Posts by Mommel

Quote: Originally Posted by mamazee  Cases like this are incredibly uncommon. They happen very seldom, but writing about them sells papers (or advertising space on web pages and tv shows) so they are talked about over,...

Just throwing in my two cents here... I didn't bathe DS much at all until he could sit up well on his own, mostly because he hated it. But once he started sitting up by himself, he started enjoying them more.   Here's how I...

Quote: Originally Posted by averyswife  I can't help but I can certainly sympathize! I just recently learned what D-MER was and realized that I have had it with all three of my babies. I have it on the moderate to...

Quote: Originally Posted by esg  Welcome, Mommel. Sounds like you are well into unjobbing. It's pretty neat. What are you studying? I had thought about starting school again since J, my son, is a little older. I was...

Oooo! This is me. Since getting laid off four years ago, I've run a small non-profit (part-time) that I started for a while, I collected unemployment for a bit of course, I wrote some resumes, prepared some taxes, went back to school...

Soooo.... no one wants to touch this topic with a ten foot pole, huh?  

Quote: Originally Posted by Mom31  I am getting started with this new job and I have 8 account manager positions to fill in Illinois and Wisconsin. Does anyone have any creative ideas of how to do this other than...

So, how do you mamas define "single parent"?    Is it strictly based on marital/coupled status, or do you still consider yourself a single parent if you have to deal with an ex with regard to parenting? If not, when do...

  Quote: Originally Posted by porcelina  And one more point -- the main distinction between the MA level work for economists and the PhD level work is the level of autonomy and the nature of the work. MA-level...

Didn't you know? Divorce is catching. I wish I could say that I hadn't read a study that supports that, but I did. Kinda weird. People will stay in a crappy marriage until they see someone else escaping. It's like they want to be sure...