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Oops! I Was Wrong About Nannies (opens the original)
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Before becoming a mother, I often caught myself daydreaming about being both a devoted, present mother at the same time as being some sort of fiercely successful CEO. In most of these daydreams, there is an elusive Nanny in the background helping me “do it all”. I am a visual daydreamer, in that I seem to conjure movie-like scenes that play out in my mind as clear as a memory or present reality itself – and yet when I reflect back on these daydreams, the image and role of the Nanny were rarely v
Did you make any money last week? (opens the original)
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A few Tuesdays ago, I was in the kitchen cleaning up from dinner while my toddler happily played in her play space. This space, next to the kitchen, is an area intended by most designers (and adults) to be used as the dining room. However, given it’s just us two – my daughter and I – I recently decided that we didn’t need so much space dedicated to a dining table when it could instead house most of her toys. So I pushed the dining table against a free wall, moved her toys into the room in their
Ambitious Mother with Dr. Anne Welsh (opens the original)
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I first came across ’s work over on LinkedIn last July. I was slowly trying to dip my toe back into “professional networking” after choosing not to return to my full-time role in venture capital following maternity leave. Battling through the “LinkedIn Scaries”, I stumbled across a post of Anne’s and was immediately comforted by her extensive knowledge – from her work as a psychologist with a doctorate in counseling psychology and executiv
"Til the landslide brought me down" (opens the original)
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“But time makes you bolder… Even children get older… And I’m getting older, too…” I sing to my daughter in bed. Her head, and somehow the rest of her long toddler body, is resting on my chest as she finally starts to slow down. I can’t see her face, but her breathing tells me her eyes are getting heavy, as each breath slows and her chitter-chatter of stories slows, too. “Zog is a DRAGON, and Princess Pearl is a doctor… But where is Tabby McTat going?”As I continue singing the lines as a last-dit
#06 How Mothers Work: Natalie A. Bruzon and Carly Fredericka (opens the original)
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In this edition of How Mothers Work, we meet and – two American mothers, each navigating paid freelance work with the unpaid work of mothering. Natalie is a freelance writer and digital communicator based in a small town in Northern California, where she lives with her husband and two sons, Luka (2) and Marco (11 months old). She is the daughter of Cuban immigrants and grew up in what she describes as a “very Cuban home in Florida” until she was 12 – after which, she spent her teen years in Sout
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