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• MomsRising member testifies in the Senate!

  
  MomsRising Blog — Authority: 130
  MomsRising member Desiree with Senator Dodd before the hearing. Today a hearing on H1N1 and the need for paid sick days was held in the Subcommittee on Children and Families of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions.  Currently, 57 million working people across the United States who do ...
  1 day ago

• Fort Hood: Talking to Your Kids About Bad News

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  The horrific killings at Fort Hood last week have dominated the headlines, and its been hard to shield my five-year-old son from the news. Even so, I wonder is it a good idea to protect your children from whats happening in the world around us? I asked Suri Roth, a former teacher and young mom to two daughters, for ...
  2 days ago

• All work and no play makes Jack a ‘depressed’ boy

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Melbourne, Nov 4 (ANI): Kids who do not get enough playtime in early childhood, tend to suffer from depression and mental illness in adolescence, says an Aussie expert.Adolescent psychologist Dr Michael Carr-Gregg has said about one in four young people battle a mental illness before they reach the age of 18.He said ...
  1 week ago

• The Latest Frenzy About Women & Work

  
  Activistas — Authority: 117
  Theres been a media frenzy about women and work in the last couple weeks. From Time Magazine to The Shriver Report to NBC to NPR to the blogosphere, everyones talking about the fact that women now make up half the paid workforce and what that means for us as a culture. Time Magazine did a piece on "What Women ...
  1 week ago

• Thimerosal In H1N1 Vaccine: No Need To Worry

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Parents and pregnant women around the country are rightfully disturbed about the shortage of vaccine for H1N1. The nightly news is filled with stories about people lining up to get the few supplies they can find, and panicky parents are scouring their regions for the vaccine, fearful that their child might end up ...
  1 week ago

• Thimerosal and H1N1 Vaccine: No Need To Worry

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Parents and pregnant women around the country are rightfully disturbed about the shortage of vaccine for H1N1. The nightly news is filled with stories about people lining up to get the few supplies they can find, and panicky parents are scouring their regions for the vaccine, fearful that their child might end up ...
  1 week ago

• Thimerosal and H1N1 Vaccines–No Need To Worry

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Parents and pregnant women around the country are rightfully disturbed about the shortage of vaccine for H1N1. The nightly news is filled with stories about people lining up to get the few supplies they can find, and panicky parents are scouring their regions for the vaccine, fearful that their child might end up ...
  1 week ago

• Can You Afford Two Incomes?

  
  Fine-Tuned Finances — Authority: 508
  The battle of stay-at-home parent versus working parent has been around for longer than anyone cares to remember. There are a great deal of modern parents that will swear that they HAVE to work in order to make end meet. This is a highly explosive statement because of the expense that is incurred with working outside ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Office: Still A Man’s World?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A bit of a brouhaha erupted recently over basketball games at the White House . Seems President Obama likes to unwind over a friendly game of basketball, and invites a rotating squad of high-level Washington power brokers to join him on the White House court. All of them, of course, are men, a growing point of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ms. Magazine has 5 ideas to make our lives way better

  
  Activistas — Authority: 117
  Ms. calls it paycheck feminism .  I dont care what they call it.  Im just glad that so many people are talking about it.   Heres a favorite blurb from the Ms. article, which argues that with women nearing 50% of the workplace, its time to rethink the government policies that were designed for a (wildly) different ...
  2 weeks ago

• How Corporate America Can Support Workers in a Recession

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  We all know times are tough. What, if anything, is Corporate America doing to support its workers—especially Working Parents—these days? I asked Donna Klein, executive chair and president at Corporate Voices for Working Families , for her thoughts. You say that the U.S. has failed working families because ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone

  
  Blonde Mom Blog — Authority: 419
  Fall break is a complete misnomer I’ve decided. The hubby and I have both worked most of the week and Miss A’s daycare is open so for everyone at our house but Miss C it’s a normal school and work week. She stayed with my mom and inlaws Monday through Wednesday. I actually missed her fighting with her baby ...
  2 weeks ago

• Exercise in the Time of Flu

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  This fall I am particularly keen on exercise. My 15-daughter joined the track team, and in a few short weeks I can see the transformation—in her energy, in her strength, and in her carriage. As for me, exercise has not only eased an irksome hip, but it also has helped keep me sane. Awake before dawn and can’t get ...
  3 weeks ago

• Attachment Parenting Month 2009 Blog Carnival of Growth

  
  Attachment Parenting International Blog — Authority: 463
  Happy Attachment Parenting Month ! “Attached at the Heart Through the Years” is the AP Month 2009 theme. “Attached at the Heart Through the Years” is a statement that a healthy and secure attachment between parent and child is a dynamic process that extends beyond infancy and throughout childhood. During ...
  3 weeks ago

• Work 2.0

  
  The Mama Bee — Authority: 113
  I recently read a 2008 article in Edutopia by Harvard professor Clayton Christensen , author of Disrupting Class : How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns , that presents an exciting “Education 2.0″ vision of using technology to create lessons that are tailored to individual ...
  3 weeks ago

• Big Schools May Not Be So Bad

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  The New York Times recently profiled Francis Lewis High School in Queens, one of the top ranked high schools in the city, and wildly popular. Last year nearly 13,000 students applied for admission (in NYC students can apply to any school in their district). The lucky ones who get in can choose electives such as ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mothers ought to have equal rights. Right?

  
  Activistas — Authority: 117
  I had lunch with Valerie Young earlier this week.  She pays close attention to the policy and politics of the issues that affect us mothers in the nations capital.  Shes like the eyes and ears of mothers everywhere - in DC.  Right where we need her! She represents the National Association of Mo ther Centers , ...
  3 weeks ago

• Living on the back 40 when it takes a village

  
  This Mommy Gig — Authority: 103
  Since President Obama was named the Nobel Peace Prize winner last week, vats of ink, servers full of pixels and hours of airtime have been expended debating whether he deserved it, especially in light of the long careers of his fellow nominees. Its lonely out here. No one has mentioned my nominee, however: ...
  4 weeks ago

• Lets Choose -- But Lets Do It Together

  
  Activistas — Authority: 117
  When I had my first child, I quickly realized that my "choice" to work or not work was seriously constrained by economic and cultural forces that were well beyond my control.  Last week, a new census report confirmed what I and so many others learned the hard way:  womens "choices" to work or stay home with ...
  4 weeks ago

• How Working Parents Can Find Jobs In a Recession

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Even if the recession is over , the outlook for job seekers remains bleak. I asked Tory Johnson (pictured here), who is chief executive officer of Women For Hire and author of Fired to Hired , to offer her career advice in an unsettled economy. Question: Unemployment figures show that more men are out of ...
  8 weeks ago

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