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• No Good Choices in Child Care Debate

  It’s a familiar paradox to every parent who works outside the home – childcare costs so much that sometimes it just makes more sense to stay home, even if that’s not what you would really prefer to do –and that’s if you can find a spot in a halfway decent center. So I thought this brief blog post from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Working Dad, Paul Nyhan, to be interesting. He stated that on average, child care center directors – that is, the people running the show – make 35 percent less than kindergarten teachers. You know the people who have the most direct contact with the kids make much less. And 17 percent of all family-owed child care centers have closed in the last five years. Something like half of all kids are regularly in child care, he states – Read More... Posted Dec 15 2008, 05:28 PM by Amy Kuras with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: working parents, child care, daycare, stay at home parents, maternity leave, working women, minimum wage, child care workers

• Wealthy TV Chef Says Her Kids Must Work for Money

  Hot British celebrity cook Nigella Lawson, who has more money than God thanks to her upbringing, her commercial success and her marriage to a super rich ad man, says none of her wealth will be passed on to her two kids, Cosima and Bruno, now 13 and 11. None of it. They'll have to get out there and work if they're going to maintain the lifestyles of children whose parents are, as described above, extremely wealthy. My first thought is, damn, what a meanie!  Read More... Posted Jan 29 2008, 09:23 AM by Madeline Holler with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Celebrities, celebrity, wealth, working parents, working moms, celebrilty, rice daddies, working mothers, rich kids, working women, addictions, celebrities are nothing like us, addicts, nigella lawson

• TV- and Parent-Free Activities For Kids. Help!

  I promise myself every year (every month? every day? every hour?) that I'm going to buck up and quit relying TV to numb the kids' minds and keep them away from me in half-hour increments. But it's hard, so hard. Because sometimes, a mom just wants to sit and email! So I was excited about Parents magazine's 25 TV-Free Activities, which I figured would freshen up some of the options (go outside! draw a picture!).  Problem is ...   Read More... Posted Jan 07 2008, 07:05 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: television, tv, work-life balance, working parents, work at home moms, working moms, TV watching, where are the parents, american academy of pediatrics, work and motherhood, what do you do all day?, TV-Turnoff week, work/family balance, work/life balance, television watching, volunteer, tv commercials, work family balance, working at home, working women, work-at-home parents

• Study: Women Still Stand By Their Men

  Between being stay-at-home/work-at-home mom for almost six years and moving every time my husband’s job requires it, I feel like I’m going to get my feminist credentials downgraded to a Focus on the Family pledge form. I swear, I SWEAR, I don’t think men are more important than women, or that my husband’s career happiness is more important than mine. It’s just that what he wants to do has geographical restrictions and what I want to do, well, it’s portable. But I know what it looks like. I just wish this following study weren’t actually reporting the facts: to a majority of American couples, the husband’s career is still more important than the wife’s. A study showed that gender roles are still entrenched and that more often than not, it’s the woman who takes a career hit or gives up a career in order for her husband to pursue his. Really? Still?! Read More... Posted Dec 04 2007, 07:23 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: relationships, jobs, working dads, working at home, working women