Care for the Kids/Keep Up with the Career
As Mother's Day approaches, my search engines are bombarding me with sweet and sappy stories about a mother's love as well as articles containing dismal facts about the sorry condition of women and children around the world.
Over the next few days I will share some of the information I find most relevant, particularly concerning the status of working mothers, stay-at-home moms and those like me who are trying to be a little of both.
For now, I will direct you to a Web site called jobsandmoms.com. You can sign up for a free newsletter that offers "25 Powerful (and Free) Resources to Help Jumpstart Your Mom-Friendly Career."
There's also another Web site called MamaSaid.com, which is geared for part-time and full-time stay-at-home mothers. It's a bit of a hodge-podge but you may find some helpful hints there.
The founders of both these Web sites were quoted in a New York Times business article that offered tips for mothers returning to work. Mothers, they say, shouldn't sell themselves short. While you were running the household, paying the bills and changing diapers, you were honing your time management and organizational skills. (Think about it. Have we ever in our lives had to juggle so many things at once then get up the next morning and do it all over again with the same amount of stamina??)
If you're not just ready to go back to the office, keep yourself current by taking continuing education courses in your field and read industry journals so you don't get behind the times.
I, personally, stay in touch with the ever-changing role of reporters by talking with my former colleagues. Every now and then we go to lunch or dinner and we talk about how things have changed in the office and what is expected of them these days. (Apparently, there's a gadget called a Treo that they carrying around now; it has voice and Internet capabilities. I'm not worrying about it too much because technology undoubtedly will produce something new by the time I get back in a beat.)
Also, choose your volunteer roles carefully, the article says. Help out in areas that relate to your career. (I, for example, am helping my husband's church publicize an upcoming opera concert.)
Here's the link: http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070430/BIZ/704300316/-1/RSS
Over the next few days I will share some of the information I find most relevant, particularly concerning the status of working mothers, stay-at-home moms and those like me who are trying to be a little of both.
For now, I will direct you to a Web site called jobsandmoms.com. You can sign up for a free newsletter that offers "25 Powerful (and Free) Resources to Help Jumpstart Your Mom-Friendly Career."
There's also another Web site called MamaSaid.com, which is geared for part-time and full-time stay-at-home mothers. It's a bit of a hodge-podge but you may find some helpful hints there.
The founders of both these Web sites were quoted in a New York Times business article that offered tips for mothers returning to work. Mothers, they say, shouldn't sell themselves short. While you were running the household, paying the bills and changing diapers, you were honing your time management and organizational skills. (Think about it. Have we ever in our lives had to juggle so many things at once then get up the next morning and do it all over again with the same amount of stamina??)
If you're not just ready to go back to the office, keep yourself current by taking continuing education courses in your field and read industry journals so you don't get behind the times.
I, personally, stay in touch with the ever-changing role of reporters by talking with my former colleagues. Every now and then we go to lunch or dinner and we talk about how things have changed in the office and what is expected of them these days. (Apparently, there's a gadget called a Treo that they carrying around now; it has voice and Internet capabilities. I'm not worrying about it too much because technology undoubtedly will produce something new by the time I get back in a beat.)
Also, choose your volunteer roles carefully, the article says. Help out in areas that relate to your career. (I, for example, am helping my husband's church publicize an upcoming opera concert.)
Here's the link: http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070430/BIZ/704300316/-1/RSS
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