Stay Connected:
facebook
twitter
rss
facebook
twitter
rss Working Mom Daily Bread
workmom blogs
Browse the topics @home and @work. Engage with leading bloggers who offer advice on family and career as well as share stories about our rich workmom experience. Share your comments.browse by
Recent Posts
Working Mom Daily Bread
Twitter: @Helen_Jonsen
I am a veteran journalist who has had the opportunity to cover stories for news on three continents, and be the interviewer or fly on the wall when business and political decisions are discussed or made. My kaleidoscope career from print to broadcasting to the web while raising a big family of four kids offers an interesting perspective on life. I hope you agree.
Let's engage in a conversation about life-work-family balance. Even with all my experience, I still struggle with that everyday!
Last week’s to-do list as it unfolded into this week after Labor Day:
Vacation almost over. Check.
Call big kids to prepare for hurricane. Check.
Drive home in rain. Check.
Finish organizing for storm. Check.
Loose power. Check. Read more...
There I was early in the morning at New York’s JFK airport getting ready to board a plane for the West Coast for American’s largest women’s bloggers conference BlogHer11 in San Diego when I caught the cover of Time magazine out of the corner of my eye. A blue ... Read more...
Every few years a study comes out that says, children do not benefit from having a working mother. Then another study contradicts it. One released this summer in the UK did just that.
With the official title “Maternal employment and child socio-emo ... Read more...
At some point in my life I was a soccer mom until my kids stop playing that sport. But I have never really been a soccer fan. It was a game I knew in passing when, as a young girl, my neighbor immigrated from Italy and a soccer game meant he and I and his litt ... Read more...
This is a serious post about taking your health seriously but it's also a post about how much fun I had as a guest judge on an NBC television series that promotes healthy living by pitting teams of contestants against each other like on The Great Race.
... Read more...
The headlines have been horrific recently with social media messes like those by Congressman Anthony Weiner who thought his anonymous messaging would stay anonymous! And this has companies crazy as well. How do they ask their employees to be brand ambassadors ... Read more...
When the kids are little and you feel like they are constantly hanging on, you believe you will never again be alone. Even sharing a bed with one adult seems like an impossibility! Or getting to use a bathroom without someone whining outside the door.
So it s ... Read more...
When you watch local news at night, it seems like there are lots of women in media but the truth is, there are fewer women at the top of the news ladder than you might realize and even fewer in other decision-making media roles. And that’s why it seemed to be a big ... Read more...
We live in a small town in the suburbs of New York. But even when we lived in a small but densely populated city, our family was involved in the Memorial Day Parade.
First it was my son marching as a Boy Scout, in his crisp uniform near the veterans, p ... Read more...
Sometimes I just can’t keep up with all the whacky parenting news out there or the stories about famous moms whose lives are in a state of flux. And sometimes, I hear the story go by and don’t really want to comment on them.
There were two this week: B ... Read more...
