire playing chess at McDonald’s the other day, they respond, “Oh, I wouldn’t know, we don’t ‘do’ McDonald’s, you can make a healthier, cheaper version of it at home, you know.”
Working parents, like all parents, have to provide meals for their families. The average parent wants to feed their family healthy and nutritious meals and stay within a budget, and they try.
It’s no secret that some meals are fancier that others and some meals are more nutritional than others, at least at my house, but it’s just life, it’s not because I work.
Food is getting expensive, there’s no way around it. Sure there are exceptions to most anything, but subscribing to the stereotype that families with two working parents continually feed their children expensive junk because they’re “not at home” is wrong.
Tags: convenience food, grocery budget, McDonald's, Working-ParentsThis may be more for me than for you today, but I’m having the worst time getting my brain back in gear and staying on task at work after traveling the past couple of weeks even after trying to follow my own advice about decompressing after vacation.
Web Worker Daily has some hints about How to Get your Work Done When You’re Not Inspired
The part I struggle with the most is the advice to “Go for quantity first, then evaluate for quality”.
I suffer from an extreme case of perfectionism paralysis when I have trouble doing anything if I can’t do it exactly like I want to do it. However, I’m concluding that, like Nike says, I should, “Just Do It”.
I’ll “just do it” right after I go get something to drink and see what’s going on over in the department and go to the bathroom and get a snack…
Tags: How to Get your Work Done When You’re Not Inspired, Just Do It, Nike, Web-Worker-DailyWe talk a lot about work-life balance since many people want to balance or fit the two together.
Different generations have tried different ways to make both work together, but the Generation Y workers and parents of today don’t believe that balance is possible and they see work and life as being blended.
I’m not sure there is one answer as work-life fit or balance may mean something different for each person.
We talk a lot about it, but in the end, some days work commands more attention and other days life commands attention, and often both demand you at the same time.
It’s just life and what works one day might not work another. We can talk about it, or we can, like Nike says, “Just Do It”.
Tags: Generation Y, Newsweek, Nike, work-life-balanceI’m sharing this with you simply because of the line, “Ted Nugent is the poster child for work-life balance.”
I’m sure I should say something wise here about what he can teach us, but, I am distracted by the fact it’s The Nuge.
It’s the 4th of July, a holiday in the United States and Friday elsewhere.
Stop reading blogs, go outside now, Ted Nugent wants you to.
Tags: Ted Nugent, work-life-balanceGeoff Livingston analyzes his worst professional mistakes over the Buzz Bin.
No matter your job, or where you do your work, everyone is bound to have similar experiences. Often, the mistake is made worse by trying to cover up for it rather than take responsibility for it.
Sure, brainless things happen and we can all learn something from them and sometimes we have to learn over and over again until we “get it” and sometimes our learning experiences can even be funny.
I have lots of things I could share from over the years.
I’m a nurse, and I used to work in the ER. One evening, I was chatting with a colleague in the (empty) trauma room where the most critical patients are treated.
We were joking around, and I must have been too loud, but I said something in the conversation like, “Oh, HELP me!” and suddenly, the entire staff came rushing in, ready to jump into action,
Only there was no action.
And they were not happy.
(via Work Shak)
Tags: Buzz Bin, career mistakes, Geoff Livingston, porfessional mistakes, Work ShakOver at Sparkplugging, Dawud Miracle has some great tips he’s learned through years of experience about getting things done when working from home.
While I don’t work from home, I find these interesting since there are times that I need to do some work at home.
One of the tips I found most interesting is “Remember your family has rhythms & schedules - AND HONOR THEM”.
He discovered that his work breaks would often upset the rhythm of his family’s day and that his being home during day affected his family.
There’s great advice there, go read the rest of his tips for working from home.
Tags: Dawud Miracle, Getting-Things-Done, Sparkplugging, work form homeThis might not apply to us working parents since we never have time to clean the house (I kid, I kid. Mostly.), but my friend The Bachelor Guy warns us of the hazards of cleaning the kitchen with the untoward effects of 17 common cleaning products:
Ammonia –
Causes irritation to eyes and nose, breathing difficulties, chest pains, pulmonary edema (lungs fill with fluid), cataracts and skin burns. High exposure can lead to lung damage, blindness, heart attack or death. Has been shown to produce skin cancer. Typically found in glass cleaners, all-purpose cleaners, and disinfectants.2-butoxyethanol / Ethylene glycol butyl ether –
This chemical can be easily absorbed by the skin or inhaled, and can damage the liver, kidneys, reproductive organs and cause blood disorders. Commonly found in all-purpose cleaners, window cleaners.Ethoxylated nonyl phenols (gender-benders) –
This chemical has been shown to induce female characteristics in male fish (if that doesn’t make you go “holy crap”, nothing will), and poses such a threat to the environment that it has been banned in the UK. It is still available for use in the US. Typically found in household detergents.
Read the rest, it’ll make you not clean the kitchen, or at least it will make you think about what you’re using.
Tags: cleaning kitchen, hazardous cleaning products, THe Bachelor GuySummer’s here and hot weather means time to swim.
Or does it?
At The Juggle, Katherine Meyer writes about two career families not having time to go to the pool anymore. and pool memberships are down.
It got my attention because we dropped our pool membership this year.
Even though my husband is a teacher and is at home during the summer and could go any day of the week, we rarely had time to go. I thought it was just us, though.
I have to admit that after a long week at work, I didn’t always relish the idea of packing up and spending a good chunk of my weekend days away from home, but I did it because we were paying for it, though I usually had fun when I got there.
However, it’s not really because we work that we didn’t have time to spend at the pool, it’s that the kids are getting older and they want to do other things. They also swim at camp and on vacation and didn’t often want to go swimming at the club. It seemed a little odd that we basically ended up telling them, “You’re going to the pool, you’ll have fun and that’s that” so, we dropped the membership.
I feel relieved and guilty at the same time.
I’m glad I don’t have to make the choice about going to the pool on the weekends vs. getting my usual chores done around the house with my limited time, as I frequently felt dissatisfied with both options.
I’m happy that we don’t have the expense anymore, but I feel a little guilty that my youngest child isn’t getting to go since he still loves to swim.
We have a play pool in the back yard that he can swim in, but it’s not the same. He’s a good swimmer, but I can tell he doesn’t have the same skills as the older ones did at that age.
I have fond memories of hanging out at the pool for hours on end during the summer and I wanted that for my kids, but they have so much more available to them now and I guess we can always rejoin if we miss it.
Tags: no time to swim, swimming pool memberships, The-JuggleConnecting working parents with their families
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