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When it comes to vacation planning,  I’ve learned the hard way that spontaneity and children don’t always mix. I’ve been to hell and back, including surviving several 24- hour plus plane rides to Australia from Washington DC. The worst trip was with 13-month old twins. Most working moms only have ten days or so to [...]

Having a baby is expensive. No one knows that better than Becky Goddard-Hill, the author of a new book, “How to Afford Time Off With Your Baby: 101 Ways to Ease the Financial Strain.” We asked Becky to share a few of her baby budgeting tips in this guest post. If you’d like to win a [...]

This post is for anyone who’s ever said, “I’m fat,” who’d rather grab another bit of cheese and slurp down one extra glass of wine than embark on another low fat, low life, diet. Fat Girl Friday, or #FatGirlFriday on Twitter, is spreading faster than our collective behinds. We asked guest blogger Becca Bernstein why she [...]

Reading to your kids does pay off, though it is hard to believe it sometimes when they’re little and you are reading the same book for the 90th time. I had a breakthrough mothering moment — the sort of thing that moms like me dream about — when my seven year old twin boys had [...]

  Children love to explore all types of things, their environment, their bodies, the things that can fit into the tiniest spaces in their bodies. Our indoctrination began with a pea. After a few attempts at raisins, (caught in time), our daughter discovered that peas were the perfect fit for a nose.. I was out and could not [...]

Where’s the weirdest place you’ve pumped? Some new moms resort to pumping in the toilet, the car, the boss’ office, the changing rooms at the Gap when they return to work after maternity leave or FMLA. In the third and last post of this series on  preparing for maternity leave, guest blogger Liz O’Donnell talks about [...]

Pity! You can’t accompany your kids to an interview or answer an interviewer’s questions, but you can help them in other practical ways when they start job hunting. It is a fact of life that kids are staying in the family home longer, often while they hunt for their first jobs. In this guest post, expert Heather [...]

Here’s a great resource for anybody who’s ever interviewed for a job anywhere. Recruiting firm Robert Half International has decoded some of the most common questions in a post on Career Builder, What Do Common Interview Questions Really Mean? For example, a very common question: “Why do you want to work here?” Most people say: Many people talk in [...]

Here’s a gob smacking, wake ‘em up, bring recruiters-back-from-the-dead job application … enough to get the weariest, most cynical employer to take a look. The incredible job application, written in the style of a press release, was sent by mail to GasPedal.com, the word of mouth marketing company headed by the very clever Andy Sernovitz, who [...]

In part two of her three part series on preparing for maternity leave,  guest blogger Liz O’ Donnell talks about how to prepare yourself for the harsh realities of life with a baby. As professional as you are, there will be times when new mothers will have to leave the office early or miss a [...]