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Mom’s Guide To Swine Flu: 16 Places To Get Answers

Here’s a wrap up of links and resources to everything moms need to know and do if the worst happens with swine flu, from how to talk about it with your kids to how to track it. Deep breath first to put it all in context. Swine flu will pass. So did the projectile pooping, [...]

Prepared for a swine flu school closure?

Have you made back up or contingency plans in case you get the call saying swine flu is closing your kid’s school? So far, more than 100 schools are closed, CNN reported this morning. In a live Webinar this morning, Government officials urged parents to plan ahead in case their child’s school is closed. If [...]

Jim and Ned, copyright Julie Power 2009

Confessions of an old mom with a bad hip

Subtitled: Why I don’t need Mother’s Day Cards (flowers still nice though) “You have beautiful grandchildren,” the Safeway bagger said to me the other day. “Yeah, my SONS are beautiful,” I responded. The cashier sensed an emerging crisis (a la India and Pakistan) and threw a lifeline. “Boys, boys, help MOMMY put the cookies in [...]

Recession: Equality time bomb for working women

Six out of ten women think the recession is an equal opportunity time bomb for working women, just tick, tick, ticking away waiting to explode, finds a new survey by PriceWaterhouseCoopers. What’s happening? During a recession, many women turn lemons into lemonade. Working women see redundancy as an “opportunity to exit corporate life during the recession [...]

Praising the Stay-at-home mom

In her new book, Dr. Laura Schlessinger addresses the age old question of whether women should stay-at-home and raise a family. Her book, “In Praise of the Stay-at-Hom Mom,” focuses on the rewards and how-to’s of becoming a SAHM and the benefits for children, families and communities. You can read an excerpt of her book here.

A Twitter message: Mom’s (sic) Should Stay Home

So, a few days ago the @MomsToWork account on Twitter received the following message from @tireguy, a gentleman in Phoenix, Arizona. @MomsToWork Mom’s should stay home with their children. We would be a better society if they would. 11:20 PM Mar 28th from web Needless to say, there are many things I want to say [...]

3 Important Things About Mothers Who Work

Seeing that it is again late on a Sunday night, I really did like this post over at Authentic Organizations about “Mothers Who Work”. 1: Every mother is a working mother. 2: Every mother is a full-time mother. 3: For families with means, the opportunity for either parent to work at home as a full-time, [...]