News Roundup
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Some of the articles of interest to working mothers that we’ve seen around the web recently…
- Liberating Working Moms offers several ways to make a basic black maternity dress look more festive for holiday events.
- The Mom Edit rounds up some great shapewear and other “undercover wonders” to wear under dresses.
- Free Range Parenting picks out a highlight from Tim Elmore’s Growing Leaders blog post, on doing “less preventing and more preparing.”
- Hellobee has tips to make baby’s first Christmas special and shares 18 Hanukkah crafts for kids.
- Anjali Joshi writes in The New York Times’ Motherlode blog about considering giving her son an “ethnic” name vs. a “white” name. Also from Motherlode: the story of a company who plans to buy breastmilk from “urban African-American women” in Detroit and sell it to hospitals at a 600% markup (with a purported goal to increase breastfeeding rates among black mothers there).
- Here’s your Laugh of the Week: Scary Mommy presents a mom’s (stay-at-home-mom’s?) take on Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space.” (If you haven’t contributed to the original’s 200,000,000+ views, check it out first; it’s kinda fun on its own, anyway.)
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On Corporette Recently…
- Kat shared holiday gift guides for stocking stuffers and personalized add-ons to accompany cash gifts.
- The Hunt rounded up flat boots for work.
- Kat answered readers’ questions about staying comfortable on a long flight while still looking professional and following a business casual dress code when your style is conservative.
- We took a look back into Corporette history.
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