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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Books we love … books about families, women, work and the rest

I have read so many great books lately.
The best? Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore, but is she criticizing working mothers? Suggesting they are always too distracted, contracting out their mothering responsibilities? Love to hear what you think.
I’ve included some links from Amazon to others we’ve read.
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Applying for a job? Try to get in within 24 hours

MomstoWork’s career coach Aunt Jobby got this question:

Dear Aunt Jobby
How quickly should I apply for jobs? It often takes me a week or so to redraft my resume, cover letter and get the supporting documents together. Is that too slow? Gimme a break, I am a working mom with too many kids …
Sleepless (and [...]

Why are workplaces still designed for families of the 1960s?

Why are our work places and schools still designed for the working families of the 1960s, the Donna Reeds of this world?
That’s one finding of the latest humdinger of a report on work life imbalance in the U.S. by the Center for American Progress, The Three Faces of Work-Family Conflict, The Poor, the Professionals, and the [...]

Turn a clunker job application into a shiny job search vehicle

Should a mom going back to work or changing jobs  spend as much time fine-tuning and rewriting a resume to suit the job’s qualifications as writing the cover letter?
Yes, says Melanie Chin, a recruiting director with Trilogy Technical Services.
“One of the most important elements to job hunting is making sure that your resume and cover [...]

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 [...]