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Career and Kids

August 13th, 2008

Death of the “Supermom”?

I caught an interesting article the other day regarding a study from the University of Cambridge that said “most Britons believe that family life suffers if women work, prompting headlines about the death of ‘Supermum’.”
Ooooh… that word…. “supermom.”  It makes me cringe.  Because WHY does it always seem to be the women that deal with […]

By Cherie Burbach -- 9 comments

December 11th, 2006

Each parent has their own responsibilities

A few of my household responsibilities are taking out the trash and anything that involves fixing the computer and the vacuuming. If either of these chores need done during the day, the kids know that they should just wait until I get home and don’t even bother bugging mom about them.
My wife does almost […]

By mike -- 0 comments

November 30th, 2006

Movie Night

We started a once a week movie night with the kids a few weeks back. It helps us stay away from TV before they go to bed most of the week. We are also starting on transition into longer movies. Our daughter has no problem, but our son’s attention span doesn’t make […]

By mike -- 0 comments

November 29th, 2006

Drinking with the kids

Treena Shapiro writes about “family-friendly pubs and child-friendly bar and grills.” and says:
Apparently parents don’t want to have to make the choice between spending time with their kids and giving up more adult-type social activities, so they’re taking their kids with them when they go drinking.
I always think it is strange when I see parents […]

By mike -- 0 comments