News Roundup
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Some of the articles of interest to working mothers that we’ve seen around the web recently…
- Just launched: The Nightlight, a blog that offers guides to buying the best baby gear.
- In the NYT, Yael Chatav Schonbrun shares her efforts to combine motherhood and academia.
- In another NYT opinion piece, Courtney E. Martin writes about the difficulty American parents face in finding quality, affordable child care.
- The Muse tells moms to quit five bad habits that just add more stress to our lives. (What do you think of this advice?)
- Apartment Therapy (via Lifehacker) gives you three easy ways to declutter that don’t take much time at all.
Make sure to check out the news update over at Corporette!
On Corporette Recently…
- We talked about what’s worth splurging on in Tales from the Wallet.
- The Hunt brought you six excellent choices for interview totes.
- Another splurge discussion: what are some good ways to reward yourself for a job well done at work?
- Kat shared several of her picks from Sole Society.
- Sara Sarakanti guest posted on five ways to clean up your eating habits.
I am trying to break myself of the #1 bad habit mentioned in the muse article – checking my email before bed (or even worse, in bed). Short of running out and driving to my office, there is usually nothing I can do about the items in my email – they pretty much all involve tasks that have to be done during business hours. So finding out that something is screwed up that I’m going to have to fix tomorrow is just going to mean I get a bad night’s sleep stressing about it, and I still have to deal with it in the morning. That has happened at least 3 times in the past 2 weeks, and I’m trying to break that pattern.
For me, the #1 easiest way to stop it is to take the link to my work email off my front screen of my smartphone. I can still check my work email from my phone, but now it’s 3 or 4 clicks, not one mindless one. So far, so good, we’ll see how long it lasts.