You’ve assembled a crack team for your kids — now see how much your kids can help you. — Part six in a six-part series, Creative Parenting for the Working Mom, from Reinventing the Working Mom® Welcome to the sixth and final installment of Creative Parenting for the Working Mom, a series full of helpful suggestions aimed at showing professional women how they can balance career and motherhood. How…

The perfect partner makes all the difference — even when they’re not perfect — Part five in a six-part series, Creative Parenting for the Working Mom, from Reinventing the Working Mom® Tonight, my husband came home exhausted and dragging from a hard day at work. He dropped off his briefcase — which in his case is a backpack — and went straight into the…

Here’s how to build your own personal support team for yourself and your child. — Part four in a six-part series, Creative Parenting for the Working Mom, from Reinventing the Working Mom® Teamwork. That’s the key to being a working mom. Most of the world still depends on an extended family to raise children; in fact, some areas still turn out in droves to raise…

When starting a family, you may find equal fulfillment in a less demanding career. — Part three in a six-part series, Creative Parenting for the Working Mom, from Reinventing the Working Mom® Flashback: 1987, the film Baby Boom, starring Diane Keaton. A Manhattanite advertising executive nicknamed the “Tiger Lady” inherits a baby, is pushed out of her job, buys a farm in Vermont, and founds…

These days, working moms have career options and considerations our mothers only dreamed of. — Part two in a six-part series, Creative Parenting for the Working Mom, from Reinventing the Working Mom® Pick the right job? Sounds silly, right? After all, your career is your career. But it’s no secret that some jobs are more family friendly. You may continue your upward trajectory in the…

Think you can’t manage career and children? Think again. — Part one in a six-part series, Creative Parenting for the Working Mom, from Reinventing the Working Mom® Having it all. It’s become a catchall, a cliché. It’s a criticism (“She left the meeting early; I guess that’s what they mean by ‘having it all.’”) It’s well-meaning, if patronizing advice. (“Just…

A letter to my nine-year-old as he returns to school and faces life again — Dear Matthew, You were the child I was so determined to have that at forty I became a single mother by choice. For the past nine years, you have shown me every day how smart that decision was. You’ve gone from having me all to yourself to being a wonderful…

3 Tips to Start You on Your New Financial Journey…Anyone Can Do It — Money. We all need it. We never seem to have enough. And most of us wish we had started saving earlier. But money is nothing more than a tool that can work for or against you, lifting you to great heights or miring you in misery. …

In forgiving my mother, I learned life’s greatest lesson — A daughter resenting her mother? Not exactly new. To me, my mother was a prisoner of traditional Chinese culture, valuing her sons over her daughters. A Chinese boy is the family pride; a Chinese girl is the family support. I was five when my family was smuggled into New York…