Let's put mommy guilt in its place.
The moms at Working Moms Against Guilt are thrilled to announce our first-ever live online event! Saturday, June 1, we’ll be hosting a Google Hangout with Christine Fonseca, author of THE GIRL GUIDE: FINDING YOUR PLACE IN A MIXED-UP WORLD. We’re calling our event the WMAG Mother/Daughter Book Club—Girls’ Night In! Moms, this is a [...]
This afternoon I made an appearance on KSBJ, a Christian radio station out of Texas. One of the hosts, Lisa Marie, found Working Moms Against Guilt while searching for resources to help with her own conflicted feelings. She invited us on-air, and I spent a few minutes chatting about WMAG and tips to deal with [...]
I don’t think this will shock you, but work-life needs are not just for women. So says a new series of studies from the Boston College Center for Work & Family in the Carroll School of Management. (Lauren Stiller Rikleen provides a nice overview of these studies’ findings over at the Harvard Business Review blog. If you’re [...]
Talk about first world problems. I was all set to write a light post about my daughters’ taste in pop music, but I just can’t get out of my head a tragedy that happened here this week. A mother was walking her three children to daycare at 4 a.m. so she could catch a bus [...]
I’ve spent the past year getting more and more disgusted with politics. First there was the whole debt ceiling debacle, where we got to watch our elected officials act like toddlers on a playground, incapable of working together. (Actually, most toddlers I know behave better.) Then we somehow entered a time warp, and suddenly the [...]
I started this post wanting to talk about the fact that I started a new job today. But I can’t focus on my joy. The story of Trayvon Martin is stuck in my head. Not because I am taking sides. Not because I know all of the facts. But because I am a single, white [...]
Apparently, people think because I started a blog called Working Moms Against Guilt, I must be some kind of expert on the topic. But really, any mom who’s had kids for a while could probably speak intelligently on the issue. We all face guilt. Some of us may deal with it in more productive or [...]
Hi, everybody – it’s Sara, the phantom Working Mom Against Guilt. I don’t post nearly as much as I’d like to because, well, I’m either working or being a mom. Most of the time I’m doing both. One of the things I love about my job is the exciting and rewarding projects I get to [...]
When the boss calls you at home, do you feel guilty? If the same thing happens to your husband, does he feel guilty? According to a new study, working moms are the ones who feel bad when work life intrudes on home life. Dads, not so much: “For women, levels of guilt and distress seem [...]
This? Is all my fault. Yet another study has come out pronouncing yet another harm we are doing to our children by working. This time, it’s that how long we work somehow leads to our kids having higher BMIs, according to this article in the journal Child Development. My response? One word: Ugh. OK, you [...]
