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Some of the articles of interest to working mothers that we’ve seen around the web recently…
- Parents shares celebrity mom Kristen Bell’s safety tip that keeps her kids near the car.
- The Washington Post shares one woman’s experience with hiring a sleep coach for her child and why other parents might benefit from their own sleep coaches.
- The New York Times reports, “New research suggests that including mindfulness skills in childbirth education can help first-time mothers cope with their fears.”
- The New York Times also reports that a mother rewrote her daughter’s homework assignment featuring the story of a working mom and a bumbling dad to be, well, not sexist.
- Scary Mommy shares a work-at-home-mom’s summer survival strategy.
- A Huffington Post contributor asks, “why wait on the memories of your children to travel?”
- Working Mother recalls 25 of the most fabulous fictional working moms in TV and film.
- Romper presents a short video of a mom who finds balance by sharing her social life with her baby.
- Recipe of the Week: A simple, summery watermelon salad for a snack or side dish combines sweet and salty flavors and only takes a few minutes to make.
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AnonMomRant says
maybe it is wishful thinking, but i honestly believe that having a kid has made me better at work
You know- just learning to focus and be fully present, prioritize the important things, and also to engage with people in a way that is productive and just use more positive, uplifting feedback also to disagree better.
I wish more senior women and leaders would talk about how they’ve grown as leaders because of experiences/life outside of work rather than just talk about “having it all” or “finding balance”
Signed- A young mom that cannot really deal with any more of the “I was a jet-setting workaholic and my kids forced balance in my life” talks
anon says
If I hear the term “balance” or “having it all” one more time, I’m going to scream. Those terms are false, meaningless, and set us up to feel crazy when we’re not achieving them. I also hate the dichotomy that all working moms are jet-setting execs. Some are, and bully for them, but most of us exist somewhere in between the extremes that are constantly portrayed in blogs and the media.
Jax says
THANK YOU.
The jet-setting exec stereotype makes me feel like the only mothers who should be working (or complaining about balance) are the ones who are Top Tier Crazy Important.
I’m not an executive, but the money I bring in is incredibly important to my family. Just like teachers, nurses, admins, and every other mother who has a full time job. Can we get a more realistic representation of mothers? Something like 80% of mothers work, and they work at many different jobs!
I have to admit, “balance” is starting to sound really condescending and trite to me. Like something the older generation of church ladies would say to me, because really, they think that I should be home with my kids instead of messing around with income. Those old ladies would couch their disapproval as, “Dear, make sure you find a BALANCE in your life! You want to succeed at work and still have wonderful relationships with your children! Don’t sacrifice one for the other!”
I, for one, am tired of it.
AnonMomRant says
Yes Yes Yes!! It is even worse when senior women in the workplace cover this as part of “mentoring talks” and describe in great detail how they “worked part time to be with children and then came back when the kids grew up, so they are blessed with normal healthy children who dont need wilderness camps ” in a room with younger/junior women with little kids.
It hurts us in so many ways..
1. Implicitly says that we are in the “leaning back stage” of our careers and therefore are not hard workers
2. Implicitly minimizes the different ways people can choose to make kids and careers works
3. Makes moms feel terrible
anon says
I am so tired of all of it: the implicit judgment for everything we do, the unwanted advice, the expectations that we should be all things to all people. Thank g*d for spaces like this because I feel both isolated and criticized IRL.
Anon says
Argh. That Scary Mommy post makes me furious. It is NOT “working from home” if your kids are also home, unless there is another caregiver present to watch them. Stop perpetuating that and giving wfh a bad name.
mascot says
Yeah, I can’t imagine that five hour schedule working for kids under 9 or 10 who are about ready to be left at home alone for short periods of time.
GCA says
Ugh. Yes. Those ‘work from home’ articles, mind you, are written by self-described ‘work from home’ freelance moms who dish up some halfhearted opinion pieces with no sourced quotes for two hours a day to pad out the family budget without having to actually support the family.
It is @%#)(* hard to make it as a freelance writer/ journalist, pitching, hustling and turning out high-quality pieces, with a small child at home.
Ask me how I know.