Moms! 10 Things Mary Poppins Can Teach You About Saying “No!” and Meaning It

Have trouble saying “No?” Here’s a great guest post by career coach Karen Keller. This is the first part of a two part series. The second will appear on Monday.
Moms live in a world of constant “siren calling.” Everyone asks them to do everything and anything. Potlucks, volunteering, chauffeuring kids … juggling work and [...]

Moms: Just say “No”

How can working moms handle the endless demands on their time? Why do we find it hard to just say no?
When we asked guest blogger Karen Keller how moms can say “no,”   she wrote a two-part series. Here’s part two:

Direct your focus: Consider the 80/20 rule; 80% of your focus should [...]

Who is this nursing mom’s best friend? Three guesses

Rebecca Thomas is a hard working mom, a Web content manager, who’s nursed two babies, both times pumping at work. When we asked her to contribute this guest blog post about nursing at work, she delivered this tribute to her “best friend.”
Is it her mom, her husband, her college buddy? Nope. Read what Rebecca says [...]

10 tips to ease financial strain of maternity leave

Having a baby is expensive. No one knows that better than
Becky Goddard-Hill, the author of a new book, “How to Afford Time Off With Your Baby: 101 Ways to Ease the Financial Strain.”
We asked Becky to share a few of her baby budgeting tips in this guest post. If you’d like to win a [...]

#Fat Girl Friday on Twitter

This post is for anyone who’s ever said, “I’m fat,” who’d rather grab another bit of cheese and slurp down one extra glass of wine than embark on another low fat, low life, diet.

Fat Girl Friday, or #FatGirlFriday on Twitter, is spreading faster than our collective behinds. We asked guest blogger Becca Bernstein why she [...]

Nursing: Through rain, spiders and toilets

Where’s the weirdest place you’ve pumped? Some new moms resort to pumping in the toilet, the car, the boss’ office, the changing rooms at the Gap when they return to work after maternity leave or FMLA.
In the third and last post of this series on  preparing for maternity leave, guest blogger Liz O’Donnell talks about [...]

How to be an effective helicopter parent

Pity! You can’t accompany your kids to an interview or answer an interviewer’s questions, but you can help them in other practical ways when they start job hunting.
It is a fact of life that kids are staying in the family home longer, often while they hunt for their first jobs.
In this guest post, expert Heather [...]

Banking good will, nearly as important as banking milk

In part two of her three part series on preparing for maternity leave,  guest blogger Liz O’ Donnell talks about how to prepare yourself for the harsh realities of life with a baby. As professional as you are, there will be times when new mothers will have to leave the office early or miss a [...]

Manage Maternity Leave (Before You Go)

Don’t offer to go back to work earlier than you have to, urges Liz O’Donnnell, a freelance writer and mother, in the first of three must-read guest posts about managing maternity leave.
Managing your time-off for maternity leave should start as soon as you learn you are pregnant, even before you tell your boss [...]

Are we preaching to the choir?

Here’s something scarier than Halloween if you are a young woman …
Did you know that within a year out of college that women working full time already earn less than their male colleagues, even in the same professions?
That’s just one of the interesting comments about the wage gap between men and women made by [...]