One Secret to a Working Mom Success: Make Family Events More Enjoyable With Friends

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Better Together: Why Inviting Another Family Makes Activities More Fun #FamilyFun Sometimes family activities can feel like another item on the to-do list. However, doing those activities with another family makes them more fun! Whether it’s a trip to an amusement park , a visit to the local pool , or trip to a pumpkin patch , including another family can multiply the fun in amazing ways. One of my favorite moms to collaborate with is my friend, Ayana Ledford who's pictured above with her daughter Sahar. We have done all of the things listed as seemingly random examples above and here is how including her and her daughter (and sometimes her son too) has made the events more fun. On the date above, Ayana almost left the venue because parking was a nightmare. That said, she hung in there and we would up having a great time!
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Working Mom Tip: Eat Healthy

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Healthy Food
As working moms, despite our limited time, we strive to do a good job at work and at home is high. We recognize that we can’t do a good job unless we are healthy. And we also understand that we have failed our children if they are not healthy.



So, we strive to make healthy choices. That said, “healthy” can be a moving target. We accept certain truths to be self-evident.
Organic fruit and vegetables are good. Red food coloring is really bad and should be banned throughout the world! Drinking water is good. Drinking juice is completely unnecessary and should be treated like alcoholic beverages for children—they get it on special occasions only. It is not a staple!


(Don’t worry, if you’re a working mom who believes that every night is a special occasion and deserves to be recognized with red wine I won’t judge you. Just be sure to tweet a photo of your glass to me here so we can celebrate our ever so special Tuesday night together!!! J)

We are kept up at night by questions like, “Is whole milk better than skim milk?” “Should our babies eat solid food before six months?”  And, “what is quinoa and how the hell do you pronounce it?”
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Apparently, there is disagreement between what Americans believe is healthy and what nutritionists believe is healthy. Our friends at The New York Times did a story on it, called “Is Sushi Health? What About Granola? Where Americans and Nutritionists Disagree.”

Bonus:  You may want to pay close attention to the Times article because another writer has indicated that carrying around extra pounds can tank your career! For that article, click here. Quote from the article, “[i]n 2004,  the journal Health Economics reported that obesity could lower a woman's annual earnings by as much as 6.2% and a man's by as much as 2.3%”  

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