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Why Are Companies Still So Inflexible With Working Mothers?

by Katherine Stone, Posted Mar 23rd 2011 1:30PM

Many years ago, I commuted every day, 45 minutes each way, to downtown Atlanta for my job. I was fortunate that I could afford to put my son in a top-notch day care facility, one that he and I both loved. The day care had a very low ratio of ...Why is it so important to companies that everyone work in the same place at the same time?
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How to stop checking email when you should be hanging with the family

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Feb 19th 2008 8:33AM

I'm guilty of it: the furtive Saturday-morning email check, done between sips of coffee as I guiltily let Nolan crunch and apple and watch fifteen minutes of ear-grating Barney. And I'm also guilty of obsessive Blackberry checking: during a recent ...
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A little help with the housework?

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Jan 29th 2008 11:31AM

My friend Erin (we shall call her Erin, lest she be crucified alive by indignant house cleaners) has a housekeeper. Erin is gleefully single, with no children, a thirty-something career woman with glossy locks and an active social calender. She was ...
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Work at home mom

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Oct 18th 2006 12:00PM

I have recently discovered that no, I cannot have it all. OK, I read the books and ingested the advice that insisted that Motherhood is a precarious balancing act, whatever acronym you choose: WAHM, SAHM, career mom, or any deviation thereof. But ...
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Elizabeth Vargas on balancing kids and work

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Oct 1st 2006 7:00PM

A synchronous work/life balance is one of the most important issues in my life at the moment. I'm drawn to books, movies, TV programs and magazine articles that dish on how to be a good Mom while sumultaneously filling career duties and aspirations. ...
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Struggling to balance work/life

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Sep 13th 2006 9:00AM

I am having a hard time balancing this work/life thing. I am discovering what millions of mothers have known long before me: there is no such thing as having it all. Or at least, I can't do it all gracefully.l I feel like someone is constantly being ...
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When to stay home from work

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Aug 29th 2006 11:30AM

As I wrote earlier today, Nolan isn't feeling well. He has a low grade fever, very little appetite, and he's heart wrenchingly cuddly - so different from the little boy who is normally in perpetual motion. Nolan's dad just started a new job; I've ...
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Dads prefer work to family time?

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Aug 28th 2006 9:30AM

I must admit that there have been times during this parenting gig where I've wondered why Nolan's Dad's life doesn't seem to have been turned upside down. He seems to be able to drink his coffee, play sports, socialize with his buddies, work 40 ...
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Secret work culture

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Aug 23rd 2006 8:30AM

Shortly after giving birth to Nolan, I noticed all kinds of things I'd never noticed before. There was suddenly a family change room at my favourite mall, for example. I could have sworn it was invisible before. All of a sudden, other parents gave ...
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