The Specifics Please

<Work in progress…>
My kids are currently early risers so it hits me around 9 many mornings:  how am I going to get through this day??  We’ve got a 10 hour stretch and nothing planned.  Boredom, and therefore destruction, are close at hand.  Now what?
Know yourself.  The tone of the day relies most heavily on my [...]

Today is Wednesday.  Since Saturday I have had a one-track mind set on potty training my almost 3 year old son.  Check this:  my mom lives in Florida and told me she saw an alligator.  My first thought:  alligators poop.  After reading Everyone Poops (Taro Gomi) so many times of course it was.  My other [...]

Moms and motherhood skills are a lot more than a list of nouns. There are absolutely skills I have developed and practiced as a mom that would make me a better employee.

Forget the sea salt body scrub and aromatherapy candles. New moms need help before they can even consider new modes of relaxation. If you want to choose practical, helpful gifts for a new mom, consider the following.

There is a lot of good advice out there about what not to do on facebook. Here’s another: if you really want someone to have a happy birthday, do not allude to their likely conception date in your birthday wishes.

There are a lot of assumptions about what parents are supposed to do, but no holistic guide. We know children expect the best of us, and mostly we expect the best of ourselves. But let’s pause and remind ourselves exactly WHAT we are expected to do, congratulate ourselves where we are having success and apply ourselves where needed.

I have written a number of Tweets with parenting tips that I learned from the workplace and have effectively put to use at home. A lot of it has to do with leadership and structure, things humans respond well to, not just adults or just children.

I am a stay-at-home mom. But, for 8 years I worked as a Knowledge Manager at a strategy consulting firm. I always quickly add that qualification in there when people ask what I do. Otherwise, I’m afraid I seem frivolous or hard to connect with or maybe just stupid.
Being a mom is hard. It is [...]