Denise Schipani / 17 Comments / modern families, mothers and work, parenting in the media / K.J. Dell'Antonia, Katrina Alcorn, Maxed Out book, Motherlode blog, New York Times /
My house is kind of a mess. Not the kind where you’d walk in and want to call up one of those hoarder shows to nominate me, mind you. And not the kind where you hold in your pee rather than use one of my bathrooms*. Friends and family always tell me (and I presume […]
Denise Schipani / 19 Comments / childcare, Mommy Wars, mothers and work / childcare costs, Daily Worth, work-at-home-moms /
This story I wrote for the financial website Daily Worth more than a year ago popped up on Twitter yesterday, so I went back and read it, and the comments it received, again. Two things came to mind: One, I stand by my assertion that the $80K or so I spent on childcare (this doesn’t […]
Denise Schipani / 5 Comments / family finances, in the news/media, mothers and work, Uncategorized / mommy guilt, mommy wars, Pew Research Social & Demographic Trends; working mothers; working parents; Connie Schultz /
Well, lookie-hoo: The Pew Reseach Center recently published the results of survey that reveals the following: A full four in ten households with kids under age 18 have mothers who are the sole or primary breadwinners. (That’s 40%, folks!). Drill a bit deeper and you discover that 37% of that number are married mothers who […]
Denise Schipani / 3 Comments / family life, mommy guilt, mothers and work, parenting in the media, school / Downton Abbey, Jezebel, Lindy West, New York Post /
Small housekeeping note: Y’all might be accustomed to my post-writing pace of, what, a couple times a month? But brace yourself for the month of June. Better yet, tell all your mom friends to subscribe before June 1 (the subscribe button is right up at the top right, next to the blog header!), because I’ve […]
Denise Schipani / 14 Comments / discipline, family finances, guest posts, mom bloggers, mothers and work, Uncategorized / Emma Johnson, Wealthy Single Mommy /
A big part of my Mean Mom approach is being married to a Mean Dad. My husband is old-school in the right ways (he’s tough and consistent) while eschewing some of the old-school-dad stuff like hiding his face behind a newspaper and leaving all the child-rearin’ to me. He’s out there (literally) kicking a soccer […]
Denise Schipani / 8 Comments / mothers and work, parenting controversies / Ann Romney, CNN, FOX news, Hilary Rosen, Huffington Post, Mitt Romney, mommy wars /
Did you hear the one about the stay-at-home mother who was outraged that a working-outside-the-home mother denigrated her choice? Or the one where the working-outside-the-home mother felt put down by the stay-at-home mother, who implied, again, that she wasn’t “raising her children”? Surely you have. They’ve been sniping at one another for decades. Or […]
Denise Schipani / 22 Comments / modern families, mommy guilt, Moms on moms, mothers and work, parenting controversies / Bringing Up Bebe, Mom guilt, Pamela Druckerman, stay at home moms and guilt, working moms and guilt /
If the Olympic Games had been founded by modern American moms (rather than ancient Greeks with chariots and time to kill), the prize for Most Abject Guilt would be a coveted gold. I refuse to compete. I like to say I was born without the guilt gene, but after reading Pamela Druckerman’s Bringing Up Bebe, […]
Denise Schipani / 13 Comments / family life, modern families, mommy guilt, mothers and work / AOL Jobs, Clare Gordon, maternity leave /
So, here’s a quick quiz: What does the United States have in common with Swaziland, Liberia, and Papua New Guinea? I’ll wait. And no, it’s not because those nations’ governments have just named pizza a vegetable, as the U.S. Congress just has. Got an answer? If you were thinking that the U.S.’s maternity […]
Denise Schipani / 5 Comments / education, family life, mothers and work, school, summer, vacation / Samantha Bee, school, summer vacation, The Daily Show, WSJ.com /
Those of you who know me won’t be surprised to hear that I’ve entered my usual, hair-tearing, mid-to-late-August, why-is-summer-vacation-so-long phase of the summer. We’ve actually had a nice summer this year, even given that last year included our Disney vacation and this year we’re not doing much in the way of leaving town. The boys […]
Denise Schipani / 9 Comments / mothers and work, vacation /
So I know I’ve been ever so slightly M.I.A. lately. I beg your indulgence, but a couple of things are going on. Kids, for one — it’s mid-winter break right now, which means I’m even more pulled between my double existence of stay-at-home mom, and work-at-home mom. Sometimes, seriously, I wish I was one or […]