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NEW! MomsToWork Job Board

NEW! MomsToWork Job Board

photo credit: carianoff Are you a mom who is thinking about going back to work? Are you looking for a new family friendly job? Or are you curious about career development? On MomsToWork, we write about women and work, and we realize that job boards are just one tool to be used during a job [...]

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Slobfestival with Debbie Wiener

Slobby mommies unite

Slobproof book giveaway plus freebies and furniture Are you a slob? I am. As a busy working mom with two kids, a full-time job, a healthy interest in socializing, reading, exercising, cooking and blogging, something has to give. That big horrifying Halloweenish thing is The Housework. When I first heard The Slob Queen, as I [...]

Angels by day, devils at bedtime

A place where you can be excited to be pregnant

What I liked about this video from Marriott, to mark its inclusion in the Working Mother Magazine top 100 list, was the way Peggy Fang Roe, VP, Marriott International, was so excited about being pregnant with her second child: “It is place where you can openly be excited that you are pregnant, expecting a baby, [...]

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Best places for working moms to work

If you are a stay-at-home (SAHM) mom thinking about going back to work,  or a working mom or dad trying to switch jobs, add the 2010 Working Mother 100 Best Companies list to your research. It gives a description of each company’s policies, the number of women among top earners, etc.  Each profile includes an [...]

When working moms travel, Teddy's company is always welcome, photo by Julie Power, MomstoWork.com

5 Things I Learned While My Kids Were Tugging at My Suitcase

Phaedra Cucina is a working mom advocate and the author of the  acclaimed children’s book, My Mommy’s on a Business Trip. In this guest blog post, she provides advice on how to put the best positive outlook on business travel that takes you away from your home and family. Business trips are rough on kids.  [...]

Be the Dancing Bear!

Be the Dancing Bear!

Guest blogger Susan K. Finston gives her take on working mom guilt. We try so hard to be the “perfect mom”  that we sometimes forget how much others appreciate our beautiful domestic dance, no matter how flawed and how guilty we feel at not doing everything perfectly: A lifetime ago before I was a mother, [...]

Working men make kids fat is the headline we should be seeing

Very Quick Update Leanne Clark responded to my post, Now I’m Making my kids fat,” by tweeting: Can’t we stop beating up on moms? Dads work, too! RT @MomsToWork And now I’m making my kids fat by working, says study. ” She’s right. Why don’t we see headlines like this? Working Dads Make Kids Sick: [...]

Gap watch of guilt

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 and [...]

Work life juggle ain't easy for working moms

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 [...]