How to Keep Working From Home Post Pandemic (at least some of the time!)
Well before COVID, most Americans (89%) believed employers should try to offer workers flexibility to meet their families’ needs, as long as the work got done. The the global pandemic shuttered our workplaces and many employers had no choice but to let employees work from home. Now, as the country reopens, workers are being called back to […]
5 Tips for Living with an Elderly Parent
Moving a parent in with you, or moving in with a parent, is as big of a deal as moving your parent to senior living; the challenges are just different. Here are five tips for making the arrangement work. 1. Remember who the adult is. You both are! Your parents may be living under your […]
Why Waiting Until Is A Bad Idea
One of the saddest things we can do in life – as a caregiver, or in any situation – is wait until…wait until things get better, until someone heals, until we get the promotion, until work slows down, until we get thinner, until we find the perfect partner, until the pandemic ends. Our lives are now, not when some event happens, or some event ends. And as challenging as it may be, we can learn to live, not just exist, in and through whatever we are facing.
Pandemic Performance Reviews
If you are a working daughter facing a pandemic performance review this spring, don’t fret. Here are some tips for approaching your review this year and addressing your caregiving responsibilities.
The Working Daughter Reentry Guide
Got FOGO? Fear of going out. After a year of grooming-optional, The Working Daughter Reentry Guide will have you looking presentable again.
The Support Working Daughters Need at Work
Eldercare and career were barely compatible to begin with and then COVID hit. This is the support working daughters need at wrk right now.
A Year of Caring Through COVID
One year of caregiving through COVID-19 and where are we now and what have we learned? Many of us are tired. Worn out from a year when every decision we made, every action we took was fraught with stress. Too many of us are grieving. This anniversary is a painful reminder of who we lost; […]
The 7 Critical Lessons Working Daughters Learned in 2020
Finding meaning in difficult situations can help us heal and build resilience – and 2020 was nothing if not difficult. So what did working daughters learn this year? What lessons can we carry with us into 2021 and share with the rest of the world? 1. Caregivers are more than visitors. No one was prepared […]
To the Working Daughter crawling across the finish line of 2020
To the Working Daughter crawling across the finish line of 2020, we see you! To the one who has cared for others all year and forgotten about herself, we care about you! To the one who thinks she just can’t make it another day of this trying, terrifying year, we’ve got you! To the one […]
The 2020 Working Daughter Holiday Gift Guide
What to gift all of the special people in your life? We’ve got answers! The 2020 Working Daughter Holiday Gift Guide has gift ideas* for all ages and all budgets. And, because we know how busy working daughters are, we’ve got easy wrapping solutions for you too! For your mother Memory keeper Give your mother […]
Announcing National Working Daughters Day
On November 17 We Will Honor the Millions of Unpaid Caregivers Supporting Aging Parents The first National Working Daughters Day, on November 17, will honor the millions of women who are caring for aging parents while working and often raising children too. National Working Daughters Day takes place during National Family Caregivers Month. There are […]
7 Strategies for Dealing with Grief in the Time of COVID
Many describe grief as waves, and I agree. Sometimes grief hits like a tidal wave and you think everything you know and love will be destroyed by it. Sometimes it feels like an onslaught of big waves that threaten to suck you under; surely you will drown. With time, grief feels more like the tide. […]
