Food wars: Mom v. Toddler

In toddler food land, that of macaroni and cheese, hot dogs and chicken nuggets, parents often find themselves stressed regarding their child’s food intake. It’s hard enough to get your child to eat, let alone find a balance to be the force of good vs. junk food.
For parents of children with food allergies or [...]

Working men make kids fat is the headline we should be seeing

Very Quick Update
Leanne Clark responded to my post, Now I’m Making my kids fat,” by tweeting: Can’t we stop beating up on moms? Dads work, too! RT @MomsToWork And now I’m making my kids fat by working, says study. ”
She’s right.
Why don’t we see headlines like this?
Working Dads Make Kids Sick: Children of Dads [...]

Just keep reading … and dancing with your kids

Read, sing, dance with this video, Gotta Keep Reading with your little and big kids.

Students and faculty Ocoee Middle School in Florida made the video to promote reading — changing the lyrics to a song by the Black-Eyed Peas.
Oprah Winfrey filmed a segment of her show on the school’s grounds, and announced that she [...]

Get back to work with these top Twitter peeps

Twitter ninjas get moms back to work

Are you a mom looking to get back to work? Changing jobs? Twitter is a goldmine if you can weed out the tweat from the twaff  … oops, the wheat from the chaff.
We asked Katrina Kibben, Monster.com’s social media ninja, for her top Twitter people to follow to get [...]

And now I am making my kids fat

Children whose mothers work part-time are less likely to be overweight than children whose moms are in full-time work or not in the workforce, according to new Australian research.
The study looked at the impact of mothers’ hours of paid work on children’s lifestyle and weight at ages 4-5 years and 6-7 years, using data from [...]

We interrupt this parenting moment to bring you a moment of guilt

I loved our guest bloggers’ post about guilt being like our pelvic floor … deep, dark and hidden until after we have kids.  And it made me think about my own guilt …
My guiltiest mom moments
Mother guilt is like a TV ad: It interrupts my regularly scheduled programming at defined intervals in an annoying [...]

Take the Oprah pledge for safer driving

Go Oprah!
So far, 138,709 people have signed Oprah’s pledge, promising to make their cars “No Phone Zones.”
Why don’t you join her? We have.
Make your car a no-phone zone today
Make that 138,710 pledges, Oprah!

Swear off dangerous driving that could put your kids and someone else’s at risk by signing Oprah’s pledge today.
At MomstoWork, we’ve already [...]

Working moms: Is guilt like your pelvic floor?

Jayne Jennings & Valerie McDougall founded Guilt Free Business Mothers.com after conducting an international survey of women business owners and work life balance. Their free e-White Paper on the results, including strategies of successful work life balancers, is now available.
In this guest blog they share a result that set them thinking about pelvic floor [...]

Gate at the stairs: Lorrie Moore rocks it

Laugh, cry, agonize, relive bad moments of mothering, lust for food, laugh at pretentiousness and answer these book club questions:

What is the significance of the stairs on the book’s cover?
Is Lorrie Moore criticizing working mothers?
Does she teach pretentiously named courses like the ones she lampoons?
Have you ever done anything that could have easily caused great [...]

Let the Great World Spin …

I love Philippe Petit in Man on Wire, and Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (which starts with Petit’s amazing walk in New York’s skies) captured some of the magic.
Let the Great World Spin was described as “The first great 9/11 novel” by Esquire Magazine, says McCann’s site.
By the way, Man on [...]