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Straight-talk advice on marriage, parenting, work and the everyday crossroads of life. From a longtime wife, mom, and marketing VP who’s been there. Welcome.

Category: Parenting

  • Trying to write with a broken pencil is pointless. The 8 y.o. (who made her first unintentional pun)

  • Menu Plan for Week of 12/5/10 to 12/11/10

    Sunday 12/5/10 Fast Sunday* B/ Cereal and Sliced Oranges L/ Kid-Friendly Shepherd’s Pie, Dinner Rolls S/ Cinnamon Toast and Milk D/  Roasted Butternut Squash and Carmelized Onion Pie, Easy Split…

  • On Digital Natives

    The 4 y.o.: Mom, can you rewind the DVD so I can watch it again from the beginning? The 12 y.o.: You can’t rewind a DVD. Anyway, it’s streaming video…

  • 7 Ways to Inspire Employee Engagement

    And for fellow leaders everywhere, I offer these seven fast, easy tips — inspired by Kahler Slater’s seven core values and practiced throughout our firm — for “besting” your own…

  • Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders? HBS

    How do we close the gap between theory and results in selecting leaders? In discussing why our achievements in selecting leaders are less than stellar, contributors offered a rich set…

  • Collaboration is the New Competition – The Fearless Blog

    “I’m Alex Bogusky at FearLessRevolution.com. We like to think of ourselves over here as insurgents in the new consumer revolution. I guess, in the simplest terms I’ve gone from working…

  • Do tweets change your behavior? via CNN.com

    Fans of new media say Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites are changing the world. They point to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, the 2009 demonstrations in Iran…

  • On Service

    The 12 y.o.: Ok, I asked Dad to make the hot chocolate. He said he’d do it in a minute. He’s busy. The Mom: Well, could YOU make the hot…

  • On Getting What You Want

    The 4 y.o.: Thanks for the apple, Daddy. Oh wait – can you cut off the skin? The Dad: What’s the magic word? The 4 y.o.: Now. The Dad: How…

  • Today is the Zeroith of December! The 8 y.o. on Nov 30th

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