Here is an open letter to all the parents, aunts and uncles who write to me asking for advice about the twentysomething in their life who is an incorrigible underachiever:
Lighten up! No one should be labeled an underachiever in their twenties! The first thing you should ask yourself is whose standards are you using? This [...]
Browsing category "Parenting"Stop worrying that your twentysomething is lost
Posted to: Knowing yourself | Parenting
November 15th, 2007
Yahoo column: What to teach kids so they'll do well at work
Posted to: Parenting
October 18th, 2007
The skills that help us most in life are not the skills we learn from homework. In fact, Time magazine reports that homework is wasting kids' time on a number of levels, and in his book "The Homework Myth," Alfie Kohn rails against the massive amount of family time that's lost to homework. Finally, Harris Cooper, who studies [...] Business schools shift to accommodate the biological clock
September 26th, 2007
Harvard just announced that it will change the timeline of business school enrollment as a way to attract "a wider range of applicants" Read: Women. Right now women start businesses at two times the rate of men and women do better in school than men do, but women make up less than one-third of the [...] Interview with Sallie Krawcheck, CEO of Citigroup’s Global Wealth Management
September 21st, 2007
I loved listeing to this interview with Sallie Krawcheck so much. I have been following Sallie's career for years, and I had no idea I was going to see her in person until I showed up for the Forbes Executive Women's Forum for a speaking engagement, and there she was, speaking right before I did. [...] Gen X updates outdated work and family goals
Posted to: Parenting
September 6th, 2007
Every generation revolutionizes something, and Generation X is revolutionizing the intersection of family and work. There's a new emphasis on keeping families together over career aspirations, and it's what makes me most proud to be a part of Gen X. My own marriage and the myth of the stay-at-home dad
July 20th, 2007
For those of you who don't know what's going on in my marriage, please read My First Day of Marriage Counseling, and maybe you will want to leave a comment about how if you were my husband, you'd divorce me for blogging about my marriage. Travel tip for parents: Dance in your hotel room
June 27th, 2007
I went to Tampa this past week. I've been traveling a lot to promote my book. The first time I left the kids to promote the book, last month, my five-year-old said, "No! You can't go! Why do you have to go?" Twentysomething: Young workers are impatient with good reason
June 26th, 2007
By Ryan Healy – I have read that my generation grew up with constant change and amazing new technologies like cell phones and the Internet which caused us to not appreciate patience and experience. Hold CEOs accountable for their bad parenting
Posted to: Leadership | Parenting
June 20th, 2007
Recently, Wellpoint dismissed its CFO, David Colby. Wellpoint cites personal reasons. The LA Times tells us that it's the numerous mistresses he was leading supposedly exclusive relationships with. The problem here is not that executives cheat on their wives. They do it all the time. What we can take from the Wellpoint dismissal is that [...] Blending my kids and my career (ugh)
Posted to: Parenting
June 7th, 2007
Here's what it looks like to have a flexible schedule for kids and work all day: A computer with a broken K key. Coachology: Finally, the men place high value on personal life. Get on the bandwagon
May 18th, 2007
The biggest difference between the workplace today and the workplace twenty years ago is where the friction is. It used to be that the frontier of workplace change was feminism. Today it is time. Yahoo column: The worst career advice parents give their kids
Posted to: College students | Parenting
May 17th, 2007
For many young people today, the most trusted source of career advice is their parents. Unfortunately, a lot of parents are giving a lot of misguided advice to their kids. New agenda for workplace activism: Keep marriages together
May 14th, 2007
The topic of should women work or should they stay home is a baby boomer fetish topic, with Leslie Bennetts being the current poster girl. Helicopter parents challenge our assumptions about rank and class
May 8th, 2007
I loved Ryan's post about helicopter parents because, like many changes generation Y brings to the workplace, helicopter parents force me to see how much the dynamics of the workplace have changed and how what's appropriate at work today is different than what was appropriate only two or three years ago. Twentysomething: In praise of the helicopter parent
May 8th, 2007
By Ryan Healy — Recently, I have seen a slew of articles about helicopter parents. Parents of millennials are becoming very involved in the job search process. These parents feel they have the right to call their child's company to discuss benefits and relocation packages and even negotiate salary. I think this [...] Happy Passover from my blended life
Posted to: Career fulfillment | Parenting
April 3rd, 2007
Yesterday Ryan posted about creating a blended life. His post makes me think a lot about my own set up. I am pretty sure people would say I have a blended life: CEOs can learn from job hoppers about personal responsibility
Posted to: Leadership | Parenting
March 26th, 2007
Climbing to the top of corporate America requires near complete abnegation of one's personal life, not in a sacrificial way, but in a child-like way. In most cases, when there are children, there is a wife at home taking care of the executive's life in the same way she takes care of the children's lives. Don't tell me about admirable moms
Posted to: Parenting
March 1st, 2007
A couple of months ago, two people sent me the same thing: A womens' magazine was looking to interview a woman who was doing a good job balancing kids and a freelance career. My study of the six-figure pom-pom girl
January 25th, 2007
Most of my girlfriends who make more than $100K a year were cheerleaders in school. We are from all over the United States. We are from all different types of companies. Only a few of us can do the splits. Yet we all bounced in short skirts and cheered for boys. Babysitter drama in the opt-out arena
Posted to: Parenting
December 18th, 2006
I moved to Madison without knowing anyone here. So I found a babysitter through the University of Wisconsin graduate program in early education. The woman I found was great. But she said that she was really busy, and could her boyfriend babysit instead. |
You can't be a debt snob and be entrepreneurial. Almost all startups are founded on credit cards or money from parents. http://bit.ly/d3Hruw 2 days ago
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