Ellie started Kindergarten this Fall and I feel as unprepared and blindsided for the torrent of information and schedule management that is now required of me as I did when I embarked on the lovely journey of exclusively breastfeeding and working in network news.
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Before I had my daughter the idea of “balance” never even once crossed my mind…well aside for the times that I was assigned to produce (while working in network news) a piece on it, usually related women and the topic of work/life balance. You know the ones I am talking about, where you total up all of the work that (typically) mom does around the house and extrapolate a value of this work. I knew that this so-called topic of work/life balance existed and was…discussed…and I also knew I had a sum total of zero interest in exploring it.
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I can say with certainty that this isn’t the way I saw my life playing out. I grew up in a traditional, loving household where my mother and father were married until my father’s untimely passing four years ago. The majority of my friends also grew up in two-parent households. It was the norm for me.
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I remember back when I was pregnant with Ellie, a coworker asked me what I planned to do for childcare. I explained that a nanny was really the only option…being single and working crazy hours didn’t make daycare even a remote possibility. I HATED even saying the word “nanny”. It is such a loaded word…one […]
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Originally posted on Lifetime Moms I recently left my job as a producer at a major network news organization, where I was out of the house and in an office, control room, or in the field for at least 50 hours a week. I accepted a position as the managing editor and digital director for […]
Read More ›Recently, a public relations executive for an unnamed organization said that parents should “engage in imaginative play with their children for at least an hour every day.” At first glance, this parent wonders when everyone will stop telling me what I should and should not do with my child. Full disclosure, I am still not […]
Read More ›Originally Posted on Lifetime Moms Earlier this week, Marissa Mayer, Chief Executive Officer of Yahoo, announced that the company would be extending maternity leave and paternity leave. They are allowing moms sixteen weeks of paid time off and dads eight paid weeks off after the birth of a child. New fathers and mothers who have […]
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Originally Posted on Lifetime Moms Oh, the great debate over public versus private gives me great anxiety – and no, I am not talking about my Facebook profile settings (which, by the way, I still can’t quite seem to master). I am talking about the internal and external debate over public education versus private education. […]
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Everyone always says that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but as I parent a 2-year-old, I wonder if it is more important than say, sanity. I am really beginning to wonder. This is how every morning goes in my house. We wake at 630am with the alarm clock known as my […]
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By Guest Writer: TJ Garvin TJ is my brother-in-law and one of the greatest men I know – Ellie and I love him more than he will ever be able to understand Life is tough. No that’s not right, life is largely a pain in the ass. Everyday most of us have several roles to […]
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