by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Sep 19, 2020 | Working Dad, Working Mom
“What, no recess?!” These were the first words I uttered when I reviewed my kids’ 100% remote learning schedule for the fall. They are second and fourth grade boys. Not having a scheduled recess time to run around outside looked like a death sentence. My boys have...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Sep 12, 2020 | Leadership, Working Dad, Working Mom
If you’re an employer, is offering special benefits and supports to your working parents right now, during this pandemic, unfair? Or fair? And is that even a fair question? Over the past few weeks, I’ve been having conversations with many employers about programming...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Sep 5, 2020 | Working Dad, Working Mom
Starting a new job always comes with a steep learning curve. Starting a new job when you’re a new parent brings even bigger – and messier! – challenges. (More on that topic here). And starting a new job, as a new parent, in a global pandemic…well, I have no words...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Aug 22, 2020 | Working Dad, Working Mom
When performance reviews happen depends, of course, on your own employer’s calendar. But come, they will. (That is, unless you’re one of the lucky ones who either has no performance review cycle. Or whose employer has chosen to freeze everyone’s positions and pay...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Aug 15, 2020 | Mindfulness, Working Dad, Working Mom
When is the last time you celebrated a win, no matter how small? In the era of a global pandemic when it seems like loses are a daily occurrence, you may (understandably) have put wins on the back burner. I’m here today to encourage you to reignite them. It turns out...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Jul 30, 2020 | Working Dad, Working Mom
What will the school year look like for our kids? As working parents, how will we survive what is shaping up to be an entire academic year of chaos? If I had a dollar for each time I heard some variation of these questions over the past week, I’d be a wealthy woman....
