Choosing a different focus each month — marriage, parenthood, work and so on — Rubin makes resolutions like "fight right" and "tackle a nagging task".
By contrast, more recent drawings tend to confront, often very precisely, the humdrum trials of ordinary Americans coping with parenthood, work and growing old.
Compared to the previous survey, SOLAR II collected additional information on family status, parenthood, work-related stress, hand eczema, and exposure to cleaning sprays, disinfectants, fumes, and gas.
These results were obtained after considering the effect on the parent and child outcomes of two socio-demographic factors that showed differences among the groups under study: single parenthood and working at home.
Alternatively, mothers' ability to cope with parenthood and work get better by increasing age and maturity.
Rather, they're an inevitable consequence of family-friendly policies that take sides in the mommy wars, subsidizing working parenthood rather than just supporting parenthood, full stop.
Spending just 30 minutes a week on our to-do list, schedule and brainstorming bigger decisions really helped us take control of the chaos that is working parenthood.
She left in 2009 in an attempt to get her life back: her efforts to do so became the basis of a book on working parenthood, Half A Wife.
And yes — absolutely — our culture is desperately unsupportive of working parenthood in a way that robs us of choices and time.
For my part, I slept four hours total last night, spilled coffee on my boss's desk this morning, and was late to pick my daughter up from daycare at the end of the day because I was writing about working parenthood.
But despite a freshman season that featured at least three major shifts in direction, it still managed to be a warm-hearted, frequently funny series about a young couple (Christina Applegate and Will Arnett) dealing with the trials and tribulations of parenthood, with a working mom and a stay-at-home dad to offer a fresh perspective on a familiar concept.
