Working Mother back issues from February 2006:
Memories of Michael
Feb 01, 2006; ... When our daughters, Jess and Susannah, were little, my husband, Michael, and I often vacationed with them and members of our extended family at a rustic lakeside cabin. There were blueberries to eat, trails to hike and, best of all, little cousins for our kids to play with all day long. Michael ...
My Favorite Things
Feb 01, 2006; ... I love our love issue. I also love handmade Valentine's cards with backward lettering from a child just learning to write. I love Welsh corgis, who wag their little tails with the rhythmic tick of a metronome. I love when fresh snow clings to the needles on our Norwegian pines. I love long ...
You Said It
Feb 01, 2006; ... Unconditional Love I was so happy to see an article on adoption in the November issue ["Open Your Heart to Open Adoption"]. Even though open adoptions aren't all that common in Puerto Rico, some of us talk to our children about the circumstances surrounding their births. I'm so glad to ...
Massachusetts Mothers Make Beautiful Music
Feb 01, 2006; ... MOMS GROUP Forget about kazoos. Music for children can also be sophisticated and layered with the buzz of French horns and the echoes of cello strings. That's the idea behind Music Makers, a volunteer moms ensemble from Milton, MA, that performs locally for school groups. "There's an ...
Will Work for Charity
Feb 01, 2006; ... GOOD COMPANY Being a leader in aerospace engineering wasn't enough for Stellar Solutions, in Palo Alto, CA. Local charities, schools and other nonprofits have all benefited from the good will of Stellar Solutions' 80 plus employees. Staffers are able to pledge company dollars to their ...
Good News
Feb 01, 2006; ... New mothers are getting more help from family-friendly laws and businesses-and they're heading back to work sooner. Nearly seven out of ten women are now on the job within a year, almost ...
Uncovering the Leader Inside
Feb 01, 2006; ... DIVERSITY AT WORK Leading a church choir doesn't warrant mention on most resumes. And that's too bad, particularly for women of color, says a new study titled Leadership in Your Midst. Minority professionals tend to be more engaged with their community than white professionals, ...
Gotta Say
Feb 01, 2006; ... Vonetta Flowers of the U.S. bobsled team is already an Olympic gold medalist. Now this mother of 3-year-old twins hopes to join even more rarified company-we call them Medal Moms-by competing in the 2006 games in Torino. The great Wilma Rudolph jump-started things when she gave birth two years ...
Work Wise
Feb 01, 2006; ... How Totally Embarrassing Spill coffee on your blouse before a meeting? Or blurt out something inappropriate during a conference? Here's advice on how to handle those awkward moments from David Allyn, PhD, author of I Can't Believe I Just Did That Reveal your mistake. Being ...
Casting Call for Moms-to-Be
Feb 01, 2006; ... REACH OUT The artwork at the Mission Neighborhood Health Center in San Francisco sometimes draws curious looks. On display in the hallways are plaster casts of the bellies of clients, molded when they were eight months pregnant. "We want our women to have special memories of therr ...
Fun and Games With Kate
Feb 01, 2006; ... NEWSMAKER COFFEE BREAK After heartbreaking (and heart-pounding) turns in Finding Neverland and All the King's Men, the drama isn't over for 3O-year-old Kate Winslet. She's spot-on scheming in Little Children, a take ...
Must See Mom TV
Feb 01, 2006; ... OUR HERO The power of information-classic Dr. Spock-type advice plus dish on all the newest innovations and hippest trends-is the draw of Alpha Mom TV, a cable channel started by 34-year-old working mother Isabel Kallman (below, with son ...
A Little Help From Your Friends
Feb 01, 2006; ... BOSS LADY TIP Gali Rosen, 36, a mother of two and software programmer from Seattle, couldn't have achieved her dream of designing an educational program that teaches childbirthing and baby care without the help of her working-mom pals. Along with a doctor, a nurse and an editor, she ...
How She Does It
Feb 01, 2006; ... MARTHA RUIZ * 33, ACCOUNTANT, PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS, LOS ANGELES Martha Ruiz emerges confidently from the back of a long black limousine and places her sparkly, strappy sandals on the red carpet-the red carpet. Minutes later, Oprah is to her right, Glint Eastwood to her left. It's ...
Don't Let Stress Win Out
Feb 01, 2006; ... When life gets too fast-paced, chill out with these easy ways to a calmer and healthier you. Q I'm constantly juggling, which can be stressful. How can I relax more? A: For most of us, stress is a fact of life. In a recent national health study, 78 percent of women said that they ...
Scent-sational
Feb 01, 2006; ... Did you heap on a few pounds thanks to winter hibernation? Here's a sweet way to trim down: Slather your skin in sugary scents. One study found that the more we smell a favorite food scent during the day, the less we're likely to eat. "Ninety percent of taste is actually smell," says ...
Bra-vo!
Feb 01, 2006; ... This Valentine's Day, flirt shamelessly in a frothy confection of lace and silk. But before you hit the lingerie section, keep in mind that eight out of ten women are wearing the wrong bra size, says Beverly Hinkson, national fitting consultant forJCPenney. Your best bet is to get professionally ...
How We Met
Feb 01, 2006; ... Ah, love! It can start with a chance encounter at an airport or even surfing with a guy named Bubba. Here, from seven high-profile (and romantic) working moms, are real-life stories of their dates with destiny. NANCY O'DELL, COANCHOR OF /ACCESS HOLLYWOOD, AND KEITH ZUBCHEVICH * How she ...
Hot Camps for Cool Kids
Feb 01, 2006; ... Specialty camps help kids build skills. Here's how to get a hot summer deal. One morning last summer, 12-year-old Alison Shlom ran away and joined the circus. Well, she didn't exactly run away-she went to camp. At the French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts in Hancock, NY, Alison ...
To China, With Love
Feb 01, 2006; ... When legal assistant Rita Connelly went to Wuhan to adopt her daughter, she adopted a dream: her own agency to help wannabe parents follow in her footsteps. As told to Claire Whitcomb My mother always told me I could do anything I wanted, despite my disability. But it didn't sink in ...
Interviews Done Right
Feb 01, 2006; ... Q I know that the first few minutes of a job interview are critical. How can I shine from the start? A: Most job interviews have very definite stages, with the opening usually consisting of small talk and pleasantries. Go along with it, but remember, from the moment you introduce ...
SECRET HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL MOMS
Feb 01, 2006; ... We asked members of the Working Mother Smart Mom Council who work in the financial industry to share their best advice for managing the rigors of work and family. Here's how 267 say they do it: Pay your dues first, before you have children. There's less time to devote to work when there ...
follow the Leaders
Feb 01, 2006; ... Meet three dynamic moms in the financial industry. They are tops when it comes to achieving success-and defining it their own way. Talk about being torn between work and family! on the one hand, employment in the financial sector can mean brutally long hours and high pressure to perform ....
HIRING A HELPER?
Feb 01, 2006; ... News, Trends & Cool Tips If you plan to hire a caregiver, here's needto-know financial and legal info from Brette McWhorter Sember, a former attorney and author of Your Practical Pregnancy Planner. Get car coverage. If your caregiver is going to drive your car on a regular ...
Curb Those Cravings
Feb 01, 2006; ... Curb Those Cravings Next time you're stuck in a meeting or in traffic, munch on a Bellybar. These clever new nutrition bars for expecting and new moms are yummy but not too vitamin-y, which can trigger ...
RESORTS KIDS LOVE
Feb 01, 2006; ... WANT THE KIDS to have the time of their lives on vacation? We think you all deserve a relaxing, exhilarating, memorable getaway, where, yes, even the grown-ups have a blast. For this first of two travel features (read about cool learning vacations in our next issue), we scoured the country-and ...
Cool Cruising for Special-Needs Kids
Feb 01, 2006; ... Our special recommendation for a vacation that makes all kinds of families happy: Carnival Cruise Lines. That's because all of their ships accommodate children-and adults-who use wheelchairs or have other needs such as oxygen or dialysis. Plus, the ships' Camp Carnival kids', programs include a ...
Get in Touch, Baby
Feb 01, 2006; ... Did you know that when you bounce your baby on your knee you build his body confidence? It's true. All sorts of touch and movement, from cuddling to pumping little arms and legs, are good for babies. But research shows that it's the more active, stimulating touching that particularly encourages ...
Rub-a-Dub
Feb 01, 2006; ... A stimulating touch technique for babies that's really taken off in the United States is massage. "Babies' body parts have at least as many nerve endings as ours, which send messages to their highly receptive brains," says researcher Dr. Sandra Weiss. "So massage stimulation feeds brain ...
Body Confidence
Feb 01, 2006; ... When we hear middle and high schoolers express dissatisfaction with their bodies, it isn't a big surprise. But 2005 research out of Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, found that close to half of the girls studied wanted to be thinner by age 6 or 7, confirming what other worldwide ...
Gender Wise
Feb 01, 2006; ... You usually wear pants to work, but your 4-year-old daughter insists on wearing dresses all the time. Your husband loves to read and listen to music, but your son's fantasy play is all about sports and action heroes. It's surprising how easily little kids fall into stereotypical gender ...
One Family, Two Schedules
Feb 01, 2006; ... Q My husband and I work different shifts and have so little couple and family time. What can we do? A: It's not easy for working parents to always eat dinnerwith their kids and take them to the playground, much less find time to nurture their own relationship. Many partners today work on ...
The "P" Word
Feb 01, 2006; ... Puberty! You may still remember your own mood swings and physical changes that, well, freaked you out. But remember, too, that it was an exciting and important time of growth and coming-of-age. And now you can help your tween or teen navigate this phase and stay positive about her changing ...
Reader Tips
Feb 01, 2006; ... Go With the Family Flow Essentials like family dinner never change, whether Mommy or Daddy is at home or working. My husband and I do not divide up chores. If something needs doing, the one closest gets it done. Sometimes that means he does the dinner cishes and I take out the trash, or ...
Watch It
Feb 01, 2006; ... REPEAT PERFORMANCES Pip pip and cheerio! Turn your child on to the dynamic British claymation duo of Wallace & Gromit in the howlingly delightful The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. A beast of a bunny wreaks havoc by gobbling up all the prizewinning vegetables, and it's up to Wallace, a ...
Read It
Feb 01, 2006; ... Read It FOR MOMS Duchess of Nothing, by Heather McGowan (fiction). A woman leaves her husband and moves to Rome, only to discover her new man is just as boorish as her ex. She finds solace in her lover's little brother and the bond they form as they wander the Eternal City. Told ...
Kids, Cars and Caution
Feb 01, 2006; ... Senator Hillary Clinton recently introduced a pending bill to ensure that existing safety technology is implemented in new vehicles to make them safer for kids. Child-safety features now available include windows that reverse when they detect an obstruction, to prevent a child's being injured; ...
See It
Feb 01, 2006; ... Make a date with The Art of Andy Warhol. This traveling exhibition snaps and crackles with the pop artist's paintings of animals, tin toys and a who's who of Americana icons-including Uncle Sam ...
Ask Dr. Sears
Feb 01, 2006; ... Q I just returned to work after my maternity leave, and my baby is waking up several times a night to breastfeed. Can you help? A: Babies often undergo an instinctual reversal of night and day after Mom returns to work. They nap more and feed less during the day when she is gone, then ...
Is Organic Food Worth It?
Feb 01, 2006; ... More parents are buying organic when shopping for their children. In 2005, sales of organic baby food jumped nearly 16 percent over the year before, about double the growth of total organic food sales, according to ACNielsen research. But is paying a slightly higher price for organic (50 cents ...
Boo!
Feb 01, 2006; ... Boo! Almost two million children live in homes with guns despite repeated messages from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) that the best ...
Brush Before Kissing!
Feb 01, 2006; ... You make your child brush his teeth regularly and visit the dentist. But what about your teeth? "Parents can spread cavity-causing bacteria to their children by kissing or sharing utensils with them," says ...
Dear Diary
Feb 01, 2006; ... Taking your kids on business trips is all the rage these days. So when school vacation coincides with a mandatory visit to the Big Apple, I decide to test the trend. THURSDAY 8:17 a.m. I am on the plane headed from Los Angeles to New York seated between my sons, Brookes, 10, and ...
CORRECTION
Feb 01, 2006; ... In Family Wise, December/January, we inadvertently switched ...
What to do
Feb 01, 2006; ... For a stuffy nose How can you help clear your little one's nose? First, squirt some saline spray (or try nose drops for an infant) to loosen the mucus, says Jordan Josephson, MD, a sinus and nasal specialist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. If she's too young to blow her own nose, try a ...
Warm-ups
Feb 01, 2006; ... After a season of icy winds and soggy snow, finding comfort is a must Like a bolt of sun light after a blizzard, cashmere has the power to banish your foul-weather blues and carry you into spring. And now that quality cashmere is available in every price range, you can have your pick of varying ...
Snap happy
Feb 01, 2006; ... CAPTURING AND KEEPING DIGITAL MEMORIES The memory-making started the instant you met your mate. Since then, you've been responsible for the trail of snapshots that's chronicled your family's life. Whether you're a scrapbook junkie or a photos-in-a-shoebox kind of girl, being the curator ...
Comfy, Cozy Food
Feb 01, 2006; ... What spells comfort for your crew? Noodles, roast chicken or bread pudding? Susan Spungen dishes up these and other recipes for a cozy family night. Get out the hoard games and let the winter winds blow! Sunday Roast Chicken SERVES: 8, PREP TIME: 15 MINUTES, COOK TIME: 105 ...
Yay!
Feb 01, 2006; ... Yay! The amount of sugary sodas sold in U.S. schools declined 24 percent between 2002 and 2004. Many schools around the country have ...