Category Archive for: ‘Children’

• Having It All: Man, Child, Dog And The Picket Fence! Part 1

  How many times have we thought about this?  Self imposed (sometimes socially) time lines on motherhood, career, education and marriage? I’ve always believed that women can have it all.  Still do, just in staggered moderation.  Lately, I have to admit though, going through my own [...]

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• Taking The First Steps Towards Motherhood

  My husband and I had a good talk tonight about what the next stage in our lives should be.  Since completing my graduate studies I love not having to study for a test, write a paper or get together for a group project on the [...]

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• Tough Times: Parents Ditching Daycare

  photo credit: Axel Bührmann The Issue: More children left home alone to fend for themselves by working parents too strapped to afford child care. This article was written a few months ago but it speaks to some of the concerns I have as we think [...]

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• Working Outside Of The Home vs. Childcare Costs

  photo credit: Thomas Rockstar Would you work outside of your home if your childcare costs you $3000 a month? Tawnya, a reader, just submitted the following comment about Stay At Home Wives Being The New Status Symbol: Women are generally super-critical of our own sex. [...]

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  Waiting To Have A Baby Because Of Finances

  Our parents had children in their teens and early twenties, now women are having children in their early thirties to late forties.  Some might ask what are the pros and cons of such a decision.  Why are women choosing to have children later on in [...]

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