Plate Spinning: Building a Business and Bringing Up Baby

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I am a full-time mother and freelance writer. I recently left my job as a teacher in order to start my own freelance communications business, which provides me with a more flexible schedule, and more time with my husband and daughter. I feel that being a working mother is sometimes a lot like plate spinning. You not only have to multi-task to manage parenting and professional responsibilities, you have to know when certain areas need more attention, and be willing to provide it. My blog is about help working parents find creative ways to find balance - whether it means taking time for your children, job, spouse or yourself. Visit my website at the-writers-desk.com.

Back-to-school is on everyone’s mind lately, and it has inevitably monopolized televisions, retail displays, and the nightly news. There’s something about seeing that first school supply commercial that still sends a chill up my spine. It’s a mix of the eighteen yea ... Read more...
Planning for a baby is an exciting time for moms-to-be, whether they are expecting their first child or transitioning to two or more. Yet making arrangements for maternity leave, and the subsequent return to work are often stressful, last-minute ordeals that can lea ... Read more...
Smartphones, social media, instant accessibility to anyone, anytime. Though once thought of as luxuries, these aspects of modern life have become ubiquitous to many adults. Yet this level of convenience has yet to fully find its way to the workplace. In the followin ... Read more...
The debate about digital or print media seems to be too much of an all-or-nothing battle to me. As a writer, I realize that I need to be prepared to work in both media, and this is fine by me. Actually, it’s better than fine – in many cases, it has doubled my job op ... Read more...
Conversations about work/life balance and “having it all” continue to dominate print and online media in the wake of a recent article in The Atlantic. Working mother and Mom Corps CEO Allison O’Kelly suggests searching for balance between work and life implies t ... Read more...
“Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” a recent Atlantic article by Anne-Marie Slaughter, is everywhere I turn lately, as are opinions, criticisms, ... Read more...
This morning’s Wall Street Journal featured an article about the effect anxiety has on our lives. The story described an anxi ... Read more...
This morning, the hot story everywhere I turned was about the American family’s drop in net worth. Data provided by the Federal Reserve shows that the median net worth (as in “assets minus liabilities”) in 2001 was 106,000 dollars. In 2010, it dropped to 77,000 doll ... Read more...
There are a lot of benefits to running your own business. As a freelance writer, I get to set my own hours, choose my own assignments and determine my pay rate. I’m also my own boss, and have no other employees to worry about. All in all, it’s pretty great. I ... Read more...
What are you going to do? Are you going to have a party? What are you going to get her? What should we get her? What day are you celebrating? I have been asked these (and other) questions repeatedly over the last month or so. They are all in reference to my d ... Read more...