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Work from Home Jobs for Mom

Work from Home Jobs: Tips & Opportunities

by Sara Sutton Fell, CEO of FlexJobs

Now more than ever, professional jobs are hiring that moms can do from home! Positions run across the board, including everything from administrative assistants all the way on up to CEOs. The fact of the matter is that allowing the option to work from home actually saves companies money, from overhead to real estate, but also from less employee turn over! Working from home does take discipline but removing the time it takes to drive to work during traffic hours alone saves several hours a week. With more and more small to large companies (IBM, AT&T, United Health Group, Cisco, etc.) jumping on board, the big question remains – how do you find the positions?

Don’t just ignore your troubled teen!

Keep talking to your troubled teen about their behavior — Don’t give up!

by Darlene McKenna, author of The Change

Is your teenage daughter or son just going through the normal stuff, or is it more? Do they listen to you when they do something wrong, or do they simply repeat the bad behavior? Are they staying out all night or not even coming home? Do you even know where they are? As a parent, do you find yourself tired and sick of all the battles? Have you just had enough and do you find yourself ignoring your troubled teenager?

As a former troubled teen, I would like to share some insight on this question. I became difficult and I never listened to my mom. It started with small stuff, like getting into fights and stealing things from her. Before you knew it, I was out all night around a fire pit drinking. Even the kids that I was hanging out with would say, “Darlene, you fell flat on your face last night. Maybe you shouldn’t drink as much tonight.” I didn’t care, and I would just go get another beer.

Why was I drinking so much? I was listening to a negative voice in my head that I now refer to as the “bad guy.” The bad guy would begin to whisper things in my head, like “Why are you such a loser? Everyone has a boyfriend, except for you. No one likes you. Everyone is prettier than you.” I was tough and I tried to ignore the voice. My goal was to be cool and I knew I needed a boyfriend!

Raising Emotionally Healthy Children: Feeling Important

Why Kids Needs to Feel Important

Second in a Series of Articles on Raising Emotionally Healthy Children

Guest Post from The Children’s Project

Read the first article in this series: Respect

Another critical emotional need of children is to feel important. Feeling important refers to a child’s need to feel: “I have value. I am useful. I have power. I am somebody.” The following are examples of how parents obstruct or enhance a child’s need to feel Important.

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs – Giving Away 8 SETS OF TICKETS!

The Big Bad Wolf finally gets to tell his side of the story & YOU get to choose the ending!

Presented by Dallas Children’s Theater in association with
AT&T Performing Arts Center

The Associated Piggy Press announces a coast-to-coast national tour in the name of slops…and justice!

Dallas Children’s Theater presents the real story of the Big, Bad Wolf in The True Story of the The 3 Little Pigs! touring throughout the United States from September 2012 through June 2013.

Need Lunch Box Ideas? Tips for Fast, Fun, Healthy Lunch-to-Go

Brown Bag Lunch Ideas

It was a tragic lesson in the risks of consuming a fast-food, sugary diet….

Dr. Mona Meighan’s normally punctual 26-year-old son, Luke, did not show up for work one morning in 2009. A concerned co-worker stopped by Luke’s apartment and found the young man dead in his bed. An autopsy determined he died from complications of undiagnosed diabetes.

“For seven years, through college and into his work life, Luke lived on pizza and fast foods, sodas and sweet desserts,” says Meighan, an education consultant and author of What Are You Doing for Lunch?: A Friendly Guide to Brown Bagging as a Better Way to Lunch (www.whatareyoudoingforlunch.com).

“Since we have no diabetes in our family, I can only believe Luke’s diet contributed to his death. Too often, young people aren’t aware of how food affects their health. As an educator, I thought the best way to remember Luke was to give people the tools to change their lunch habits. By brown-bagging, you can avoid a lot of processed foods loaded with calories and carbohydrates. It’s healthier – and less expensive!”

7 Ways to Raise a Good Listener

7 Tips on How to Make Kids Listen

Ask moms how to raise a good listener, and you’ll be met with a variety of responses. Some, like Eva Gavin, will laugh out loud and say, “If you write about kids who ignore their parents all the time, I’m your woman.” Others may tell you they have it all together and that their children always listen to them and do everything they say (don’t trust these women!).

So many of us are at a loss when it comes to teaching listening skills. Parents are busier than ever, and that can sometimes make it difficult to just stop and listen to our children. Yet making sure you raise your child to be a good listener is crucial for many reasons. For example, he needs to be able to follow directions at school, in college and at a job. He also needs the practiced skill of listening to make and keep friends, snag a spouse and deal with a variety of people in everyday life.

So how do you become one of those moms whose children don’t tune her out?

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