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Busy Moms and Dads! Use Your Smart Phone to Keep Up.

March 17, 2010 By Melanie Edwards 18 Comments

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If you’re a blogger and user of other social media applications, you know that it can sometimes be hard to keep up with everything. You’ve got blog posts to write, PR emails to answer, comments to keep up with, and a social media presence that needs to be constantly updated. Add all that to your […]

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Filed Under: Wahm, Working Mothers Tagged With: balance, Blogging, busy dads, busy life, busy moms, busy parents, dads, facebook, freelancer, increase productivity, life, linkedin, mobile phone, moms, productivity, smart phone, social media, social media maintenance, twitter, Wahm, Work, work at home, work life balance, Working Mothers

Does Work-Life Balance Exist?

March 3, 2010 By Melanie Edwards 11 Comments

Have you been thinking about what work-life balance means to you? Or even just balance in and of itself? Well, there are some people who think there is no such thing. The phrase work-life balance alone is contradictory in their eyes. I recently came across The myth of work/life balance, in which the author proposes […]

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Filed Under: Wahm, Work, Working Mothers Tagged With: #worklife, balance, life, Wahm, Work, work life balance, work-life, Working Mothers

How Young Children can Help with the Laundry

March 1, 2010 By Melanie Edwards 7 Comments

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Early last month, I posed the question, “Can Preschoolers Help Clean?” and provided a list of chores for preschoolers to do around the house. Many of you agreed that yes, preschoolers can indeed help clean around the house and even provided a few additional suggestions based on what your kids help with. One of the […]

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Filed Under: preschoolers, toddlers, Wahm Tagged With: balance, chores, home, house, housework, laundry, life, preschoolers, Sahm, toddlers, Wahm, work from home, work life balance, young children

How Do You Define Balance?

February 22, 2010 By Melanie Edwards 13 Comments

Scales in Balance

What does balance mean to you? Is it about balancing you as a person? Does it involve the people around you? Or is it about the roles you play in life? Let me elaborate a bit on what I mean. Balancing You Do you strive for your physical, mental, and spiritual health to be in-line? […]

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Filed Under: life, Work Tagged With: balance, helping others, life, me time, personal balance, Sahm, self, self balance, Wahm, Women, Work, work life balance

Kristi Yamaguchi on Being a Working Mom

February 17, 2010 By Melanie Edwards 5 Comments

Kristi Yamaguchi, US Olympic gold medalist, is featured in the February/March issue of Working Mother magazine. In her interview with Working Mother, Kristi Yamaguchi speaks on success, balancing her high-profile career and home, motherhood, and the lessons she’s learned. I thought it would be interesting to see how a celebrity mom handles work-life balance, especially […]

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