Work & Finance

  • Stay-at-Home Mom, Back-at-Work

    Stay-at-Home Mom, Back-at-Work

    Yippee! My days of being an ambivalent, mostly stay-at-home mom are over. I’ve landed my first full-time job in 13 years! I’m 47 years old and my sons are 13 and 15. Every morning I rise...

  • Why Always Blame the Working Mom?

    Why Always Blame the Working Mom?

    When I was 15, living in the suburbs, I sometimes babysat for a young couple who lived across the street in a towering garden-engulfed house made entirely of glistening British Columbia Redwood. The Mom was a...

  • Work and Family Balance

    Work and Family Balance

    With so many two income and single parent families these days, parents are finding it increasingly difficult to achieve a balance between work, family and personal time. Regrettably, working parents try so hard...

  • Shift Work Means: SHIFTing Gears

    Shift Work Means: SHIFTing Gears

    The phenomenon is growing. More parents are working. And more working parents are doing jobs where the hours are not just 9-5 each weekday. Where does that leave the children? Where does that leave the...

  • Juggling Work & Family

    Juggling Work & Family

    Feeling a little stressed? Struggling to keep all the balls in the air? You're in good company. According to the most recent stress-related data from Statistics Canada, 85 per cent of mothers who are employed...

  • Tax Tips

    Tax Tips

    If you still haven't done your tax return, remember you need to get it in the mail no later than April 30. But don't wait until the last minute to do your return. Leave yourself some breathing space before you...

  • Making It Work to Stay Home from Work

    Making It Work to Stay Home from Work

    I love my time with Josh (3) and Sam (9 months), but I miss talking with the people at work and using my mind in a different way. I don't really want to get a job, I just want some kind of change at...

  • Stay at Home Moms vs. Working Moms

    Stay at Home Moms vs. Working Moms

    Why does everyone feel this constant need to compare "Stay at Home Moms" with the so-called "Working Mom?" First, I take offence to the term, ‘working mom.' All Moms work and the work...

  • Money Smarts

    Money Smarts

    Children are a whole lot smarter today then when I was a child. Television, computers and the internet have allowed our kids to access information we never dreamed of when we were kids. Given our kids&rsquo...

  • Job Hunting Through the Ages

    Job Hunting Through the Ages

    Planning for a career certainly was simpler two million years ago. In the Stone Age, there were hunters (men) and there were gatherers (women) and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out where...




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