A peek at the Working Parent-o-Sphere:
- Amy at Work It: A Blog for Moms doesn’t want to scare her boss who is newly back to work from maternity leave.
- Job benefits are on Cindy Krischer Goodman’s mind at The Miami Herald’s The Work/Life Balancing Act.
- Karyn McCormack praises telecommuting in her first post at BusinessWeek’s Working Parents blog.
- At Work It, Mom! Nataly has brought up an interesting topic: Can you excel in your career and have work/life balance?
Let us know if you’ve run across some good working parent discussions out there!

I am fortunate to have a job that has paid sick and vacation days.
Before I had children, and, aging parents, I didn’t think much of the hours, they were there if I needed them, and, I accrued them at some rate or another, it didn’t really matter much.
But, then along came children, and, I had to use all of the vacation and sick hours for maternity leave, thus beginning the endless cycle of accruing them and using them all in the same motion.
My benefit hours balance was just recovering from having had my youngest child, when, my mother got sick, …read more