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How To Find A Family-Friendly Company To Work For

How To Find A Family-Friendly Company To Work For

Work and family responsibilities can sometimes be a difficult balancing act but working in a family-friendly company can help even the scales. Get some practical tips on how to spot a family-centered company here.

This is Lucy*.

Lucy loves her job. She is a young, single mom who works at a placement firm for community nurses and caregivers. She finds deep satisfaction in being able to match licensed healthcare providers into families that need specific care. Every once in a while Lucy receives touching thank you notes usually from parents of children who have special needs. She neatly tacks them up her cubicle along with happy photos of her two children, ages 3 and 7 ½ months. It keeps her inspired.

Sometimes work can be difficult, what with the daily demands of child care or one her kids occasionally getting the flu or tummy ache, being a single working mother is never easy.

What eases Lucy’s everyday burdens is that she’s lucky to belong to a family-friendly workplace that supports her role as a single mother. This was primarily the reason why she stayed on in the company. They supported her through her divorce, were generous with parental leaves for little emergencies and events at school and, even if the company is small, they’ve given her annual performance raises during all of her work anniversaries for a job well done.

It wasn’t perfect, though. No place ever is. [Read more…]

10 Practical Gift Ideas For New Moms That Will Cost You $0.00

10 Practical Gift Ideas For New Moms That Will Cost You $0.00Scouring the internet for a list of must-haves for a new mom is easy – from swanky, luxurious spa memberships to inexpensive, handmade gift baskets, online searches should glean a chockful of results that will give you an endless list of gift ideas for new moms that will leave your head spinning.

But we hope to end your search right here, right now because we’re sure that not many results online or anywhere else will show you anything that won’t require you to provide your credit card details. [Read more…]

The Ultimate Guide To Choosing A Good Babysitter

The Ultimate Guide To Choosing A Good Babysitter

One of the toughest aspects of parenting is definitely looking for trustworthy child care when moms and dads need a bit of time off to run an important errand or to simply try and find a brief window of much-needed time for themselves – to go on a date, to head to the gym, to have a coffee with a good friend, or simply sit on a park bench and enjoy a few kid-free hours. Experts do say that part of healthy parenting is to take some adult-time to be alone even for just a little while.

Whatever reason you may have for needing a babysitter, though, finding someone you can actually trust enough to leave your child with can prove to be a complicated and sometimes overwhelming process.

Complicated because parents naturally don’t easily entrust just anyone with their children. Overwhelming because there are just so many things to consider! In this day and age, one can never be too careful when it comes to choosing the right person to look after your child in your absence.

In this article, we break down the process of finding a babysitter from start to finish to give you a complete, comprehensive guide. The goal is to hopefully make things easier for you and get you well on your way to finding the perfect person to look after your most precious ones – your children.

Before we start, let’s first consider a couple of things. [Read more…]

A Family Is A Unit – Is Yours One?

A Family Is A Unit - Is Yours One?

The need for a strong family unit is even more important today compared to our parents’ time.

These days, parents tend to work longer hours, and even children are forced to spend more time doing co-curricular activities to prepare them for an ever changing work environment that awaits them – not to mention the temptation of the internet.

In an ideal setting, the idea of a “home” is supposed to be a space where each family member would yearn to return to and a place where you can draw unconditional love and support from. But the reality for many families, not just in the US, but around the world, a home is where a family member just rest for the night in order to recuperate in preparation for the next day.

Some families have it worse than others, but the point is, the demands and challenges of our fast paced world is slowly contributing to the breakdown of family relationships.

Do all of that sound close to home?

Do you feel that the strong family ties you used to have are slowly being eroded by personal commitments, needs and wants?

Don’t worry, it’s not too late to change things back to what they were.

In this article, we will go through three talking points on building healthy family relationships that can help you, and your children, withstand the demands of the modern society we live in.

Let’s delve into it! [Read more…]

Gifts For Sleep Deprived Moms: Practical Holiday Gifts Husbands Should Buy For Their Wives!

Gifts for sleep deprived moms

Coping with sleep deprivation is something all new parents go through. Some embrace it as part of their new reality, while others find difficulty in dealing with it – seeing it as an addition to their already stressed filled lives.

And though both parents cannot escape this, nursing mothers are more susceptible to sleep loss as they need to breastfeed their child every couple of hours or so. And this can take a toll on their work, and their well-being.

So if you’re one of those sleep deprived moms out there, then you might want to show this article to your partner. And for the husbands reading this, it’s time to take out your credit cards for the holidays gentlemen!

But before we get to the gist of this article, let’s first talk about why you need to invest in such gifts.

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