Tag Archive: parenthood

The Moment I Realized My Tween Values Experiences Over Things


Why is this value important to me?

Who amongst us, contemplating parenting, hasn’t read an article or book (or 20) about raising kids with the right mindset?  For each parent, what “right” means is individualized, to be sure.  One thing I do find common amongst parents is the hope to raise a child who values experiences over material things.  All experiences – the easy ones, the hard ones (heard of … Read more


Startup Parenthood: Should you ask that question about parenthood?

Should you ask that question?

 

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There are a fair number of jokes and warnings out there about not asking certain kinds of questions, particularly around pregnancy.  There’s not asking a woman if she’s pregnant.  There’s also caution about saying whether the woman is pregnant, or the couple is (i.e. is the non-ankle-swelling, non-fatigued-as-I-don’t-know-what partner allowed to say that he/she is also pregnant when their partner is?).  There’s even my … Read more


Startup Parenthood: Throw Out the Hours Worked KPI

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Our March #StartupParenthood post on the RJMetrics blog was to be about how the flexible policies we have at RJ manifest in work hours for parents.  That post hasn’t been published yet, but regardless of its outcome, I wanted to reflect in this post on what work hours mean to me.  I have some pretty strong and perhaps egotistical feelings about measuring Hours Worked as a KPI, and it’s … Read more


Startup Parenthood: What does work-life flexibility look like for me?

 

A couple of weeks ago, I made my way into a couple of twenty-something female colleagues’ lunch outing.  When my analytics brain is going super fast all over the place, the best thing I can do sometimes is jump into someone else’s pool to get out of my own head.  But what followed was amazing fodder for this #StartupParenthood series.

Both are in that marriage-is-new phase.  One … Read more


Startup Parenthood: A Year in the Intersection of Startups and Parenthood

(Image credit goes to TheMuse.com)

There is an irony in the amount of scheduling and rescheduling it took to get this post written.  I have no more real example of #StartupParenthood than the past two weeks.  But more on that later…

This post is the first in a series this year wherein I will talk about what makes startups and parenthood work for me as a female executive at … Read more