After several hours of a rough morning with the monkeys, I found myself threatening thus: “I’m going to call your father.” To which the monkeys literally responded: “Why?”
And really, I’m not sure why I said it. They’re not afraid of him, and really, he was working at a cafe. What was he going to do?
I must have [...]
Posts Tagged ‘parenting’
Legacy ’systems’
Posted in Learning and Teaching, tagged discipline, leadership, managing, parenting, Parenting Wisdom on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lessons from the NYT
Posted in Career Satisfaction, tagged working moms, work/life, career planning, parenting on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was a bit surprised to see an article about working and parenting in the Openers Section of this Sunday’s NYT Business section. I’ll admit, I thought there would be more pressing things to write about. But I appreciate the coverage of a topic that is, of course, close to my heart. There are three key issues [...]
Getting out of whine country: how to engineer a change in behavior
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged discipline, leading, management, parenting on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week we were living in Whine Country. All week the monkeys were super whiny, and they’d freak out over basic issues.
One day they came home from school bawling. I sat with them on the couch and tried to talk to them about what happened. “Daddy ripped my fig bar,” was all I could [...]
Stereotypes
Posted in Managing Expectations, tagged Managing Expectations, parenting on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you search for women and domestic life and overwhelmed on Istockphoto you get a bunch of stereotypical parenting images. Like this one. Funny.
Or Sad.
Strong roots to help you move freely
Posted in The Practice of Life, tagged parenting, yoga on August 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The other day my yoga teacher was talking about how to go deeper into a twist during a standing pose. “Focus on your legs,” he said, “Root them. Strong roots will allow you more freedom of movement. Move your energy down to enable you to shift up.”
I know it’s a little cheesy, but it made me [...]
Old enough to learn how to eat an ice cream cone
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged Ikea, learning, managing, parenting on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
The Ikea incentive
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged Ikea, incentives, negotiation, parenting on June 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’m in a sophisticated phase of parenting called bargaining, negotiating and bribery.
I’m not proud, but I’ll do what it takes to ensure that the monkeys not only know that they shouldn’t pull their teacher’s hair in school but that they don’t actually do it.
A couple of weeks ago there was a lot of misbehaving at school. In [...]
The power of the network
Posted in The Practice of Life, tagged ideas, innovation, learning, parenting on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My company just celebrated it’s 10th Anniversary. To celebrate, we invited some amazing thinkers and doers to talk about whatever they’re thinking about and doing these days. My brain is full of interesting ideas, which I’m sure will spill into the blog over time.
But today I’m thinking about one speaker in particular, Andy Hargadon. His blog [...]
My wake
Posted in Managing Expectations, tagged leadership, parenting on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Someone found my blog yesterday by googling “hit new husband with rolling pin.” I am so proud.
The search tracking capability of wordpress is great because it allows you to see the digital wake that your writing leaves. Themes, posts and comments all merge together in this wake in a way that the writer can’t control. [...]
A good reminder: your attitude impacts their ability to do good work
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged empowerment, managing, parenting on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
