day care

Overworked, Debt-Laden Gen X Opting For No Kids

October 26, 2011




I originally posted this last week at Care2.com, but wanted to have a discussion about it with my readers too. I hope you’ll chime in with your thoughts. According to a new study by the Center for Work-Life Policy, 43 percent of Gen X women and 32 percent of Gen X men do not have [...]

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“Poor cities, expensive day care”

May 22, 2010




In today’s newspaper, I was reading an article called Arme Städte, teure Kitas (Poor cities, expensive day care). Let me (roughly) translate the first few paragraphs for you: It is extremely unfair for parents: Depending on where they live, they will pay very different amounts for day care spaces and often the prices vary significantly [...]

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Dr. Phil Stay-at-home mom vs. working mom show

October 14, 2009




I just finished watching the Dr. Phil show on stay-at-home moms vs. working moms that featured bloggers like Jessica Gottlieb (@jessicagottlieb) and Heather Armstrong (@dooce). Although the show touched on some important issues, I found it rather polarizing and one-dimensional. There were a few short mentions of women who work part-time or who do shift-work [...]

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Things you should read…

June 5, 2009




I’ve read some things this week that made me nod. Things that made my jaw drop. Things that you should read. They aren’t really connected in any logical way that I could tie together, so I’ll just throw them at you. Go read them! Ready to piss off a mom blogger? Seek a pregnant woman [...]

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Abrupt

December 27, 2008




How would you feel if: You lose your job over something you didn’t know you were doing wrong and aren’t given an opportunity to change your ways? Your spouse left you suddenly? Your best friend backs out of your weekly lunches with no warning because she’s sick of hearing you whining? Your boss tells you [...]

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Gentle transitions: Transitioning your baby to a nanny or babysitter

December 21, 2008




A reader wrote to me for some help transitioning her very attached baby to a new caregiver. Here is what she said (bold is mine to emphasize some of the things I’ll touch on in my answer): Our baby has always been afraid of strangers -we attributed this to him getting sick & hospitalized very [...]

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Pauline Marois: Profile of a feminist, mother, and leader of social change

October 30, 2008




Elections, elections, elections. We just had the Canadian one, the American one is coming up next week, and then not too long after that we are expecting to go to the polls here in Quebec to elect our next provincial government. This one will be tougher for me. I need to choose between a lackluster [...]

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SAH or WOH? How can we stop restricting mothers’ choices?

October 9, 2008




A few weeks ago, I wrote about choice. I really think that the freedom to make choices is key in a democratic society. Just because we are able to vote in Canada, doesn’t mean that we have a true democracy (see Fair Vote Canada) and just because we theoretically have the right to choose in [...]

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