If, like me, you have no intention of walking into a store between now and January 2, but you do want to show appreciation for the people in your life who get you through the ups and downs of working daughterhood, fret not! The Working Daughter Holiday Gift Guide 2019 has gift ideas for everyone […]
When both of my parents were diagnosed with terminal illnesses on the same day, I was completely unprepared to become their caregiver. I was unprepared to become their health advocate. I was unprepared to move them out of their home of 30 years and into assisted living, memory care, and eventually hospice. I was unprepared […]
Trust is the currency we trade for flexibility. When you are a caregiver, life is unpredictable. But if there is one thing you can predict, it is that caregiving will at some point interfere with your paid work. Before that happens, do what you can to build trust at work – and maintain it! Trust […]
Sometimes, we’re just not okay. We hurt, grieve, stress, burn out. It’s part of life but it makes us comfortable – and it can really make the people around us uncomfortable. But it’s okay to not be okay. It’s normal not to be okay sometimes. It’s normal to be okay and not okay in the […]
Stress! It’s inevitable in a Working Daughter’s life, but that doesn’t mean it has to rule (or ruin) your life. Even if it’s for only 10 minutes a day, it’s key we find some ways to counter the pressures that often accompany caregiving. Exercise and meditation are awesome stress boosters. And we have a few […]
Last week sucked. 1 trip to the Genius Bar 2 crying episodes in public 3 trips to local computer recovery experts 4 tech support calls 5 new pieces of equipment 6 hours of configuring a new laptop 7 days without a computer But it wasn’t just the broken computer, it was everything. Or was it? […]
It is so frustrating when our parents don’t accept our help or listen to our advice, isn’t it? We expect our teenagers not to listen to us, but our parents, shouldn’t they know better? It doesn’t seem so. Almost daily, a member of the Working Daughter community expresses their extreme frustration that their parent won’t […]
As a Working Daughter, chances are high that at some point you will have to support your parent through a hospital stay – planned or unplanned. No fear! We have compiled all of our advice about hospital stays into this handy guide. Did you just get “the call?” Maybe your life was moving along at […]
Working Daughter you need a vacation. I know. I know. You can’t make it happen. There’s work and care, and care, and work and bills. Besides, the stress of planning for a vacation feels like it outweighs the benefit of actually taking one, right? Okay then don’t take a full-fledged vacation. But promise me, you’ll […]
No doubt, the American workplace could use a serious overhaul when it comes to accommodating the fact workers have lives outside of the job. The United States, after all, is the only country in the developed world without a national maternity leave policy and one of thirteen countries in the world that does not guarantee […]
The frustrating news: too often conversations about the need for paid leave focus only on parenting and omit eldercare. The good news: The Family And Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act, sponsored by Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, legislation that would create a national family and medical leave insurance […]
Caring for an aging parent is often referred to as a role reversal when the parent becomes the child and the adult child becomes the parent. It’s an understandable analogy; adult children are often called on to help their parents with activities of daily living like bathing, dressing and feeding. If a parent has cognitive […]
