How Did You Decide How Many Kids to Have?
How did you decide how many kids to have? How did you decide whether to try for a second (or third, or fourth) child — or when to stop having kids?
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Recipe Open Thread: Give Us Your Best Summer Recipes for Working Moms!
When readers took the survey a while back, many of you noted that you wanted to see more recipes for working moms. Recipes aren’t really my forte (I cook a lot of the same, easy weeknight dinners on repeat) but we’ve started including recipes in our weekly news roundups. Today, let’s have a proper recipe open…
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Baby Registry Regret: What Baby Gifts, Toys, and More Did You Regret Putting On Your Registry?
Here’s a fun thing I’ve been meaning to talk about for a while: baby registry regret! What did you consider to be the registry FLOPS — what items did you really regret putting on your registry (or otherwise buying for your baby)? I’ll acknowledge at the beginning that this can really be particular by child…
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A Week in the Life of a Working Mom: A Midwestern Lawyer Mom with Four Kids
For the sixth installment of our Week in the Life of a Working Mom series, I’m happy to introduce CorporetteMoms reader Elizabeth. She’s a 42-year-old consultant/ lawyer mom to four kids; she lives in the Midwest. Our usual caveat applies: Please remember that this is is a real person who has feelings and isn’t gaining anything from…
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How to Manage Up With Regard to Family Commitments
Here’s a suggestion for a topic we got from folks who took the survey a while back: how can working moms “manage up” with regard to family commitments? Along similar lines, “how to explain your new life choices to an employer who is used to you working long hours”? I can’t wait to hear what…
