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Obsessing about work mistakes? These six strategies can help you put these situations in perspective and find a productive way to move forward.
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This article first appeared on Fairygodboss and has been republished with permission.
After 17 years as a working mom, I see my biggest job as bringing up my two sons and making them responsible, ethical adults who contribute to the future of the world.
On a day-to-day basis, though, this mostly involves cooking for them, driving them around, cleaning up after them and always remembering how much I love them. I’m fortunate to have a great partner in crime in my husband, and he helps create an environment of gender neutrality at home; daddy cooking doesn’t signify a “special occasion,” for instance. Add to this an employer that empowers you, as well as management that values your contributions, and what you have is a team of indispensable allies for working moms like me who want to keep their sanity.
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Small talk is about as dreary as the murky skies and as painfully vexing as the overcrowded parkway.
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This article by Liv McConnell first appeared on Fairygodboss and has been republished with permission.
Not to contribute toward society’s habit of picking apart feminine communication patterns, but I’ll say it: in my own life, at least, the tendency to over-apologize was something I had to put effort into unlearning.
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I think we both sleep a little sounder curled up with each other. And as annoying and cliché as it sounds, it really won't last forever.
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