Posted in Managing Talent, tagged Ikea, learning, managing, parenting on July 2, 2008 | No Comments »
We went to Ikea for dinner tonight. (This time, we didn’t go just to get the monkeys to behave, but knowing that I wanted to go check some stuff out gave me a great way to keep those guys in line all day. A nice byproduct.)
After dinner, we went downstairs to get ice cream. We [...]
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged empowerment, managing, parenting on June 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Sue Shellenbarger wrote a nice post about how women indirectly influence how their spouses parent a few days ago on The Juggle, the WSJ’s blog on juggling work and parenting. A study written up in Journal of Family Psychology found that the way a new mom reacts to her spouse’s parenting efforts has a huge impact on whether he [...]
Posted in Learning and Teaching, tagged yoga, consulting, expectation setting, managing on May 19, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m a bit of a sloucher. It’s an ingrained habit which I’m not particularly proud of. In fact, if you forced me to make a list of 10 things I’d like to change about my physical presence, standing up straight would probably make the top 5.
Until recently, I didn’t seem to be able to do anything [...]
Posted in Direct Communication, tagged conflict resolution, discipline, managing, Parenting Wisdom on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
I pretty much stopped reading books about parenting after the first year of the monkeys’ lives. In part, I stopped reading because I was less desperate for help. In part, I stopped because I finally realized that there was no answer in any book that would really help me figure out my kids and figure out [...]
Posted in Direct Communication, tagged expectation setting, jeans, managing, marriage on March 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was trying out a new pair of jeans by wearing them around the house the other day, and I asked USD if he thought I should keep them. He commented on the length and the color, but the crux of the question for jeans is all about one critical component: how my butt looks.
”They’re good,” he said, “better than [...]
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged frameworks, hiring decisions, household help, leadership, managing, organizational behavior on January 17, 2008 | No Comments »
So I followed the advice from First Break All the Rules in hiring a new nanny, and I’m really pleased with the person that we’ve hired. She’s got a great attitude, the kids really love her, and she seems comfortable managing the challenges of the job (and by that I mean corralling a pair of [...]
