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In light of the ongoing debate over how and whether working mothers can have it all, the authors say women can have successful careers and be good moms, but only if their spouses are equal partners in the work at home.
“The most important career decision you make is whom you marry,” they write. They quote research that shows that couples who split the home responsibilities equally have a lower risk of getting divorced. They also cite a study of 1,250 fathers that indicated children do better academically when their fathers eat, play ...
By allowing sources to speak anonymously, the authors were able to get candid responses from couples and employers about why women struggle with this, but men don’t. The last third of the book is devoted to advice on how to get to 50/50 with your spouse.
“The Good Mother Myth. ” Avital Norman Nathman edited this collection of essays about motherhood. Rather than painting pictures of idyllic mothers, the pieces debunk the idea that there is one right way to parent a child.
The authors are refreshingly honest about parenting, from the opening essay about a mom dropping her daughter when she was a baby to another about learning how to say no to the volunteer recruiters at your child’s school. There is an essay about only wanting to have one child and another about how women compare themsel...
The book also includes the voices of a mother who struggles with mental illness, a male-to-female transsexual parent, a teen mom and a mother who smokes marijuana to deal with the stress of raising her child.
The message: There’s no such thing as the perfect mother. And most of us are perfectly good mothers. Thank goodness.
“How to Be the Parent You Always Wanted to Be.” Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish revisit their 1992 guide to respectful parenting with this new release, a workbook accompanied by an audio guide.
The authors’ goal is to help parents communicate effectively with their children, particularly in today’s “time-starved times.” Chapters about feelings, cooperation, punishment, praise and anger include comic strips illustrating pertinent situations, followed by quizzes and exercises that allow readers to practice the ...
The last part of the book is answers to questions they are frequently asked when they give parenting seminars.
“Spectacular Bond: Reaching the Child With Autism.” Marion Blank, Suzanne Goh and Susan Deland co-authored this guide to a program parents can use at home to help children with autism develop language skills and master appropriate behavior.
“Tremendous results are attainable for the great majority of children,” the authors say, when parents focus on improving the parent-child bond.
The method described in the book is primarily for children ages 2 to 6 but can be used for children up to 10 years old. It requires parents to change how they talk to their child, how they go about their daily routines and how they show affection.
The program has six parts: simplify the world; build self-control; manage meltdowns; sit quietly; organize daily life; and move on. They are all building toward “achieving inner calm and control,” the authors write.
The two women in Prince Charles’ life fought a bitter battle to paint each other in the worst possible light, a new book reveals.
Prince Charles was “paralyzed by guilt” after his wife, Princess Diana, was killed in a Paris car crash, and one of the queen’s courtiers claimed that William and Harry were “critical of him for what had happened to their mother,” according to a shocking new book that is making headlines across the U.K. this week.
Tom Bower’s unflattering biography of Prince Charles, Rebel Prince, has been serialized in the Daily Mail. The book paints Prince Charles as a petulant and demanding man, who once sent a truck with his bed and various furnishings, including pictures and side tables, to be installed in a host’s guest room before he arri...
The book has also provided a devastating portrait of relations between the queen and Charles’s second wife, Camilla Parker Bowles, with whom he had a romantic relationship before, during, and after his marriage to Diana.
Bower reported that years later, the queen and her husband were still so furious that Camilla and Charles had continued their romance while he was married to Diana—including in the early days of the marriage—that the queen refused to even speak to Camilla at the party to celebrate her marriage to his son.
The latest extract in the Daily Mail explores the battle between Camilla and Diana.
Camilla fought back in less dramatic but just as effective ways, the Mail says.
Camilla’s key operative in her battle to win the hearts and minds of the British public was Charles’ spin doctor Mark Bolland, whom, the book claims, was hired on the recommendation Camilla’s divorce lawyer.
Bolland was made Charles’ assistant private secretary, but there was never any question that his No. 1 job was to rehabilitate Camilla in the public mind.
He became Charles and Camilla’s most important consigliere for a seven year spell, and developed a reputation as a Machiavellian press manipulator.
Bolland has been the subject of many unflattering reports and profiles over the years. A BBC documentary in 2015 detailed how he and Charles leaked stories that were damaging to William and Harry and upset them in order to improve his own image.
One of these concerned a story that Harry had smoked marijuana.
Bolland reportedly cooked up a deal to confirm the story to the press, on condition they reported that Charles had taken his son to a drug rehab clinic to educate him on the dangers of drugs after “discovering” his drug use.
In 1998, when William met Camilla for the first time, Charles and Bolland leaked all the details to the press, to William’s great distress.
The plan to rehabilitate Camilla was moving smoothly along until Diana was killed in a car crash in a Paris underpass in 1997.
Bolland’s master plan to rehabilitate Camilla was suspended immediately; instead, she adopted a hugely reduced profile and tried to stay out of the press.
At the beginning of 1999, 17 months after the Paris crash, Charles could wait no longer.
He told Bolland, “Let’s risk the biscuit,” Bower reports.
Bolland duly leaked their location to the press and they were photographed together for the first time, at the door of the Ritz Hotel in London.
CHICAGO — Julia Plambeck is 13 years old and spends her time fostering neonatal kittens for PAWS Chicago.
The neonatal kittens are just under three weeks old and need to be bottle-fed every couple of hours and given medications. When the kittens are older and weigh enough, they are returned to PAWS to move on to their surgical procedures before being available for adoption.
Julia spreads her message of fostering through her Instagram account, Julie_fosters, where she has nearly 3,000 followers.
The teen said her goal is to get more people to foster and to learn the importance of fostering.
She wants to be a veterinarian when she's older, preferably a shelter vet.
Sipo has released details of expenses for 2017.
It brings to €3.4 million the amount known to have been paid to TDs and Ministers between the general election and the formation of the new government.
The boxer was speaking ahead of May elections in the Philippines.
The Oireachtas has published full figures for 2012. Click through to see how much your TDs received.
January 26 is Australia Day, when it is traditional for people from other countries to formally receive Aussie citizenship.
We’ll be holding a referendum on abolishing the Seanad at some stage in 2013. So how much does it cost us every year?
There’s also an across-the-board cut for political expenses, while severance pay for office holders will be scrapped.
The Taoiseach tells Pearse Doherty that cabinet ministers only receive about a tenth of the accommodation allowances that TDs do.
The head of the Houses of the Oreachtas Commission believes allowances should not cover travel around the country.
224 of the 226 members of the Dáil and Seanad were paid allowances in August, even though both houses were in recess.
Every week we turn the lights down, get the popcorn on and watch one of your favourites together. Do join us.
We thought it would be interesting to ask for a copy for a random TD’s receipts for what they spent their vouched expenses on. We were turned down. This is why.
TheJournal.ie first reported in February how a tweak to the expenses system meant TDs could claim twice for some costs.
Column: Our politicians are overpaid. It’s time they rejoined the real world.
A new campaign is calling for politicians’ pay to be benchmarked against real jobs. Aaron McKenna explains why the salaries have to shrink.
A new regime means independent TDs and Senators are now paid two different kinds of allowance – to cover the same expenses.
Former junior minister Ivor Callely has been arrested as part of an investigation into the use of fraudulent receipts.
12 independent members of the Seanad are entitled to a little-known allowance of around €23,000 per year, TDs are told.
A study commissioned by the Italian government finds that some MPs make €18,000 per month – several times what the Dutch do.
Michael Noonan reveals that ministers can take €3,500 off their tax expenses if they need to stay in hotels while in Dublin.
Civil servants are entitled to enormous pensions largely because of rules brought in by politicians to boost their own retirement.
Pittsburgh, with its hills, narrow side streets, snow, and many bridges, may not seem like the ideal venue to deploy cars that can have difficulty navigating hills, narrow streets, snow, and bridges. But the city is home to Carnegie Mellon’s renowned National Robotics Engineering Center, and in the winter of 2015, Uber...
Uber’s autonomous vehicles have already begun picking up passengers, but they still have someone behind the wheel in the event the car hits a snag. It seems overstated to call this person a driver since much of the time the car will be driving itself. Uber’s ultimate goal, and the goal of Google and Lyft and Daimler an...
The timeline is a bit fuzzy. According to a remarkably bullish report issued by Morgan Stanley in 2013, sometime between 2018 and 2022 cars will have “complete autonomous capability”; by 2026, “100% autonomous penetration” of the market will be achieved. A study by the market research firm IHS Automotive predicts that ...
Can We Escape from Time?
Many countries have grown rich on natural resources, especially oil and gas, and have improved the overall standard of living of their citizens. Success stories include a diverse set of countries, including Botswana, United Arab Emirates, and Kazakhstan (with an equal number of contrasting failures).
However, with lower commodity prices, many of these past successful economies need to adjust and find new sources of growth. They need to diversify their economies, which usually involves adopting new industries or entering new markets with existing products. Starting from market dominance in a few industries, or econo...
Diversification involves learning about innovative products, new technology, and uncharted markets. But another agenda is equally important—the “unlearning” agenda. This is relevant for most stakeholders but specially for governments. Governments need to unlearn in order to learn.
Consider the case of natural resource rich countries. These countries typically have a dominance of natural-resource seeking and public procurement seeking investment, such as investment in oil extraction or refining, or building publicly funded roads and hospitals. Less common are efficiency-seeking investors, who see...
In the traditional paradigm, countries choose among competing investors willing to either exploit rich natural resources or compete for public infrastructure projects. In the efficiency-seeking investment paradigm, it is the other way round—countries compete to attract investment. In a public procurement driven paradig...
Understanding this requires a mindset shift. A paradigm shift in overall development strategy (i.e., toward diversification), leading to an efficiency-seeking foreign investment paradigm, means that governments need to view their regulatory role differently. The regulatory regime, both de jure and de facto, will need t...
Diversification implies new activities and new ways of doing things, even if the move is to adjacent areas in the product space. Innovative companies are often small and lack the resources that large, established companies have to negotiate the regulatory landscape. A risk-averse, control approach to regulation thus di...
Yet, such regulatory approaches are common in economies dominated by natural resources. As governments sought to ensure optimum use of natural resources or the efficient delivery of infrastructure and services funded by public procurement, they developed a risk-averse approach. Driven by distrust of businesses, regulat...
Elaborate licensing regimes are a reflection of this. Officials argue that these are needed in order to closely monitor investment trends and investors so that they do not indulge in “undesirable” activities and make wrong decisions that are costly to them and to society.
These tendencies are understandable, but they create the worst of both worlds. Businesses are burdened and investment is discouraged. At the same time, regulatory enforcement and other important tasks of government suffer due to the strain placed on the limited administrative resources of government. For example, inves...
Countries aspiring to diversify their economies will have to unlearn the old approach to regulations. Governments will need to adopt a new approach, relying on smart risk management and a more nuanced method of regulatory governance, based on trust, i.e., the belief that the vast majority of investors have good intenti...
This is a difficult mind-shift to make but an essential one. Although arduous, unlearning is often a prerequisite to learning.
When a credit card company says they'll give me free credit for 12 months, I consider paying off my balance before the end of the period -- and avoiding the interest charges that will appear if I don't -- a challenge.
My romance with these offers started several years ago when the receptionist for my son's orthodontist flashed me a toothy grin and handed me the bill for his braces. I gulped at the total and decided to apply for a card that offered a zero-interest period to help handle the expenses. I paid that balance off befor...
But before you opt to use a 0% offer to pay down your bills, here are five tips to keep in mind.
Before you apply for a new card, make sure that's exactly what you're getting. With a 0% offer, the promotion expiration is the date by which you must pay off your balance or else the remaining amount will be subject to the standard APR from that point forward -- usually between 12 and 24%. Also note that the...
To take full advantage of a 0% card, it's helpful to calculate how much you will need to pay each month to pay off your balance before the interest charges return. For instance, if you spend $1,000 and you get a six-month 0% deal, you would need to pay about $166 each month to avoid paying interest. Thinking you&a...
While a 0% card can help you pay for expenses that you might not otherwise be able to afford, you will pay more money if you fail to pay your balance off in time. Just because the credit card issuer is willing to offer you $4,000 for nine months doesn't mean you should use all of that credit at once -- unless you ...
Not all 0% cards are created equal. Look for a card that gives you the longest promotional period possible, which can help you spread out the costs. For instance, $1,400 will cost you just $58 per month over 24 months, compared to $116 over 12 months and $233 over six months.
If you'll be using a 0% card to make a balance transfer, be aware that there are generally fees involved, which typically amount to 3-5% of the amount transferred. Before you transfer a large amount of money, make certain you do the math on fees or you could negate your reason for making the transfer in the first ...
Used responsibly, a zero-interest credit card can be a great way to avoid interest payments and improve your financial standing. Rising to the challenge of paying off your balance in a timely manner can offer a nice feeling of satisfaction too.
Editor's note: Carmen Cusido is a freelance writer based in Union City, New Jersey, and a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She's a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists' New York City board. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own.
(CNN) -- Growing up in the United States, my summers were filled with trips to Little Havana in Miami, where my family and I would watch anti-communist plays featuring popular Latino actors. Those trips would include hours-long pig roasts, where family members would animatedly discuss the big policy issues of the day, ...
My parents were among the men and women who fled the country in the 1960s, and from them, I learned about human rights abuses, lack of political and press freedoms and other forms of repression, something that helped mold my opinions about U.S. policy towards Cuba. In fact, having grown up in this kind of environment, ...
But after the better part of three decades, I'm starting to change my mind. Indeed, I've begun to question the 52-year-old U.S. embargo against Cuba, and have grown less and less sure that its continuation is really helping the Cuban people.
Like many U.S.-born children of Cuban exiles, I have a complicated identity. But while I will never support Cuba's current repressive political system, I have started to see how the United States' embargo against the communist island could bolster government officials there, who can simply blame the embargo for any sho...
Alan Gross to leave Cuban prison?
Five decades ago, my father boarded a plane from Havana to New York and vowed never to return to the island. My mother last saw her beloved Cuba when she left by boat for Asturias, Spain, in 1961. She says she saw her family and friends lose their homes and possessions, and told me how other exiles were excoriated as "...
So my recent decision to visit the country for the first time troubled my parents. For example, I'm outspoken about human rights issues, and my mother was worried that I'd be punished for speaking my mind. And remember, this is a country known for its media censorship, a place where just-released American, Alan Gross, ...
In fact, Gross's plight was a topic of discussion among the group of about a dozen of us who went on a tour of Cuba last November that was organized by the Denver-based nonprofit organization Chamber of the Americas, whose mission is "to facilitate commerce and understanding between the businesses and governments of th...
During my politically active teen years and into my 20s, when I protested the U.S. decision to send Elian Gonzalez home and had anti-communism banners and Ronald Reagan quotes adorning my dorm room, I vowed not to visit the island until the current dictatorship was part of Cuba's distant past. Yet here I was, in my ear...
And I was pleasantly surprised that some of our guest speakers openly criticized government policies, talking about everything from the need for more private business to their dismay that the government had shut down beloved 3-D theaters, arguing they'd never been authorized.
This isn't to say that I wasn't exposed to things that troubled me, even during this short trip: I saw billboards filled with socialist propaganda, there was clearly a lack of press freedom, and there is the fact that even though they're highly educated, Cubans still don't earn a decent wage: the average Cuban earns 20...
And I know I'm far from the only one hoping for an end to the embargo. As noted by CNN, millennials of Latino descent are generally in favor of ending the embargo, with one poll noting that more than half of Cuban-Americans surveyed in Miami wanted an end to the embargo, while a solid majority of them also favored rest...
Across the water, many of the college age students I spoke to said they'd like to see government reform, and they told me that they yearn for more access to information on the island. Part of their desire comes from meeting young Cuban-Americans and other visitors from the United States who discuss some of the freedoms...
All this said, I can never personally forgive the decades-long human rights abuses in my parents' homeland. But ultimately, opening dialogue between Cubans on the island and overseas would be a good start on the path of trying to repair a long and painful rift. If we can embark on this journey, then we might be able to...
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