All Entries Tagged With: "Summer Vacation"
Planning a family vacation: 22 tips for stress free getaways
When it comes to vacation planning, I’ve learned the hard way that spontaneity and children don’t always mix. I’ve been to hell and back, including surviving several 24- hour plus plane rides to Australia from Washington DC. The worst trip was with 13-month old twins. Most working moms only have ten days or so to [...]
Maria Shriver: Summer vacation more stressful than anything else
Why are school vacations so out of sync with the needs of working parents? Our question hit a nerve with Maria Shriver, the author of the Shriver Report: A Women’s Nation Changes Everything. Summer break “is almost more stressful than everything else the entire school year for my family,” Shriver told Mary Kate Cary of [...]
Surviving summer: Five weeks down, five to go
Call me a bitch, but I say 10 weeks of summer vacation is an anachronism and unfair to us working moms. It is now week six of summer vacation, and I am not quite a wreck. When I think of summer vacations, I remember endless days hanging about in a gang of kids. Swimming a [...]
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