There’s no book to prepare you for all of the things you’ll have to figure out when returning from maternity leave. Here are five things that will help you regain your work sense of self and then some. 1. Take it easy on yourself In every way, you need to be kind to yourself. More so than you ever have. The way you’ve…
In a perfect world, us moms would just clone ourselves. One clone could be at the office; another could be carpooling the kids. But the world’s not perfect and, unfortunately, we just can’t be everywhere at once. Reese Witherspoon knows how it is. The 41-year-old mom of three (daughter Ava, 18, and sons Deacon, 14 and Tennessee, 5) has been balancing a busy…
The day she went back to work after her first maternity leave was the day Tiffany Dufu realised that the political was personal, and that the rules of her domestic life would have to change. It wasn’t going to be easy to juggle parenting, a career and a relationship, but it was possible, and she was ready. Six hours later,…
