Around The Watercooler on Shine

When Cougars Hurt Their Cubs.

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by Vicki Larson (Around the Watercooler - Mommy Tracked)

A long time ago, when I was a young girl of about 12 or so, the reality that my parents were sexual beings was thrust upon me quite…

Corporate Culture Craziness.

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By Jennifer Sey (Mommy Track'd:

Does Running Around Count? Three Ways to Start Working Out in 2009

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by Amy Campbell Smith (Mommy Track'd: Around the Watercooler)

A new year is about to dawn and we all know what that means. Resolutions!

For most people this involves list making. The enumeration of things to resolve; formal declarations of will regarding things we feel we should be accomplishing.

As in, the will to exercise regularly.

Exercise is on my list for 2009 and I state it in writing here so that my husband can see it, and with loads of compassion and without a hint of sarcasm, pull it out later as a gentle reminder should my willpower fail me.

Daycare Kids & Myers-Briggs.

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We put our 15-month old son in the nursery at church Sunday. When we picked him up the nursery workers were gushing about how sweet he was and how well he had done being with them for the first time. “He just came right in and made himself at home! Does he go to daycare?” I nodded, and I knew...

Never Let Them See You Sweat

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by Susan Wenner Jackson (Mommy Track'd: Around the Watercooler)

Remember that cheesy deodorant tagline from the 80s: “Never let ‘em see you sweat”? For the past few months, as part of my New Year’s get-fit resolution, I’ve been breaking that rule of female empowerment at the office.

Between meetings, at lunch, after work – pretty much whenever I can find the time – I head down to our office gym for a seriously sweaty workout. That includes changing into my unflattering exercise attire (oversized T-shirt and yoga pants) in the locker room, which is nestled behind my coworkers’ cubicles. Then, I stride past those coworkers (who all happen to be male in that area), who are still clad in regular clothes and going about their work, and head into the gym.

Working mom face time frustrations

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If you are a working mom in the corporate world, you know about the pressures of face time. All you want to do is keep your head down and work hard so that you can get home to your kids as fast as possible. But are you losing work-related leverage because you aren't spending time socializing with colleagues at work? Susan Wenner Jackson, a contributor to the Mommy Track'd Around the Watercooler column ponders the consequences of working moms reluctance to spend more time "around the watercooler."