Many moms have careers outside the home now, in various fields. It’s a tough job trying to balance both career and being a doting mom to our kids. I’m not saying it can’t be done, just that it’s not necessarily easy to achieve.



Along with the 9-5 expectations, often are the meetings, conferences, and extended hours to beat deadlines. It’s little difficult to explain to a young child that you might not make it to his baseball practice, or on time to help with homework. So, you do what you can to make sure your work is done during the normal hours.



However, there is another issue that comes up with working in the corporate world, which is travel. What do you do to balance your life if you spend a large portion of it traveling for your job? If you are looking for ideas to keep your family life intact while gone, then read on for some tips on how to do fun ‘mommy activities’ and bonding time, even when you are away.



1. Webcams Are a Blessing for Traveling Moms

 Use webcam technology whenever you can, so the kids can see you, as well as hear you. Young children will be excited to connect with you when you can see each other face to face, more so than by phone only.

You can use this time to be silly and make them giggle, which will lead to wanting to connect with you more often. I know many young children love their parents and grandparents, but talking on the phone without visuals seem to bore them quickly.



2. Bring Something Back with You 

Kids love souvenirs, no matter how little it may be, or inexpensive. They will just be thrilled to open something new and know that you were thinking of them while gone. You could use this opportunity to start a collection of some for them, such as postcards, t-shirts, or even Christmas ornaments.



3. Call Early 

Make sure to call early enough that they will remember you calling. If they are too sleepy, they will wake in the morning, wondering why you didn’t call. As I mentioned it earlier, you can tie it in with reading them a bedtime story, after they are in their jammies and ready for bed.



4. Create a Children’s Calendar

 By creating a calendar for the children, they can mark off the days until you come home, getting them more and more excited each day. Other events can be planned on this as well, but I suggest that you make it a calendar for them only.

Have your spouse get involved with helping them to mark each day off, and talk about your return and what it means to them.



5. Plan Activities for Them

 Create activities for them to play while you are gone. However, make sure they know that you created this for them. The caregiver, whether it’s a babysitter or your spouse, can help to let them know it was done before you left and specifically for them.



Things you can plan…


·        Scavenger Hunt

·        Craft Kits that you put together specifically for them

·        Bingo, with cards designed around the family

·        Pictionary



Some of these you can be involved as well, with the use of the webcam. For example, have the scavenger hunt end with a book to be read at bedtime. Bingo and Pictionary can also be played with you over the webcam.



6. Pack Together

 If they help you pack, you could ask them to give you something to sleep with at night. You could return the favor and let them sleep in one of your t-shirts while away. Make sure to dab a little of your cologne on it before you leave…as long as they don’t have allergies. This will create a physical connection while you are gone.



7. Get the Kids Involved in the Pickup 

If you are traveling by plane, have the kids in the car when you are picked up from the airport…when possible. I realize that sometimes the time might not be convenient, or even possible. It also isn’t as convenient as parking your car long term and just driving home, but will be worth it.



However, if the kids can be in the car, or at the luggage pickup, their enthusiasm of seeing you come home will be contagious, as well as they might feel they played a role in getting you home. The ride home can be a great time to catch up on things that you haven’t discussed while they are away.



Hopefully I have shared some ideas to make your traveling more tolerable. You can also use some of this travel time to catch up on a little ‘me time’. Download some good reading for yourself on your ebook reader, draw up a bubble bath, and relax while you can.



ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Lei Chidester is a full-time Internet Marketer and the Editor for http://ereaderguide.org. She is an avid reader and enjoys reading on her Kindle Fire ereader on self-help, health and healing.



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• The Tax & Financial Implications of Returning to Work After Having a Baby

While the majority of women today enter the workforce at some point in their lives, the birth of a child often causes a woman to rethink her career, at least on a temporary basis. Among other concerns, a new mother often must weigh relevant financial concerns, including not only overall household income, but also the costs of daycare, taxes, and other job-related expenses. In some cases, a family may determine that it is simply not cost-effective for a new mother to return to work, when comparing the costs of the mother working vs. the financial impact to the household income of the mother staying at home with the new child.

The first step toward evaluating whether one parent should forego work and remain at home for childcare purposes involves drafting a household budget for both of your potential situations, including one with both parents working and producing income, and one with only one parent working and contributing to the family income. The budget process will help clarify your financial situation. One thing that you may discover is that returning to work may not do much to increase your household income, especially after paying for costs such as childcare, transportation and taxes.

The Marriage Tax Penalty

Our national income tax system places a penalty on married couples with two significant incomes. The combined income of the couple will inevitably push the couple into a higher tax bracket, which causes the couple to owe more in income taxes. This so-called “marriage penalty” actually works as a disincentive for both spouses to work. In some cases, the tax savings may be substantial if one spouse stays home and provides child care, as the family may fall within a much lower tax bracket, thus causing the family to owe less in income taxes.

The Child Tax Credit

Furthermore, by having only one spouse work, your lower tax bracket may entitle you to claim the child tax credit, and even the additional child tax credit in some circumstances. If you are eligible for the child tax credit, you may be able to reduce your income taxes by as much as $1,000 for each qualified minor child. Your child qualifies for the child tax credit if he or she meets the following criteria:

• The child was age 16 or younger at the end of the tax year.
• The child was your biological child, stepchild, foster child, adopted child, sibling, stepsibling, or any of their offspring including your grandchild, niece or nephew.
• The child cannot have provided more than half of his or her own financial support.
• You have claimed the child as your dependent on your federal tax return.
• The child is a citizen, national, or resident alien of the U.S.
• The child has lived with you for more than half of the calendar year for which you must pay taxes.

Your ability to claim the full child tax credit is directly tied to your household’s adjusted gross income, your filing status, and the amount that you owe in income taxes or any alternative minimum tax. As your adjusted gross income rises, the child tax credit phases out.

Moreover, you may be able to claim an additional child tax credit in some circumstances, such as where the income taxes that you owe are too low for you to claim the entire amount of the child tax credit. Therefore, substantially lowering your family’s adjusted gross income by having only one spouse work can entitle you to tax credits that otherwise would be unavailable to you due to your income.

Dependent and Child Care Tax Credit

If both you and your spouse work, and you must pay a qualified caregiver or daycare facility in order for you both to work, then you should be able to claim the dependent and child care tax credit. Based on your income, you are entitled to a tax credit for a certain percentage of the eligible child care expenses that you paid. This percentage ranges from 20% of the expenses that you paid to 35% of the expenses. In any case, this tax credit is capped at $3,000 for one eligible child and $6,000 for two eligible children.

If you wish to claim the dependent and child care tax credit, you must meet the following conditions:

• The expenses were for the care of a child under the age of 13 or a spouse or dependent who was unable to care for himself or herself due to a mental or physical condition.
• You and your spouse had earned income for the tax year.
• The child care provider that you paid for your child’s care is not one of your dependents.
• You paid for child care so that you and/or your spouse could work or look for work.

Assuming that you meet all of the above requirements, you can claim a tax credit for a certain percentage of the child care expenses that you paid. If, however, your employer deducted amounts from your wages pre-tax for the purposes of qualified child care expenses, those amounts reduce the amount of the child care tax credit that you can claim.

There are a variety of factors to consider when deciding to go back to work after the birth of a child. Tax issues – such as the marriage tax penalty, the child tax credit, and the dependent and child care tax credit – should all factor into the decision-making process. Whatever your situation may be, carefully considering these issues is essential to making the right decision for your family.

Linda Lawrence is a writer for BackTaxesHelp.com, a site that provides easy-to-understand guides on resolving tax problems, such as how to remove a bank account levy and how to set up IRS installment plans. Additionally, the BackTaxesHelp Tax Blog offers news and advice on a variety of tax-related topics.

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What email address is right for my job search?

JuliePower589@gmail.com didn’t sound memorable enough for my newly-updated resume or job application.

I’ve seen folks use email addresses and handles like fabcookandmotherroftwins@gmail.com and SexyLongLegs@Hotmail.com for job applications or on LinkedIn, but call me old fashioned, but it doesn’t seem professional enough to me …

If I use one of my existing email addresses, such as JuliePowerwritereditor@gmail.com,  it limits me to a narrow band of media jobs in a contracting market. (Besides, the password is lost, never to be retrieved again.)

So I tried to find a new Gmail address, using my first and last names, as recommended by most experts. Google’s Gmail confirmed that I am one of many Julie Powers. To differentiate from the other Julie Powers out there, including the Super Hero,  Julie Power AKA Lightspeed,  Gmail suggested:

Julie Power 4 is the best of a bad lot. The rest are totally forgettable and hard for an HR person to recall. When I considered using one of my existing Rocketmail email addresses,  a good friend asked if I’d heard of Google. Ouch. That’s not a good look for someone like me touting her new media skills.

I asked what HR experts thought of something like HireJuliePower@gmail.com.

Catchy? Silly?

Julie Power, lightspeed, can do anything.

Is it unprofessional? Or is it just the thing to stand out in the inbox of that jaded HR expert? For feedback, I went to the MomstoWork brain trust, our Twitter followers:

@MomsToWork

The very helpful @PrettyPinkPro (must ask her whether this is her email because it conjures up other versions of pros to me, if you get my drift), replied:

I responded:

@MomsToWork MomsToWork.com

She replied at length, arguing that it was too much of a gamble that it would be seen as gimmicky.

As background, four months ago we sold our house in Maryland, USA, quit our jobs, took the kids out of school, and moved back to Australia after 16 years in the USA. While I am not in a rush to go back to work, I do have to update my American resume and find a fresh email address, just in case the perfect job comes along.

What kind of email address do you use for finding a job? What’s the silliest email address you’ve seen? The dumbest you’ve seen on a resume?

Tell me before I go with WillWorkforLittleinExchangeforFlexibleKidFriendlyHours@Helpme.com

If you’re asking the same question, check out the tips posted below from Jumpstart Your Job Search.

	Does your e-mail address project the right image? Your e-mail should not be silly or playful, but professional. Do not use cute or “personal” e-mail addresses like queenmother@abc.com, JohnsonFamily@123.com, harleyhunk@abc.com, cat-luvR@)xyz.com, and so on.
	Is your e-mail address short and intuitive? Avoid e-mail addresses with long strings of numbers and letters. Try to select an e-mail address that’s easy to remember and get the shortest e-mail address you can find.
	Does your e-mail address include digits like L, I, 0, or O? The digit 0 looks like the letter O and a non-capitalized L (l) looks like a capitalized i (I). Avoid using these letters and digits.

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What kind of work are you searching for?

On MomsToWork, we’ve written extensively about women and work – how to find a job, write a cover letter and resume, interviewing tips and more. But I’ve always hoped to take this a step further and to start connecting people with the jobs they really want to do.

In the spirit, this post is an open job thread. Post your (anyone can post, not just Moms) experience and what you’re looking for and let’s see if we can connect you with someone who can help.

Note: We’ll be tweeting – and otherwise promoting – this post periodically throughout the coming weeks, we’d appreciate your help too!

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The report, Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being, released yesterday, is said by the White House to be the most comprehensive report on the state of women in 50 years.

There is nothing surprising really in the report. Most of us know the data. What is surprising, shocking and appalling is that it is 50 years since the last major report on women like this.

Are we only 75% as important as men? (see data below on women’s earnings compared with men)

It is only fitting that the report was released on the first day of Women’s History Month, with the theme: “Our History is Our Strength.”

We need more accounting of how we are changing and how we are not. And someone needs to be held accountable.

In a statement, Valerie Jarrett, chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, said:

“The Obama Administration has been focused on addressing the challenges faced by women and girls from day one because we know that the success of women and girls is vital to winning the future. Today’s report not only serves as a look back on American women’s lives, but serves as a guidepost to help us move forward.”

Let’s hope this report, showing where we are right now, will lead to real change for our daughters and friends.

Because there is no real equality in sight in my lifetime or yours … unless you are very young … given the rate of change revealed in the White House‘s major report on women released yesterday.

Even if I live to a ripe old age, as more women than men will do, the report shows women like me are more likely to die old and poor.

Women made 75% as much as their male counterparts in 2009, across all educational levels, confirmed the report released yesterday.

Women are having babies later, getting married less and later and doing better at school but they’re still lagging behind men when it comes to earning power, confirms the White House report. And men and women still tend to work in different occupations, with three times as many women working in administrative jobs than men and few women working in finance or construction.

For my female friends in finance, there is some good news. The number of women has increased from 9% to 14%.

Men and women also have equal access to workplace flexibility but more women work part-time more than men.

Even if you don’t have time to read the entire report, glance down the list of chapters (formatted for the web-savvy reader who likes to skim and bounce ) and you’ll be better informed. The White House will be releasing the report in bite-sized chunks during Women’s History Month.

There’s plenty to read on the report, including by these commentators:

• The New White House Report on Women, and What We Have to Stop Complaining About (blogs.forbes.com) Momstowork commentary: Ali Brown’s account annoyed me. Yes, more women should launch their own businesses, as she suggests, instead of whining about the system, but not every woman is suited to running her own business or wants to do that. But how many small businesses fail? More than succeed each year, and that’s a risky proposition for many women without resources.  She also says the masculine model sucks for us. Yes, but it sucks for many men too. We need to preach that work life fit is something that benefits men and women, those with children and without, to effect a change. We need to stop making this a women’s issue but a people’s issue.

• “White House Study on Women: Not That Much Has Changed” and related posts (blogs.howstuffworks.com) Cristen Conger reports, “From the looks of it, though, the major report finding is that there is no major finding. The outlook for women is a mixed bag, not surprisingly. As we’ve been hearing for a while now, women outnumber men in college — and yet the gender pay gap persists. Women outlive men, but we’re more likely to face a range of healthcare issues, including lack of insurance coverage as well as higher rates of depression and obesity. And though violent crimes against women have dropped, problems with intimate partner violence and stalking persist.”
• Women Gain in Job Market, Lag on Pay, White House Report Says – Bloomberg (news.google.com)
• The Caucus: White House Issues Report on Women in America (thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com)
• Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being | The White House (kingstonaauw.blogspot.com)
• “Women’s History Month 2011″ and related posts (andersonatlarge.typepad.com)
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• Women Advance, Still Lag on Wages (online.wsj.com)
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• The State of American Women (blogs.wsj.com)
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Your crazy life with a work-obsessed spouse and loudmouth children could make your family the next Jon and Kate-style reality TV show stars! Read on … I just got this email, which made me laugh. My comments are in italics.

Life-changing new docu-series (is that we call reality TV these days?) that empowers real families to rediscover what family (yes, your family really isn’t a family until a TV expert fixes you up, think Super Nanny) is all about.

This groundbreaking new series (so shockingly different from the other shows cast by the same company like Fairy Job Mother and Shedding for the Wedding) is about people who find it a challenge to maintain a healthy balance between their family and work lives. (Point taken. I am writing this while NOT supervising my children’s homework. My husband is still at work.  Better go.)

If you answer, “YES” to any of the following questions, you are not alone. We would love to speak to you and hear your story:

Is your spouse a workaholic?

Only when he wants to avoid me.

Has your spouse missed major milestones in your kids lives?

Projectile vomit clean up? Yes.

Do you miss having dinner as a family?

We eat dinner together so often it is a relief to miss it occasionally.

Do your kids always complain that you or your spouse is never home or available?

Nope, go out Mom!

Is it hard for your spouse to put the computer or cell phone down and enjoy family time? Are you watching me right now?

Are you ready for your spouse to put your family life first and create the balance you need to raise a happy, healthy family?

That sounds like way too much togetherness.

We are looking for families who:

• Live in Southern California.
• Have a minimum of 2 children between the ages of 7-17.
• Have a workaholic parent that needs a new perspective on life.
• Families with expressive and opinionated children who have a strong reaction to their parents overwhelming responsibilities at work.

EMAIL US NOW AT:

Castingtimeout@gmail.com

Please include your name, address, occupation, contact phone numbers, email addresses, a recent photograph of you and your family, and a brief summary of how the workaholic parent has effected the family dynamic.

For more information, please contact MysticArt Pictures.

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You can’t afford to skip Twitter if you are a job seeker. These days, the social media network acts as a mega job aggregator, bringing together thousands of recruiters, job sites and job hunters.

Twitter can fast-track a job search if you’re a mom returning to work after a gap at home, a SAHM who needs money quick or a working parent who’s trying to change jobs.

Why? It’s quick and concise. You get the information you need if you follow the right peeps. Translation? You can skim hundreds of job tweets quickly.

Career sites like Monster are using Twitter to match job seekers with potential jobs, and vice versa. Monster even does twitter style matchmaking, where you tweet what you want and they’ll match you up. They’ve been tweeting jobs on Fridays using the #HireFriday hashtag.

Here are 15 fabulous and fruitful ways to find a job on Twitter:

1. Follow accounts that tweet jobs and advice…we can think of at least one.
2. Research if your local paper has a Twitter job feed. It seems that these days nearly every news organization has their own Twitter job feed.
3. Follow Twitter accounts like TwitJobSearch, a job search engine built just for Twitter. When we searched, there were over 11,000 jobs available just for RNs. A search for marketing manager delivered over 67,000 positions. See this result.
4. Post your resume on TweetMyJobs, a social media site for job seekers and recruiters using Twitter, or TweetMyResume.



5. Get to know hashtags. Even searching Twitter using the hashtag #job, you’ll find hundreds of different positions vacant and Twitter accounts that are advertising jobs.
6. Search for recruiters and companies that post jobs in your region, such as Canada Job Search and BuildingJobsUK.
7. Follow companies you are targeting on Twitter. For example, Citibank posts vacancies using the CitiJobs account as does Sodexo. Hundreds of other companies are using Twitter, too, reports TheUnderCoverRecruiter who has compiled a mega list of companies posting jobs on Twitter, broken up into niches. Another good list, curated by Susan Joyce of JobHuntOrg, is EmployersRecruiting.
8. Follow accounts that tweet in your niche such as the account, GetInternisJobs, which tweets jobs in Internal Medicine, and EmailJobs for jobs in email marketing, etc.
9. Look for Twitter accounts that may specialize in jobs that suit your lifestyle. Use Twitter’s search function to find part-time jobs such as this list or another list of jobs for moms at search.twitter.com. But be careful. There are lot of spammers and scammers targeting moms with bogus work from home, get rich by 3 p.m. when your kid gets off the bus…
10. Use Twitter for intelligence and insider information on your target companies such by using Twitter search. See how this search for jobs at Zappos brings up a little trove of info.
11. Fall in love with Twitter lists, where users create their lists of people to follow in their area. You don’t need to create your own list of top HR folks and recruiters. Just check out the lists already created by others in that niche. For example, MonsterCareers has created several lists including @MonsterCareers/monster-com @MonsterCareers/hiring-leaders @MonsterCareers/career-advice.
12. Learn to love hashtags, as overused as they are. They let you track a discussion, an idea or a group of folks. See this post by CareerRocketeer on how to use the top 100 job hashtags in your job search.
13. Follow the job experts and HR consultants who LOVE LOVE LOVE Twitter judging by the amount they tweet. Start your search with this list of 150 top experts by CareerRocketeer.
14. Twitter novice? Start with The Beginner’s Guide To Finding A Job With Twitter by the JobMob.
15. Connect and follow execs in companies on your target list using ExecTweets. For example, click on the list of retail execs and you’ll hit a list including Virgin’s Richard Branson. My favorite tool to find and connect with people is Twellow because it is highly segmented and it’ll suggest people for you to follow based on your search. Say you are interested in finding a job at a nonprofit in Kentucky… well, that search turned up a page of results with valuable info.

Bonus idea: Follow us on Twitter at MomstoWork and Like us on Facebook. We’ll love you back. Thanks!

Do you have a success story? Share it with us please by leaving a comment below.

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Who hasn’t asked for help! Applying for a job is hard, and sometimes it helps to use a cover letter sample or a cover letter template to get started.

Here”s a great one from Nancy Anderson (@Nancy_1 on Twitter) of BlackBird Learning Associates provided this template, which any mom (or dad) looking for a new job can use.

You can see it uses two-columns.

Here’s a structure you can use for your next job application. Thanks Nancy!
_______________________________________________________________________________________

Proper Salutation/Address Information                                                        Date

Dear Mr. /Ms. Last Name;

Your open position on the (company) website calls for many of the abilities I have developed in my 10 years of Human Resources experience.  My background indicates experience and successful implementation of a number of innovative recruiting processes with (company) including:

There are other areas of my background including my educational background, solid social networking and employee referral abilities, on-boarding program design and organization skills that may also be of interest to you.  I look forward to the opportunity of meeting with you personally to discuss how I might fit into your organization.

Sincerely,

Name

Phone number

Your email address

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When Kristen Clark, an HR professional, returned to work after the birth of her first child, a daughter now four, she didn’t mention the gap in her resume when she’d been at home.

In retrospect, she thinks that was a mistake.

“I used to have an empty space on my resume, which I would openly explain during interviews, but I am sure that there were many times that my resume was disregarded before that point.”

Why did she decide to go with the most conventional description?

“I only added the “stay at home mom” line after I began my current position and saw the many negative things that are hidden in employment gaps (i.e, long stretches of unemployment following a nasty termination),” Kristen explained.

Kristen had written a blog post about how to address employment gaps, “To tell you the truth,” and thought she should heed “my own advice and not look as though I was hiding something.”

“When I was ready to go back to work after being at home, I did not have anything to fill that gap on my resume, and I think that my resume was probably passed over many times as someone who had just been unemployed for a long period of time.”

Are these terms right for a resume? Chief of Home Operations, Stay at home parent, full time parent/mom, house manager?

Should a mom returning to paid work outside the home use a title like Chief of Home Operations (COHO) or home manager in their resume to cover the period when she was a home looking after children or even elderly relatives?

Kristen says:  “As for the term ‘stay at home mom,’ I have seen many variations (stay at home parent, full time parent/mom, house manager), but many of those feel to me like women are trying to overcompensate … as though the role of Mom isn’t good enough.”

“That’s what I did during that period: I was a Mom who stayed at home with my daughter.”

“And now I am a Mom who works in an office during the day. The term is simply a preference for me.”

Our thanks to Kristen for generously providing her resume as an example for other women. Yeah!

Download Kristen’s Resume >>

If you’d like to help other moms returning to the workplace, please send us a copy of your resume (julie@momstowork.com) and we’ll post it.

It may also be a way to get publicity if you are job seeker!!!

Follow Kristen on Twitter.

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