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Dateline: Nashville, Tennessee
I am sitting in a friend's home, just outside Nashville, Tennessee. Sitting in a friend's home is a very and (if I were honest) highly dangerous thing for me to do. The last time I sat anywhere near a friend's home, I wound up in a homeless shelter (at their insistence). I also lost two of what I had considered to be more than twelve years worth of very good friends while I was about it! I was painfully, surprisingly, and more to the point, homelessly wrong about that. I tellya, the things we survive in this world, huh? Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (1) | Blog
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Dads can do the same thing. Along with the income we bring in normally most dads could add in several of the following; Coach, General Contractor, Financial Advisor, Mechanic, Landscaper, IT Support, actually just about all technology support, Chef, co-CEO,…
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One of my favorite quotes in Laurie PK's Mother's Day post comes from the eminently quotable Anne Morrow Lindbergh: “By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.”
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Add to that the fact that mothering work is unpaid, and it's a double whammy. True words like Lindbergh's are why it's both illuminating and depressing to put a dollar figure to the work mothers do at home. Just in time for Mother's Day, Salary.com has done that in its 9th annual mom salary survey. This year, a stay-at-home mom performing the 10 most popular "mom-job functions" does the work equivalent of a $122,732 salary, up 5 percent over last year's calculations. A mom who works outside the home 40 hours a week does work that equates to an annual cash compensation of $76,184, an 11 percent increase. A lucrative second job--if that second shift were actually a paid gig. Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (459) | Blog
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ugh school is boring and i'm going to winter camp not winter formal and i'm sad about that because i don't want to go. but its paid for and i really want to go to winter formal.i even got a dress so yea ppl msg.me love ya Read More »
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