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The Work/Life Balancing Act

• President Obama talks work life balance

  
  Who's more of a family man, Obama or Romney, Biden or Ryan?

  All of them are working hard to make sure they are portrayed as one. It's encouraging to me that being viewed as "good father" is important to voters.

  Yesterday, President Obama decided to hold an Ask Me Anything online chat [...]

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• Storms test workplace flexibility

  The minute I heard that South Florida schools were closed on Monday, my kids cheered and I groaned. If I listened hard enough, I could hear other working parents groan, too. Up north, parents have to contend with snow days. Here we have to deal with storm days. Regardless, all of us have to [...]

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• A working parent's nightmare: When the school bus doesn't show up

   

  This morning, I was out walking my dog when I saw a school bus approach the bus stop in my neighborhood. It was 15 minutes after the time school had started. A father waiting at the bus stop was livid. He was late to work and his kid was late to [...]

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• Does shifting a career path mean failure?

  Yesterday, I interviewed artist Romero Britto for a profile I'm writing. I love his work and I would guess that many others do too based on his success. He told me he loved to paint as a kid, but he thought he wanted to be a diplomat when he [...]

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• Teachers offer back-to-school advice for working parents

  A friend of mine met her daughter's teacher for the first time a few months before school started -- at Walmart. In the check out line, she learned about reading resources that could have helped her daughter had she known about them earlier in the year. She has vowed to [...]

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• Intern Queen tells how to hire an intern this fall

  These days most of us could use an extra set of hands around the office -- even better if that set of hands costs you nothing and allows you to mold the next generation of worker. Think intern! 

  With school about to start, now is a great time to reach out [...]

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• The best back-to-school organizing tips I've collected

   

   

   

  Today, I dropped my youngest off for his first day of middle school and watched him walk excitedly into the building. It hit me that I'm moving into a new phase in my life. As I usher my son along the path of being more independent, I can pull [...]

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• Working Parents get back-to-school anxiety too

   

  
  
  

  This week I have a knot in my stomach. I get it every year around this time as I prepare the kids for back to school. Like most parents, I want the school year to go smoothly. I want their school schedules to blend well with my work [...]

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• Are business cards still worthwhile?

   

  Here's a statement from Workforce.com that recently caught my attention: Business cards don't carry the same weight today as they did in the past, unless you're referring to how they weigh down the fishbowl at your local bistro from folks fishing for free lunches. True?

  These days more of us are likely to [...]

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• Taking risks to find work life balance

  How gutsy are you? Do you know that men happen to be bigger risk takers than women in some areas of life? Being a risk taker can pay off -- in career success, in financial success in life accomplishments. 

  I consider Julia Yarbough a risk taker.

  Her life story will wow [...]

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