Posts Tagged ‘family’

Working at Night is for Raccoons – Not You!

If you’re packing your computer or briefcase and lugging it home to do more work most days you gotta ask yourself, “Why am I doing this?” When you’re sitting in front of the keyboard writing an email to someone at the office at midnight would your friends ask, “Aren’t there other things you’d rather be doing?” When you get your paycheck do you think, “I sure get paid well, that’s… » Continue

June 30 2008 | By Susan | Tagged: areer, family, time-management, work, work-life balance | 11 comments»

6 Mother’s Day Gift Tips for the Productive Lady in Your Life

The problem with picking a gift based purely on productivity is that most people like gifts that they won’t buy for themselves: people want something fun, something special — and your mother is no exception. And Mother’s Day is almost here: it falls on the on the second Sunday of May, which just happens to be this weekend. We each have only a few days to make sure that… » Continue

May 8 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: family, gift, mother, mother's day, present | 3 comments»

Helping the Family to Get Things Done

Ever had a conversation with your brother about how he feels like he never seems to get anything done beyond checking his email? Or talked to your mother about her difficulties finishing a project?

Have you ever tried to help them set up a system — make their lives a little simpler or a little more productive? And had that attempt blow up in your face?

My experiences with helping my family… » Continue

May 6 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: family, help, Productivity | 11 comments»

10 Ways We Hurt Our Romantic Relationships

It’s not easy to have a great relationship with your boy/girlfriend, partner, or spouse. But it’s not impossible, either — it takes some work, of course, but it’s good work, work that’s a joy when everything comes together.

A lot of times, though, the work isn’t enough. We get in our own way with ideas and attitudes about relationships that are not only wrong, but often work to undermine… » Continue

February 22 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: family, love, marriage, partnership, relationship, romance | 15 comments»

How to Improve Your Relationship with a Weekly Review

One of the big complaints that people trying to get themselves more organized and productive have is that no matter how on-the-ball they get, their family still throws them curve balls. While it’s clearly insane to expect a 6-year-old to start worrying about todo lists and ubiquitous capture, I think at least part of the problem lies with our attitudes and expectations about our home life. Home is supposed… » Continue

February 18 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: family, gtd, marriage, partner, relationship, spouse, weekly_review | 11 comments»

How to Keep Family Relationships Intact with Geni

There was a time when it was easy to keep up with your family – they lived down the road, on the block or nearby in the city.

That time passed decades ago, with technological advances in transport and communication, and now families can be strewn across the country, or even the world.

But those same advances in technology and communication that keep families apart can also relieve the relationship deterioration… » Continue

February 15 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: family, genealogy, relationships, social-network, web-app | 5 comments»

Leaving the McMansion for the Small Life

Natives to pastoral areas know what it looks like. What was once a pasture with cows now looks like a small village — only the homes are anything but small. These McMansions are often well over 4,000 square feet large with plenty of luxury amenities for the average sized family. Interestingly, these mega-homes may not be all the rage in our future suburban landscapes.

The Star Ledger… » Continue

November 26 2007 | By Mike | Tagged: family, home, house, living, small, space | 17 comments»

7 Ways to Help Your Child be a Homebody

After a 10 hour road trip this past weekend, my family and I spent the balance of the weekend puttering around the house and enjoying some of the simple things in life. We have come to accept that we are content spending time at home just being a family. Here are seven simple tips for helping you and your children enjoy time at home.

Establish routine. Whether… » Continue

November 2 2007 | By Mike | Tagged: children, family, life | 8 comments»

27 Games For Kids While On A Road Trip

Taking the kids out on the road can be a blessing and a nightmare. Also, from their perspective, it can be quite boring.

So to let restless kids have a little fun makes sense; but it shouldn’t cost you the price of in-car monitors and gaming consoles! Here are 27 great [and free] games you and the kids can play anytime, anywhere.

License Plate Lingo: You can use the license… » Continue

October 22 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: family | 2 comments»

10 Ways New Parents Change

Brett Kelly over at Cranking Widgets recently became a father [congratulations!] and wanted to share some changes he’s noticed in himself since having a child.

Anyone who’s expecting, such as my brother, can always use some light reading in regards to becoming a parent. Brett has a few that you may not have expected, and of course wouldn’t expect to be true for every parent in the world.

He also puts… » Continue

October 3 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: family | 2 comments»

How to Survive as the Family Tech Support Guy (or Gal)

One of the most insidious pressures on tech-savvy people these days is the seemingly constant pressure to provide quick, top-quality computer and web support — to our families. If you happen to do web design, system administration, programming, or other vaguely computer-related work as part of your job, the pressure is magnified all the more.

It’s work we do out of love, and usually because we want our family… » Continue

October 1 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: client, computer, family, techsupport, timemanagement | 67 comments»

Becoming a Great Step-Dad

The biggest change I made this year, and maybe in my life, is becoming a step-dad. Moving in with my partner meant making a commitment to her three children, a commitment that turned out to mean a heck of a lot more after I made it than I had thought it would.

Becoming a step-dad is akin to becoming a father, but there are a few important differences that… » Continue

July 23 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: children, family, howto, parenting | 22 comments»

What To Do When Your Toddler Won’t Eat

Does it happen to you that you spend a lot of time on the dinner table because you kids won’t eat? Parenting Ideas has 10 facts on helping you to feed your toddler easily. There are also straight forward tricks to get this thing done:

7. If all things you have done don’t work, what about trying bribery treat. For this part, I don’t care about what some “experts” say it… » Continue

May 29 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: eating, family, kid | 1 comment»

Kid Hacks

For those of you who’ve chosen to spawn, I thought I’d quickly point out two some great sites dedicated to hacks for the kid-enabled in the audience:

ParentHacks- great site with frequest posts by Asha Dornfest. Recent posts include using the hotel coffee maker to do oatmeal, toddler travel hacks, and plenty more.
Kiddley.com- which featured 5 minute potato people today, and a guide to growing a pineapple

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May 16 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: family, hacks | no comments»

Achieving Work-Life Balance #3: Not Just for Those with Families

Work-life balance was first brought into the workplace when employers realized that their employees needed a balance between their work and their life outside of it. Many employers adopted this concept with families in mind, but work-life balance is not just for individuals with a family. It is true that the employees who benefit the most from a work-life balance policy are those with families; however, others do… » Continue

April 11 2006 | By Guest | Tagged: balance, family, life, lifebalanceseries, work | 6 comments»

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