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Previously, on CorporetteMoms…

A year ago, we rounded up 4 companies that rent maternity workwear, shared breakfast ideas for working moms, and explored a week in the life of a technical expert in Sub-Saharan Africa (mom to 1).

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Previously, on CorporetteMoms…

One year ago, we shared tips for packing school lunches and how to use your iPhone to store school paperwork — and a trial lawyer in Georgia (mom to FOUR!) shared a week in her life with us.

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Are You A “Secret Parent” At the Office? How SHOULD Parents be “Louder”?

Emily Oster recently wrote an article in The Atlantic that too many parents are “secret parents,” encouraging “the polite fiction that after the first several months of leave, the child disappears into a void from which he or she emerges for viewing and discussing only during nonworking hours.” Are you guilty of this? Who should “parent loudly” — and what should they do?