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10 Companies That Offer Work-From-Home Jobs

So you want to work from home. You’re interested in commuting 10 feet to work. You really want to work in your pajamas or sweatpants. Got it.

And for many people, the search for a remote, work-from-home, or virtual position begins and ends right there. They have no idea of where or how to start looking for a job that will offer flexible work.

I’ve been there. And I’ve been able to find and network with a connected, remote workforce to help navigate the virtual rat race from home. [Read more…]

5 Food Allergy Blogs You Should Follow

I had so many questions when my baby girl was first diagnosed with food allergies.

This was my 2-year-old’s back during our first allergy test.

What do I do if she eats the wrong foods?  How do I keep other people from giving her the wrong foods? What are the signs that she may be going into anaphylaxis? Can we even afford an epipen?

And I did what most parents do, awake in the middle of the night with all of these questions in my head–I googled. [Read more…]

Mom is investigated for letting 8-year-old walk her dog alone

Just a few states offer a legal age restriction for children to be left alone.

Less than a handful of U.S. states offer legal age requirements for a child to be left alone unsupervised.

When is your child old enough to be left unsupervised?

That’s the question a lot of parents are asking after news reports this week of a neighbor who called police and child protective services on an Illinois mom who let her 8-year-old walk her dog alone. Police dismissed the complaint, after finding the child was not in any danger. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services also investigated the mother’s actions and found no wrongdoing.

It might be easy to shrug off a story like this as random, weird, or a Midwestern anomaly. But it does raise the question: When is your child old enough to be home alone or go outside without your supervision? [Read more…]

After twins, Beyonce embraces her “mama pouch”

If you’ve ever felt self-conscious about your post-baby body, then Vogue’s September cover story featuring Beyonce may offer some encouragement and camaraderie with the pop star.

Vogue Cover Shoot September 2018

Beyonce says she didn’t wear any wigs and very little makeup for the Vogue shoot to encourage readers to love their natural beauty.

After giving birth to Blue Ivy in 2012, the pop star says she felt pressure to bounce back quickly, and she lost all of her baby weight in three months while breastfeeding. “Looking back, that was crazy,” she admits. [Read more…]

Soaking up Summertime

A summertime run through the playground.

A summertime run through the playground.

Growing up, summertime meant spending hours outside, playing on jungle gyms and with neighborhood friends, eating ice cold bomb pops and playing hide and seek behind oak trees, even though you could easily be seen.

And we HAD to play outside. There was no running back and forth inside, and there were real consequences “if you let them mosquitoes in my house!” And what kid could pay the electric bill because “y’all are going to let all my cold air out!”

We had to stay outside until nap time or dinner time. In sunshine and heat. All day.

It’s what child psychologists today call “unstructured playtime. ” To us, it was just childhood in the 1980s. [Read more…]