Archive for the ‘Family Life’ Category
Personal Safety Awareness For Women
Have you ever felt frightened or intimidated when out walking alone? Have you ever wondered what you should do if approached by an attacker? Have you ever worried about becoming yet another home invasion statistic?
There is a growing trend in companies providing their employees with personal safety training in the workplace as part of their corporate social responsibilty and well-being initiatives for their staff. What a fantastic way for a company to show that it appreciates its staff and cares for their welfare. The course also provides a great opportunity for team building and boosting company morale.
Personal safety begins with awareness and taking responsibility for your safety. It is about knowing what to do before you find yourself in harm’s way or in a threatening situation. The good news is that the majority of attacks on women are preventable.
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Internet Safe Kids
As a parent in this digital age it’s your job to ensure your children learn safe surfing habits.
One day your child may surf the Net and find web pages designed specifically for kids and teens. The following day he or she may find web sites designed by pornographers, or criminals. The Internet allows anyone in the world to publish almost anything — and there’s no failsafe way to keep our children from viewing all of the offensive material out there. Keep your kids safe when they’re online with the following tips:
The Internet can be a wonderful resource for kids. They can use it to research school reports, communicate with teachers and other kids, and play interactive games. Kids who are old enough to punch in a few letters on the keyboard can literally access the world.
I will not give out personal information such as my address, telephone number, parents’ work address/telephone number, or the name and location of my school without my parents’ permission.
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How to Balance Your Career and Family
The biggest challenge many of us face is how to balance the demands of family, friends, and career. While we want happy and fulfilling lives outside of work, we have to make personal sacrifices in order to achieve our career aspirations. How do you balance those sacrifices so they don’t greatly interfere with your personal goals? How do you fit roles such as wife, mother, and friend into an already hectic schedule? Since time is precious, keeping a balance between the two worlds can be a challenge. Fortunately, with proper planning, balance is possible.
Set Your Family and Business Goals: I believe the first step to achieving anything important is to begin by identifying your goals. If you have not already done so, pull out a pad of paper and write down your career, marriage and family goals.
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Time Saving Tips For Working Moms
All moms are working moms, and all moms face the challenge of prioritizing how they spend their time. Time management becomes absolutely critical, though, for mothers who must devote 40 to 50 precious hours a week to a job. For women in such situations, it’s crucial to streamline and simplify pretty much every imaginable area of life.
The following tips may not solve every time-management challenge that confronts you, but hopefully they’ll help you think about ways to simplify and save time as you manage your own unique schedule and circumstances.
Preparation, Preparation, Preparation: Working moms should always be prepared for a worst case scenario, says Ms. Dunstan. If your child spills the last of the milk at breakfast, and all you have for breakfast in the house is cereal, be prepared by having powdered or canned milk in the cupboard for emergencies. The time you will spend grabbing breakfast at the drive thru will make your kids late for school, you’ll be late for work and your whole day will be thrown off.
Identify your time wasters: You climb out of bed ready to put a dent in your to-do list right after you check in on Facebook and Twitter and then google the name of that actress you couldn’t remember last night. And ooh!
Free shipping at your favorite clothing store and then you look up at the clock and realize you’ve wasted half a day surfing the internet. An easy way to find more free time is to identify where you’re wasting it and make an effort to steer clear of potential time sinkholes.
Outsource time consuming tasks: If you cannot afford to hire someone to help with cooking, cleaning or yard work, Ms. Dunstan suggests working moms tag team with friends or neighbors who can help. For example, you can hire the same cleaning person with your neighbor and get a discount for the two homes or hire a student to run errands, all of which frees you up to spend the extra time with your children.
Shop Online at Your Convenience: The internet is one of the most fabulous creations of our time because you can find almost anything you want or need 24/7, which is both a curse and a blessing. However, for after hours shopping when the kids are asleep it is fabulous. You can browse, cost compare and buy anything you want from the comfort of your own home often at significant discounts. This means no hassle, no lines, lots of deals, options and most importantly it does not cut into precious family time. One of my favorite online e-tailers is Zappos because they have an amazing selection of shoes and the most streamlined free shipping/return policy on the Net.
Don’t sacrifice sleep…ever: I recognize that as a mother uninterrupted sleep is the stuff of fairytales. Middle of the night feedings are non-negotiable, but how often do you find yourself delaying bedtime to perform menial household chores that can really wait for morning? Losing that extra hour can make an impact on the next day’s mood and productivity.
Home-Based Business Ideas For Moms
Work at home moms are super humans. As if managing the household is not hard enough, they add money-making endeavor into the equation. Despite the challenges, there are more and more moms choose to work at home. The appeal is there: they are able to spend more time with their children while figuring out on a work schedule that is flexible enough to accommodate the family time and household management.
If you have the time and a little bit of money, these home business ideas may provide you with an alternative for trying to find a work from home job – by making your own work at home position operating your own home business.
Tips For Working Moms Who Travel
Business trips are rough on kids. Yet they are an almost inevitable part of a professional woman’s career. Whether you travel often or just once in awhile, you, your kids and the caretaker left behind are put to the test as you head out for the airport.
There is a better way – for kids and their parents. Make your next trip easier on everyone, including you, by following these easy, no-tears tips…
Find the time: Most moms who have to head off to work everyday often find themselves getting up early, and coming home late. Finding the time to spend with your family is really one of the biggest challenges. Usually when moms arrive home from work they are focused on dinner, and getting the house in order. Instead of being so quick to get those things done, why not spend about thirty minutes talking with your children. Instead of talking while you cook, give them some face time.
The Best Apps For Moms
Moms are busy people, no ifs, ands or buts about it. They work, shuttle kids, clean up, manage finances and sometimes, if they’re lucky, try to find a little time for themselves. That’s why more and more moms are turning to smartphone, iPhone and iPad apps to help organize schedules, simplify lives and even provide a bit of entertainment, for both themselves and their children.
Life 360: Safety comes first. That is what brings this app to the top of the list. This is an amazing app that helps to keep track of your family members on a real time map and gives alerts about registered sex offenders who live around you. When you or your child is in need of help, forget about busy phone lines. You have to just contact Life 360 and their emergency messenger will send the message immediately to all family members.
Tips For Travelling With Kids
Planning your trip
If this is your first trip with your children, plan for a slower pace than you might usually attempt. If you want to see more than one place, be realistic about what you can cover with little ones in tow. The less you feel you have to pack in, the more enjoyable and stress-free the holiday – and you’ll be better able to take the odd day indoors in your stride if the weather is bad or the kids need to rest.
If you are traveling with another family, or adults, before you go, discuss what each person wants to do, agree how to split chores or take turns minding the children, and talk about the balance of spending time together and apart. Come to an agreement about the way you’ll split the bills (taking into account the smaller share of expenditures for the children).
Time Management Tips For Working Moms
Time management is a big concern for mothers these days. Between kids’ activities, household responsibilities and, for many, the demands of a stressful workplace, many mothers have given up on the fight to find time for themselves and are just trying to get everything done. The following time management tips can be used by busy moms everywhere to take some of the stress out of life, and create more time for fun times with children, quality time with their partner, or even that coveted and nearly forgotten alone time.
When do you feel MOST productive? Figure out what time of the day you get that burst of energy. Is it in the morning around 10am? Or maybe right after lunch? Or perhaps you are a night owl?
Tips For Working Mothers
Fulfilling the role of Mom while also holding down a job can be dizzying. But with a little planning and family cooperation, moms can make routine tasks easier, get family members involved and helping instead of asking for things, and reduce everyone’s stress level. Try these tips out.
Get a good planner
Having a plan is key, according to mom of two, Jennifer Williams and soon-to-be mom of two, Beth Anne Ballance. From making daily lists of meetings and tasks, to putting your husband’s and kids’ schedules in a shared online calendar, to planning out your meals for the week, having a plan where you can see it not only helps you stay organized, but it gives you an idea of when you’ll need to enlist some help.
