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• More on Making Ends Meet

  Just last week, we were musing over moms who do a little somethin'-somethin' on the side to help make ends meet. No. Not that, pervs. Although if you could find enough "clients" who like their "professionals" sticky and smelling of spit-up, you could make quite a bit of extra scratch.   Read More... Posted Jun 25 2008, 02:30 PM by Adrienne Martini with | with no comments Filed under: advice, MLM, work at home, divine caroline

• Canadians Soon to be Even Happier

  When you're Canadian, do you wake up every morning happy ... cold, but happy? I ask because it seems to me that Canadians get it when it comes to families -- healthcare, maternity leave, education. Canadians are just so together, cold but together. Take this as an example: national lawmakers there are seriously considering an overhaul of their lawmaking schedule in order to make it more family friendly. The goal? Getting more parents of young children involved in public office.   Read More... Posted Feb 14 2008, 12:48 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: health, work, Canada, america, working, workplace policies, family leave, work and motherhood, family-friendly, government, work/family balance, work/life balance, family living, family values, work and parenting, family life, family issues, family friendly work place, working at home, "family values", work at home

• What Does This Generation of Moms Want?

  There's about a thousand headlines trying to define what moms of this generation want. Do we hope to return to the domestic spheres of the 1950's housewives (as has been reported), or are we career-minded? Do we care about our jobs or our kids? And one writer says we don't know what we want. When she works fulltime she can't wait to be home with family, but when she is on maternity leave she finds she hates staying at home. She gets a work-from-home freelance career but misses office action, and when she goes back to the office she chafes at the set hours that make her miss her kids. In short, women of this day and age have no idea what they want. What they really, really want. I actually know what women want. Every woman really wants... Read More... Posted Feb 08 2008, 12:39 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: children, kids, family, stay at home moms, women, Life, WAHD, WAHM, quality time, working mothers, work at home, balance, career

• Two Work At Home Parents: Filed Under "Professional Doom" Or "Divorce?"

  The year my son was born, I traded a nice office with a view of the El train and guys in royal purple and gold suits at the menswear shop across the street for a cubicle called my dining room table. I prefer to tell people this is my office because there of the long and awkward pause that comes when I tell them I am working from Starbucks while they try to figure out of I have gone from blogging to barista-ing and if I can get them a fat discount on their decaf fraps. While the flexibility and fortune of my many work at home gigs is great as a parent, I can't imagine how it would work with two parents. Let me clarify: Two parents, two jobs, one home. Just the thought makes me want to stab myself in the neck with my PDA. Read More... Posted Jan 21 2008, 02:27 PM by Jessica Ashley (Sassafrass) with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: working parents, work at home, the office