by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Apr 28, 2018 | Working Dad, Working Mom
[Post update: in 2019, I started an e-mail listerv for anyone who is a leader of a working parent group. If you lead one of these groups, go to this page to sign up for the Working Parent Group Network (WPGN).] It seems I’m becoming a serial instigator of working...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Feb 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
Insomnia came as a shock to me after I had my first baby. When you’re a new parent, you’re dead tired. So that must mean you collapse into bed and fall straight to sleep, right? Not exactly, I discovered. The more I talk to other new parents, the more I realize that...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Dec 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
Starting a new job is hard. Starting a new job when you’re also a sleep-deprived new parent is even harder. Everything in life is new – from new routines, to new colleagues, to new work, to new schedules, to a new human being in your life. Given all this newness,...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Mar 15, 2016 | Mindfulness
Becoming a parent was most definitely unlike any other experience I’d had to date. Other than knowing some basics of taking care of kids from my teenage babysitting years and watching (from a safe distance) a few friends and colleagues enter the world of new...