Comments on: Friday miscellany: Running out of time

By: Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 11:34:55 +0000

In reply to Molly Beck. @Molly- you always knew! So fun that you can still use that now!

By: Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 11:34:27 +0000

In reply to Grateful Kae. @Grateful Kae- that is a move in the right direction! Sometimes meetings are necessary. But way less frequently than people think they are.

By: Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 11:33:02 +0000

In reply to Sarah K. @Sarah K - unfortunately, I haven't had good sleepers, though two of the four older children were worse than the others. I was hoping this little guy would be a dream. I mean you can hope, right? The last few nights were better though.

By: Nina

Nina — Sun, 31 May 2020 17:31:37 +0000

Good luck with the sleep Laura. Having Dad sleep with baby and only bring him in for feeds definitely helped me get more sleep when bfing my little ones. I’m afraid both mine slept worse after introducing solids. I waited until 6 months which is the advice here in England. Fingers crossed for you.

By: Sarah K

Sarah K — Sun, 31 May 2020 14:25:39 +0000

My kids never slept through the night until they were weaned. It sounds like you’ve had good sleepers so far but maybe not this time? Uggggg…. those nights of waking up multiple times is so wearing.

By: Molly Beck

Molly Beck — Sat, 30 May 2020 17:22:25 +0000

I LOVED this entrepreneurship education article you wrote! My major in college that I declared in December of my senior year of high school was Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management. That’s exactly what I do today, starting and running a podcasting software company 🙂 I feel like I am part of the small percentage of people whose major they chose at age 17 is exactly what they do at age 33! Along the way I picked up a second major in Finance, but honestly only remember my Entrepreneurship classes as being the most helpful…making many business plans, testing ideas, learning how to hire people, pricing strategy, etc. Many of the other students in my major were part of family businesses and knew they would be taking over the “family business” at some point in their life. We had the best class discussions. It was fascinating!

By: Grateful Kae

Grateful Kae — Sat, 30 May 2020 11:57:36 +0000

My employer recently in the last couple of years really shifted the focus to minimizing unnecessary meetings and sort of revamping that whole arena.

We have been able to decrease our team “huddles” to only once a month (which is appropriate for my department) instead of twice a month, and there were at least two other monthly meetings that I used to attend that really had very little value to my role personally. After those were cut out, I now have at LEAST an extra 3-5 hours per month to do other more effective work. Doesn’t sound like a ton, but that’s potentially up to 60 hours a year!! I can get a lot of real work done in 60 hours. 🙂

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Sat, 30 May 2020 10:02:05 +0000

Have you considered early introduction to solids? The whole “just for fun till age 1″thing seems to be specific to America. That’s not the advice here (Ireland). I did early solids with both my babies with first tastes from 17 weeks and by 7 months they were both on 3 solid meals and 3 milk feeds a day. Both slept through the night from the time they were getting a decent amount of solids.