Topic: working mom

First World Parenting Problems Are Still Parenting Problems

First World Parenting Problems Are Still Parenting Problems

I couldn’t help but feel personally attacked by Eve Vawter‘s piece on entrepreneur women and the empathy they don’t deserve when they dare find balancing their businesses and family difficult. I find myself in a very similar situation to Natalie Massenet, the founder of Net-a-Porter. Like Massenet, I have a new baby, a new business and a successful husband. Unlike Massenet, I also have a demanding 3-year-old. Also unlike Massenet, I don’t get to talk about this extremely difficult time in my life in retrospect. More »

(UPDATED) Someone Bust Out The World’s Tiniest Violin For Another Rich Woman Whining About ‘Having It All’

(UPDATED) Someone Bust Out The World's Tiniest Violin For Another Rich Woman Whining About 'Having It All'

Yes, being a working mom is hard no matter what your net worth is, but I think the blow can be cushioned a little by knowing you can afford to take a day off or simply afford to hire more employees or else buy yourself a nice little cheapo Alexander McQueen frock. While the rest of the working moms in the world celebrate by paying the water bill so they can take a hot shower, wheeeee! More »

Baby Blues: I Tried To Make Good Changes For My PPD & All I Got Was This Lousy Emotional Breakdown

Baby Blues: I Tried To Make Good Changes For My PPD & All I Got Was This Lousy Emotional Breakdown

Days later, serious shit went down between me and my husband. We determined we could no longer afford the beautiful house we’d been planning to build this summer. After an especially heated argument, I went so far as to look up the number for the Missouri suicide hotline because, goddammit, I didn’t know what I could be doing differently. More »

37 Things That Happen In The Day Of A Freelance Writing Toddler Mom

37 Things That Happen In The Day Of A Freelance Writing Toddler Mom

Stumble out of bed with one eye open. Locate middle of the night pee and do a mediocre job cleaning it up with a towel.

Beg your toddler to get dressed while making at least three more empty threats. Say “no you cannot wear your bathing suit to school” no less than 12 times and commence yoga breathing techniques.

Settle on an outfit that’s only sort of insane looking and tell yourself you don’t care what anyone thinks — your child is a creative genius. More »

13 Fun Facts I Learned About Sheryl Sandberg From Reading ‘Lean In’

13 Fun Facts I Learned About Sheryl Sandberg From Reading 'Lean In'
She literally pumped during conference calls
Mark Zuckerberg offered her a hug after a rough day
On a business flight with her kids, she discovered her daughter had lice
Google got pregnant lady parking because of her
She snuck out of the office early after her son was born

Lean In is a lot of things, but one thing it is definitely not is boring. Sheryl Sandberg‘s book on that pesky terminology of “work life balance,” she admits, is not really a memoir. She explicitly specifies that it’s not really “a self-help book,” or “a book on career management.” Although she is comfortable with the descriptive “sort of feminist manifesto.” Frankly, Lean In is a hybrid of all the aforementioned labels, and the personal anecdotes of Sheryl’s own rise to the top of Silicon Valley perform as the perfect punctuation between some rousing lady career advice.

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All This ‘Queen Bee’ Talk About Competitive Working Women Is Outdated, Sexist, And Not Helping Anyone

All This 'Queen Bee' Talk About Competitive Working Women Is Outdated, Sexist, And Not Helping Anyone

Here at Mommyish, we’ve always been a tad skeptical about women vs. women studies that paint females out to be constantly combative to one another over their life choices or place in corporate and social hierarchies. Whether it’s childfree vs. mothers, SAHM vs. working woman, or Millennial girls vs. baby-boomer ladies, we always take these studies on woman to woman relationships with a big grain of salt. And an acknowledgement that these battles are often bad for both sides.

With that in mind, let’s talk about the recent Wall Street Journal piece, “The Tyranny of the Queen Bee.” More »

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