Category: Mom Musings
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Why We Don’t Reward Chores
Personally, I hate doing chores. If someone paid me to do chores I don’t think it would make me any more likely to do them. Sadly, chores are a necessary, if annoying, part of life. Many families enlist things like chore charts, or other reward systems, to encourage children to do more chores. We used…
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Working Parents, School Aged Kids, & Summer Routines
School is almost over. Sadly, as a working parent, your routine doesn’t change just because summer arrives. Instead we have to find alternate care for our kiddos who go to school (and likely after school care of some sort) so we can continue to work and support our families. I went out into the digital…
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Tips For an Organized Home Office – A Guest Post
Juggling all the wonderful parental duties with your professional goals and daily tasks can seem like mission impossible. This is especially true if you have little nestlings running around the house, and your office is only a door away (or not even that far) from the chaos. Having an organized home office is essential to…
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5 Ways to Thrive As Working Parents
In today’s economy many families with children have 2 working parents. This is becoming the new “normal.” Where in my family my dad was the sole wage earner while I was growing up, there is no way we – the family I’ve created with my husband – could live comfortably on only one income. “In…
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Morning Routine Tips For Working Parents
It’s time for the morning rush! Get yourself up, get your kiddos up, eat, get dressed and get ready to head out the door. Being a working mom, the morning routine is not my finest hour. And it is, literally, an hour. If your home is anything like mine there is often yelling involved in…
