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WHEN YOUR BODY, MIND AND NERVES HAVE ENOUGH!
“Taking care of myself doesn’t mean me first, it means me too.” L.R. KNOST NERVES Working in a corporation where every week there’s a new project to be done so fucking quickly and the deadline kicks your butt again. When you hear every week that this is the last time we’ll work overtime and you stop believing it because you know it’s bullshit. There is also work waiting for you at home. Your children are waiting to be picked up from school. Do homework with your children and feed your children. Then, in such a drastically magical way, you no longer have a minute for yourself. You don’t have time…
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THE UGLY TRUTH ABOUT WORKING MOTHER’S SACRIFICE
“Be the kind of mom who makes other moms want to be on your team” I thought that after maternity, the beginnings were only difficult and that the lack of sleep and fatigue would quickly disappear. Unfortunately, after 6 months in a new job, it is just as difficult. Only my distance from silly texts about mothers who can’t keep up at work is much better. I am mentally stronger than in the first few weeks and I am already well organized. Also I am forgetful and always on the run. Below is my new job survival list: FIRST Prepare everyone at work for the fact that you have children,…
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MY NEW LOOK ON MOM RETURNING TO WORK AFTER MATERNITY.
I love being on teams with working mothers. They are the highest functioning messes I know.”-MARICAR SANTOS- When you read this, some of you will be outraged by my comments and others will laugh. I know, because more than once in the group of mothers, I have already presented my opinions on returning to work, benefits, and disadvantages. And just as each of us has a different approach to raising children, each of us struggles with the decision to return to work. I did not wait long and after 10 months, when maternity was over, I went to work with my first child and the same with the second. There…
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MEN’S ZONE AND THEIR LIFE STORIES
“Dad: He’s less dramatic than Mom, but harder to find him when we want something.” A few days ago I started to think about presenting the other side of parenting, about my other half, the father of my kids, about the role of Daddy in the family. Days passed quickly and the thought vanish between other topics. But one-day small conversation appears: “Did you check my last post?“ “Why? Is something about me.” Since it was not the first time I heard this response from my husband, and it was not the first time that he irritated me with this comment, I said: “You ask again why I am not…
