A Secret to Success as a Working Mom: Use Dresses to Stay Cool and Stylish in Hot Weather

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Greetings from Chaton's World in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! My days often start with laundry, early-morning emails, and making my kids a hot breakfast. They often end with late-night homework checks, making Instagram reels, and appearing on Celebrity Court of Public Opinion. Somewhere in between, I’m navigating boardrooms, working towards deadlines, and immersed in the good, bad, and ugly chaos of motherhood and household management. As a working mom of three and a professional carving out space in corporate environments, I share my journey of balancing leadership with loving my family, and I sprinkle it with self-care tips. Here, you’ll find honest reflections, hard-earned lessons, and practical strategies for creating an authentic life that you enjoy. If you’re trying to do it all without losing yourself in the process, you have found your sister in the struggle!  Continue reading to discover some thoughts, hacks, and/or lessons that I have learned from navigating my world.
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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?”
Strawberries
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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