Talk to Your Kids About Working and Why It’s Important (Secret 5: Balancing Work and Single Motherhood
Talk to your kids about working and why it’s important Hi everybody: Talking to your child(ren) about working and why it’s important is Secret Number 5 in my five part series on gaining a better balance between working and being a single mom. It’s important our kids recognize the importance of working and what it […]
5 Secrets for Balancing Work and Single Motherhood (Number 2)
Number Two: Know what your needs are and make sure you communicate them to the people you work with. I have failed myself in determining my needs and sharing them with my work colleagues so many times, I decided to stop counting! When I first became a single mom, I tried my best to hide […]
5 Secrets for Balancing Work and Single Motherhood (Number 1)
Hi everyone – This is a topic we all struggle with…trying to find some kind of balance between single motherhood and work. This is the first post in a 5 post series… Number One: Are you clear on what your company and what your boss need from you? This may seem like a funny place […]
Observations on how the world works, according to our kids…
I got to thinking about all of the cutie pie things my daughter has said to me over the last 6 or 7 years (not that her first year of girly gurples and tweets wasn’t cute, it just wasn’t coherent)….and I thought we should really have a section in the blog to record those tales […]
No, single mothers should not be stigmatized
Articles like this one make me sad about how easy it is for people to opine about all that is wrong with single mothers. I am Indian, and I have felt the eye of judgment pass over me as a single mother both within my community and outside of it. Does anyone think I planned to go […]
http://www.omaha.com/article/20091004/NEWS01/710049897
Interesting article…68% of American mothers of children under 18 work outside the home…