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1 Are Working Moms Really Happier Than Stay-at-Home Moms?
Baby Showers
2 Office Baby Showers: On the Clock or After Hours?
TV
3 Fighting Words from Anderson Cooper: Are Stay-at-Home Moms Lazy?
housework
4 Busy Mom Alert: 5 Tips For Keeping Your Home Clean, When You Have No Time
Poll
5 Female Athletes Have It Harder Than Other Working Women?
Headlines
6 Survey Finds That Moms Say Having Baby Younger Is Better
Phone Sex
7 Say What? More Moms Are Moonlighting as Sex Phone Operators
parenting
8 Jeff Bridges Has It All, Is That Possible For a Working Woman?
motherhood
9 OnSugar Blog: The Boss
Disney
10 Interview With Nancy Kanter: Mom in Charge of Playhouse Disney Programming
motherhood
11 Top 5 Motherhood Moments You Don't Want to Miss
parenting
12 Are You a Stay at Home Mom Because It Saves Your Family Money?
motherhood
13 New Mom Bethenny Frankel Isn't All Business Anymore!
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14 The Office: Do You Bring Your Child to Work?
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15 Does Mom Get More Satisfaction From Work or Family?
Poll
16 Do Working Moms Raise Higher-Achieving Children?
community
17 Juggling Kids and Career: How Mothers Are Remembered
Pregnancy
18 Have You Encountered Pregnancy Discrimination in the Workplace?
Balancing (or choosing between) career and motherhood is a decision (or struggle) that every mom faces. This weekend, Motherlode, The New York Times' parenting blog, took a look at the results of a Gallup poll on the emotional satisfaction of working vs. nonworking mothers. Survey says . . . Non-employed women with young children at home are more likely than women with young children at home Read more
Does it cost you more to go to work than to stay at home with your kids? According to CNN Money, for many families, that's become the case. While having one parent stay at home used to be thought of as a luxury, in today's economy, many moms and dads who would rather be working have forfeited their careers because it makes better sense for their family's finances. A 2010 report issued by Child Read more
Here's another post from our friends at Circle of Moms! Every week, we bring you the best parenting and motherhood stories from our partners at Circle of Moms, including this post from Mary Beth Sammons about moments moms don't want to miss. At the risk of sounding like my mom, I’ve come to realize our kids do grow up so fast. Even though some of the moments (like the teen years) can seem Read more
We're excited to share this post from our friends at Circle of Moms! Every week, we will be bringing you the best parenting and motherhood stories from our partners at Circle of Moms, including this post from Kim Westerman about cleaning tips for busy moms. No one needs to tell you that being a mom is a full-time job. So, if you also work outside the home, how in the world do you keep your house Read more
Oh, Anderson. Generally a bastion of solid journalism and insightful commentary, Anderson Cooper seems to have taken a cue from the talk show circuit with one of his recent shows, pitting stay-at-home moms against their work-outside-the-home counterparts. The show's clearly-for-ratings title — "Are Stay-at-Home Moms Lazy?" — is drawn from the outburst of one of the guest moms, who declares Read more
What are you wearing? Making ends meet is becoming increasingly challenging for many Americans, including many single moms, who will do just about anything to keep their families afloat. For some stay-at-home-moms that includes taking work of a slightly scandalous nature — as a sex-phone operator. A Good Morning America story about the stay-at-home-mom as sex phone operator phenomenon Read more
We're thrilled to present this smart LearnVest story here on Savvy! Are you ready for this? Back in the ’70s, all we wanted was to “have it all.” A happy marriage, a good job, healthy kids — and a little bit of work/life balance. Ever since, working moms have put up the good fight, struggling to juggle a career and a home life without dropping the ball (any ball!). Now a new study Read more
Just how offensive is the lowly breast pump? After years of neglect, the US government is finally making breastfeeding a national issue, requiring employers of large companies to provide new moms with dedicated time and space for pumping (not including the bathroom, and issuing a report outlining steps "all sectors of the community" can take to remove the hurdles women face when trying to nurse. Read more
Lots of moms like to think out loud and Loctitious Goldilocks is one of them. Here is an excerpt from her first post on her new The Mumventures of Bionic Woman blog. So it all kicked off with my work you see, being an assistant headteacher in a secondary school has its challenges, but not the school kids. . . no, more like that work-life balance thing, so if you've cracked it please, let me know! Read more
Lots of moms like to think out loud, and trixie360 is one of them. Here is the latest post from her Nice Mommy, Mean Mommy blog. Or good mommy, bad employee? Seems like a pretty sh*tty deal if you have to choose. And choose we must. If I were to give my job everything I'm capable of, to put every ounce of drive and passion and creative fire into my work...I'd never see my kids. If I drove my Read more
