Category: Dealing With ‘The Walk of Shame’ at Work

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Many parents deal with the demands of work and family by scaling back at the office. For some it’s the best of both worlds: You get the intellectual benefits of the office plus a good amount of time for family. However, it’s still not easy for some to accept a reduced role.
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Recent data showed the U.S. economy lost 80,000 jobs in March, the biggest drop in five years. Obviously this is bad news for many families. But are some finding that working less — or not at all — isn’t so bad after all?
In a February WSJ article about big U.S. law firms bracing for […]

Last week, we talked about pain at the gas pump. One seemingly easy way to cut down on gas costs is to have your kids take the bus to school. As a reader wrote, “We have great school bus service . . . Why would I ever drive my kids?”
While my daughter is too young […]

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A reader pointed us to the recent article in the L.A. Times that looks at why kids cheat.
Cheating is nothing new, the article points out, but an arsenal of high-tech tools and the Internet has made it easier. For example, YouTube videos offer strategies such as designing a T-shirt with a cheat sheet printed […]

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Of all the events and duties we juggle, one that most parents make sure to catch is a childÂ’s school performance or special sports contest. After all, even the most ordinary class play or playoff game yields once-in-a-lifetime moments that would go unseen and uncelebrated in a parentÂ’s absence. But what if neither parent […]

The figure weighs heavily on me, variously swelling and contracting through the day but always seeming to end up bigger each evening: the number of emails clogging my inbox. As I write, I have 6,175 emails in my main inbox, 162 of them unread (and surely unneeded), and I continue to want to make time […]

Gas prices are Americans’ No. 1 economic concern, said New York Times reporter David Leonhardt this morning on NPR. Indeed, around our house, they do rank fairly high on our list and have prompted us to make some transport changes.
A few months ago, my husband was driving his car when he hit ice and, unfortunately, […]

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The NY Times had an interesting opinion piece this week, suggesting that belt-tightening during the economic downturn could have an upside: improved willpower.
I found the piece interesting because, let’s face it, the juggle can’t go ’round without a healthy dose of willpower each day. Some examples: The willpower to climb out […]

There’s an article in the most recent New York magazine about a series of events that have caused turmoil at one of the city’s — indeed, the country’s — most elite private high schools, Horace Mann. The latest there issue involves Facebook pages set up by students that viciously deride faculty and peers.
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In the constant calibration of work/family priorities, where should kids’ birthdays stand? Pretty darn high on the roster, some parents we’ve talked with here say.
The issue came into stark relief for me this week. I was on deck to edit a very interesting story — one that would surely keep me late given the time […]