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Work with your kids
Can you get any work done when your kids are around?
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Timesaving tips for running your household
Essential Kids members and full-time working mothers share their tips on how they juggle work, children, and getting everyone up and out the door every morning. On time!
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The relaxed mummy files: The work juggle
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Work no barrier to cooking healthy meals
Working mums feeling guilty for not spending enough time cooking can rest easy. Research shows they are no less likely to provide healthy meals for their children.
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Holiday care is not a black and white issue for working mums
While holiday care is usually juggled by parents using a mix of relatives, friends and commercial programs, it is typically women who opt out of paid work or take lower-status, less-secure jobs to cover the eight-week gap between a worker's annual leave and 12 weeks of school holidays.
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Career Mums: give guilt the flick
Don't worry, career mothers, your children are on the right track, writes Kim Kind.
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When is Daddy coming home?
Fathers are finding smarter ways to mix work and family life, writes Kath Lockett.
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