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They Say: Daycare Makes Friends For Mum
Stop hanging your daycare-loving head in shame, mum. A new study says what’s good for our sanity (and our paychecks) is also good for our circle of friends. Researchers at the University of Chicago found that mums who put their kids in daycare were likely to have at least one more “good friend” than mums going it alone. But...
First Person
All Hail The Breadwinner
I never realised how hard working dads have it until I was forced to confront my wife about her performance in the traditionally male role of the breadwinning parent. On a recent evening, after the kids had gone to bed, I hunkered down for a long painful conversation with Karel, my wife of seven years, about the quality of time she was spending...
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Do Successful Working Mums Get Judged More?
In her most recent piece, “Insult and Injury,” NY Times columnist Judith Warner writes of what she calls the “petty humiliations of motherhood” — when outsiders take it upon themselves to call out a mother on what they perceive to be less than optimal mum behaviour. One mum gets scolded for not reading the school handbook. Another, the...
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Demeaning Term of the Day: ‘Cuddle Count’
Working mothers, do you feel guilty that you don't love your kid enough? Well you can sleep a little easier tonight knowing the results of a new study: it turns out there is very little difference between how much time the babies of full-time working mothers are held, cuddled, read to and talked to compared with babies of mothers who do not work....
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Babble Wrap: Cuddle Count Eases Angst Of Working Mums
Working mothers can shed some of their "mother guilt", after a new study found their babies received just as much time being nurtured as the babies of stay-at-home mums. The Australian Michael Jackson's Mother Awarded Temporary Custody Of His Children Michael Jackson's mother was yesterday awarded temporary custody of his three children as the...
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Working Mothers Penalised in the Workplace
Quick, hide the kids! If your boss knows you’re a working mum, you’re likely to be making less than your non-mom counterparts. A LOT less. A new U.S. study found the wage disparity between mothers and non-breeders could be as much as $US11,000 for the same position (per year). Providing fake resumes to employers for two women - one with kids...
Infant
Returning To Work
THE BABBLE TAKE Few parenting issues involve as much culturally inflicted guilt as when and how (and in some circles, if) a mother should return to work, with much anxiety surrounding the topic. Politics aside, working is a necessity as well as a desire for most mothers, and their babies tend to be none the worse for it. Some say mothers who'v...
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Writing Is Working – I Promise
At a time when newspapers across the country are going out of business or laying off writers, I took a long hard look at Mama Bee's rant against the writing mums who dare consider themselves experts on working motherhood... and screamed. At its heart, I think I understand what she was trying to say - that there is no cookie cutter solution for...
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Are Working Mothers (And Fathers) Discriminated Against?
We all know the myth of the Superwoman is just that, but where does that leave the normal mom who also needs (and often wants) to work for pay outside the house? In a tragic bind, according to a recent post to the New York Times Economix blog. Women who attempt to balance working with motherhood nearly always pay a significant penalty at the workpl...
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