I am starting to get some more attention for my blog, My168hours.com, which is nice, but I can always use more traffic! Some recent headlines:

Yep, Parents Are Spending More Time With Their Kids: some new research documents that college-educated men and women are spending lots more time with their children than they did a few decades ago. Yet we keep telling this story that people are so starved for time that children are suffering. I think we should be celebrating the good news that this is not the case (or if it is the case, it was never better in some mythical Ozzie and Harriet time).

Research/Publicity Assistant Job Post: I’m hiring! And hoping to get this new person started in next week or two.

The Case Against InBox Zero: Dealing with all your emails can give you a dangerous sense of false accomplishment. Email is not your work. It is a tool to do your work. At your retirement dinner, no one is going to talk about your great email filing system. They’ll want to talk about what you’ve done.

Dr. Phil and Free Time: Dr. Phil recently did a show on new research claiming moms have 30-plus hours of free time per week. Many of the women on his show howled that they didn’t even have time to breathe…yet somehow they managed to find time to get into that studio audience. Hmm…

Adventures in School Lunch: School lunch saves parents time and money, and it’s not necessarily as unhealthy as people think. Could that packed lunch measure up to the government’s nutritional standards?