WorkingFromHome

Moms more likely to get laid off

by Susan Wagner, Posted Jul 27th 2008 10:00AM

We all know the economy is bad these days -- have you filled up your car lately? bought milk? checked the stock market? For many families, the one thing standing between them and financial stress is Mom's job. Except that in an economic downturn, ...

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Leaving on a jet plane: Helping kids deal with parents who travel

by Susan Wagner, Posted Jul 14th 2008 1:02PM

One of my very favorite commercials is the one where the dad goes away on a business trip and his daughter gives him her stuffed monkey to take along; he uses his cell phone to photograph the monkey in various places while he's traveling and sends ...

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Share and share alike: Equal parenting

by Susan Wagner, Posted Jun 13th 2008 11:03AM

Admit it: at some point in your life as a parent, you have added up all the things you do for the children and the house and the family. If you are lucky, this accounting has not been part of a larger wrangle about what's fair in your house, but it ...

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Is gold the new Tupperware?

by Sandy Maple, Posted May 13th 2008 6:02PM

Many intelligent, enterprising and otherwise employable women choose to stay out of the workplace in order to be home with their children. But the desire to supplement the family income and perhaps have a life beyond the children, has led generations ...

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Stay home, stay happy!

by Rachel Campos-Duffy, Posted Apr 8th 2008 11:00AM

As an at-home mom who struggles to find that balance between my passion for my family and a passionate pursuit of my other interests, I am always chatting with other women in similar situations so I can learn from them. I was recently interviewed ...

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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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Easier for moms to skip work than dads

by Jonathon Morgan, Posted Nov 19th 2007 3:32PM

Life sucks when your kids are sick. Not only is it tough to deal with a fussy, upset, generally discontented child, but if there's not a stay-at-home parent in your household, someone has to take off work. New research, at least in part, confirms ...

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Do you work at night?

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Nov 18th 2007 10:00AM

Since a large component of my work can be done out of my home office, I have a lot of flexibility. If Nolan is sick, I can usually juggle and create strategic napping schedules; if I work late into the night, I can still accomplish all my tasks for ...

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Finally! Summer is over!

by Heather Craven, Posted Sep 4th 2007 9:00AM

I know my children don't feel as elated about the end of summer as I do, their daily groans as they mourn the end of summer are evidence to this. But I am so giddy that I can hardly wait to deposit them all at their school entrances. For today I will ...

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The last days of summer are here. Where are you hiding?

by Heather Craven, Posted Aug 23rd 2007 6:30PM

In our small corner of the world school begins on September 4. That means I have 12 days left until I drop my older two off at their new schools and walk my youngest in to his preschool. It also means that I have 12 more days left as an entertainment ...

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Does your preschool let out for the summer?

by Heather Craven, Posted Aug 6th 2007 2:00PM

I have long been avoiding a certain reality this summer. I knew the time would come, but deep down I fancied that if I ignored the problem it would fix itself. But it didn't and the time has come, August has arrived and with it so has my youngest son ...

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How to keep kids busy while you work from home

by Jonathon Morgan, Posted May 23rd 2007 11:03AM

While I'd rather play games at the park all afternoon, there are some days when I need to get a little work done while my daughter is around. For many parents who work from a home office and have their kids full-time, this is an everyday reality -- ...

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A precarious balance: working from home

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted May 15th 2007 10:30AM

When I told a former colleague that I was leaving the corporation to take a position I could work from home, he smiled at me pityingly. "Ah, I did that once,"he said,"Hardest job I ever did." Hardest job? I thought, as visions of stripey pyjamas and ...

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