Top tips for the working mom

Jane Buckingham, Author and Trend Forecaster, shares advice for working moms on how they can do their best to do it all and balance family and work
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Top tips for the working mom

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Every working mom comes to me and says, “How do I do it all?” Well guess what, you can't. No one is superwoman, so don’t try to be. I like to think of this. Thinking of yourself as a ship. You just don’t want to upside, you don’t want to see you’re too much to one side of worker, too much to the other side of home. Also, don’t let guilt be your guide. If you spend all of your time feeling badly because you’re not at work enough or you’re not at home enough, you’re always going to be in the down position. Then finally, set clear limits. Let your kids know that you’ll pick them up two days a week, and what those days are, or let your office know that you’ll always have to leave early on Friday. Once people know the limits are, they can get accustomed to them, but you’ll be the person to set them.

Jane Buckingham, Author and Trend Forecaster, shares advice for working moms on how they can do their best to do it all and balance family and work

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Jane Buckingham

Author & Trend Forecaster

Jane Buckingham is the author of the best selling book series The Modern Girl’s Guide to Life, The Modern Girl’s Guide to Motherhood, The Modern Girl’s Guide to Sticky Situations and the The Modern Girl’s Guide to Raising Decent Daughters (Decentdaughters.com). Buckingham was the host of The Modern Girl’s Guide to Life on The Style Network and is a regular contributor to Good Morning America. She is the founder and CEO of Trendera, one of the countries foremost trend forecasting and consulting agencies, working for companies including Gap, Hilton, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Fox, Paramount, and many others. She is the proud mother of a decent 11-year-old son and decent nine-year-old daughter.  

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