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Career and Kids

July 14th, 2008

3 ways for working parents to spend more time with young kids

Bill at Inside Fatherhood offers 3 ways for working parents to spend more time with young kids.
I’m a big advocate of utilizing your lunch break to take care of things you might normally have to do at home after work. For me, that includes trying to take care of online business.
I haul my laptop to […]

By elizabeth -- 1 comment

July 8th, 2008

Do working parents sacrifice grocery budgets and nutrition?

Escalating 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 […]

By elizabeth -- 3 comments

May 28th, 2008

Divide the Ride

I’m on a roll with the websites.
Another working parent dilemma has been addressed using the Internet.
Getting kids where they’re supposed to be when they’re supposed to be there can be a problem when you’re at work.
Divide the Ride is a site for kids carpools. It helps the families in your organization (team, club, […]

By elizabeth -- 2 comments

February 12th, 2008

Keeping up with school news

There’s an interesting discussion going on at The Juggle, How Do Working Parents Keep Up With School News?.
At first glance, it seems like the issue is about how to get “official” school news, but, in the comments, the deeper issue seems to be, “How do working parents get the ‘inside scoop’ at school?”
Parents who […]

By elizabeth -- 2 comments

February 6th, 2008

With love from the Lifestyles Channel

Valentine’s Day is coming up soon, and, b5media’s Lifestyles Channel is sweetening things up with love notes from each site.
I’m giving my Valentine to you, faithful readers, for visiting Career and Kids, and, sharing your experiences and wisdom about working parenthood.
I try to make this place a spot that emphasizes how, with both job and […]

By elizabeth -- 34 comments

January 29th, 2008

Working Parent Blogs

A peek at the Working Parent-o-Sphere:
- Amy at Work It: A Blog for Moms doesn’t want to scare her boss who is newly back to work from maternity leave.
- Job benefits are on Cindy Krischer Goodman’s mind at The Miami Herald’s The Work/Life Balancing Act.
- Karyn McCormack praises telecommuting in her first post at BusinessWeek’s […]

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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 […]

By elizabeth -- 1 comment

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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December 31st, 2007

Fewer bedtimes stories for kids with working parents?

Are working parents too busy for bedtimes stories?
A study released by Reading Across the Nation shows that reading nightly to children from birth-to-5 only happens in 47.8 percent of America’s homes, and, some people wonder if working parents play a part in these numbers by being gone, or, by being too tired to read to […]

By elizabeth -- 3 comments