A working woman’s pledge to stop sweating the silly stuff

My pledge to stay sane when the kids return to school:
“I’m too busy to make lunches every day: The kids will survive occasional canteen crap.
I’m too busy to worry that our house looks like the target of a Scud missile strike every afternoon …
I’m too old to worry about looking fab all the time.  [...]

Moms can’t say, “NO!”

These cards will have pride of place on my fridge. They’re part of a wonderful series by OliveSandwiches.com, matching retro images with modern themes.
I resign as general manager of the universe!
Also loved this one:

Reminded me of our MomstoWork video: Moms say NO!
Can you say no? Do you say no? Or are you always the [...]

Bad child care could turn my beautiful baby into a hoodlum

Just saw this …
“If you thought that the quality of the child care your toddler got wouldn’t matter when he or she was a teenager, think again.”
A new longitudinal study of more than 1,300 children finds the quality of child care does matter, even having an impact on them when they are teens.
Poor quality child [...]

Sears: Get real

Dear Sears, thank you for the housekeeping tip I received in your latest e-newsletter, Manage My Life, suggesting I spend time lubricating my treadmill’s running deck. That’s very important. Not.
If I wanted to lubricate something, I’d probably opt to lubricate something more pressing than my treadmill’s unused running deck.

Sears’ Manage Your Life newsletter [...]

Amazing women’s blogs honored at BlogHer10

If you haven’t read visited any of BlogHer10’s Voices of the Year, you are missing out.
These amazing bloggers were so talented that they made me consider giving up blogging altogether for fear of inadequacy when they weren’t inspiring me to try harder, do more, be bolder, take more risks and say what I really think. [...]

Stay at home mom returning to work: How moms can take the first step

This guest post is by Nancy Anderson, the author of Job Search for Moms.
Resume is NOT the beginning for moms starting a job search, says Nancy Anderson
When deciding whether to jump back into the workforce, many women think all they need is an updated resume.
Unfortunately, they get to the first heading, and stop typing. They [...]

Single moms as role models? Yes

Single moms cop a lot of unfair criticism. So it is great to see them being treated as role models.
The BBC series, World’s Strictest Parents, is looking for educated, disciplined, and loving, single mother host families in the United States to act as a role model family for troubled teens.
The family would need to be [...]

Slobproofing your home from boys, big and little

MomstoWork gets loads of questions from readers … about how to reduce national debt and prevent hyperinflation, even The Wall Street Journal asking for our view on who should succeed Donald Kohn on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.  (Give it to Christina Romer, chairwoman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.)
And then there [...]

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 [...]