Type A Mommy

Working moms unite! This board seeks to help busy moms who may tend to be a bit Type A. See also our other blog just for working mothers: CorporetteMoms.com.
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Week in the Life of a Working Mom – CorporetteMoms.com
Working moms share a week in their lives, including work-life balance tips from a wide variety of careers.
Kids' Activities, Working Parents, and Overscheduling
Are you overscheduling your kids with their activities? How do you fit in activities around work, school, homework, bedtime, and family time? For working parents, how do you deal with the logistics of kids having lots of after-school activities, without feeling like you're just paying a chauffeur?
How to Find Balance as a Working Mom - CorporetteMoms
I'm rounding up my best tips on how to find balance as a working mom -- but I'd love to hear yours! I think it really boils down to 1) recognizing that you can do everything you want, just not all at once; 2) playing the do, delegate or NOPE game and doing motherhood YOUR way, 3) keeping lines of communication open with your husband or co-parent so there's an equal workload for parents, and 4) remembering who you were before kids and who you want to be once you're out of the thick of motherhood
Activity Scheduling Tips for Working Moms: How to Easily Plan Summer Camps, Sports & More
Scheduling kids' activities (like summer camps, sports teams, and more) should be fun and easy... right? If you're like a lot of working moms, especially of multiple kids, you may feel like you have to get a personal assistant just to figure everything out! Kat's found an easy and pretty reliably way to coordinate the logistics, so she shared her easy activity scheduling tips for working moms!
Week in the Life of a Working Mom: Engineering Manager in the Midwest - CorporetteMoms
An engineering manager in the Midwest shares a week in her life as a working mom of two, including 4:30 a.m. gym wake-ups, family dietary restrictions, and her school mentoring program for girls.
Nursing Clothes for Working Moms: Five Companies to Try
We rounded up the best types of nursing clothes for working women -- and the best brands! -- so you can wear nursing clothes to work if you want to.
How to Plan Dinner Every Night
Feeling stressed over parenting tasks, like planning dinner every night? Kat's found a great, EASY system, and is sharing her best tips on how to plan dinner -- this system especially works great if you're trying to have a more equal marriage, as your husband or partner can build the system, plan the dinners, and implement the menus as easily as you can...
How I Royally Screwed Up Potty Training (And What to Do Instead) - CorporetteMoms
How I Royally Screwed Up Potty Training -- And What to Do Instead
How Did You Decide How Many Kids to Have? - CorporetteMoms
How does one decide how many kids to have? What factors are important in deciding, particularly to a woman who loves her career? Working moms discuss how they decided how many kids to have.
Why NOT to Buy a Fancy Diaper Bag When You Find Out You're Pregnant
Great advice from other working moms about what NOT to buy when you find out you're pregnant (hint: a $1400 fancy diaper bag may be among those things...)
Week in the Life of a Working Mom: A Manager-Analyst in TX - CorporetteMoms
A working foster mom shares her work-life balance as a manager-analyst, including her life with a foster child, a husband who has a flexible schedule, and a female boss who's not always understanding about the challenges of being a working mom.
Kid Birthday Parties: Guest Etiquette, Gifts, & Parent Socializing
Working moms discuss kid birthday party guest etiquette -- tips and tricks like how much to spend, how to socialize with parents you don't know, and more. Kid Birthday Parties: Guest Etiquette, Gifts, & Parent Socializing
A Boston Fundraiser Shares Her Work-Life Balance
A working mom in Boston with one daughter and another on the way shares her work-life balance as a fundraiser in health care, including thoughts on daycare, having a dog, and how she and her engineer husband manage everything!
The Postpartum Identity Crisis: How to Feel Like Yourself Again
A lot of moms go through a postpartum identity crisis -- yet no one seems to talk about it a ton. Working moms talk about how to stop feeling lost and feel more like yourself after having a baby.
The Best Blogs, Newsletters, and More for Working Moms - CorporetteMoms
Which are the best blogs and newsletters for working mothers? We rounded up some of our favorites, including humorous blogs, parenting blogs, parenting blogs with specific advice on things like screentime and decorating your home with kids, and work-life balance blogs for moms in business!