Thanksgiving and the New Home Economics
(cross-posted at lauravanderkam.com) This year I attempted to make my first big turkey dinner. The holiday meal has long been one of those womanly rites of …Read More
Category Archives: Parenting & Family
Sarah Palin’s 168 Hours
Like the rest of humanity, I watched Sarah Palin's appearance on Oprah on Monday. (I have a personal interest in her book... I had wanted …Read More
Productivity lessons from maternity leave
I have been trying to work a lighter schedule since Sam's birth on September 24. I'm feeding him every 3 hours during the day, plus …Read More
The Economics of Milk Delivery
Today, the Wall Street Journal's Cranky Consumer column tackled the growing industry of milk delivery. Actually a very old-fashioned industry, the milkman is staging a …Read More
The Take-Out Trap
Looking to get out of the house the other night (see the post about 168 hours and an infant), and not wishing to cook, I …Read More
168 Hours and an Infant
Life is a bit busier in my household these days as we welcomed little Samuel Dwight Conway on September 24. He was surprisingly big -- …Read More
Dealing with unexpected free time
One of the challenges of making the most of our "down time" is that we often don't know when, exactly, it's going to appear, or …Read More
A Day in the Life of a Power Mom
Amanda Steinberg, whose Daily Worth email recently featured one of my USA Today op-eds, has another post from a few days ago about how she …Read More
When work-life balance means working more
When I was writing a book on time management several years ago, I had dozens of people keep logs of their time. Paula, a Nashville …Read More
The Myth of the Overscheduled Child
I have an essay in the Wall Street Journal this morning called "The Myth of the Overscheduled Child." Just as adults do not work nearly as …Read More