It's been a month of challenges filled with mom- mentous changes as our staff transitioned from our shared office space to our home offices and prepares for our November 7th Women's Leadership Conference: Achieving Extraordinary.
As we march forward and embrace change, we're excited to offer a limited time Mom-mentum membership discount, join Mom-mentum before November 1st (using the code Mom25) and get 1/2 off membership and discount admission to our Women's Leadership Conference. YES -- only $25 to join our initiative and support mothers!
Best wishes!
Alison LaFerlita,
Executive Director
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 10 True Things About the 1st Year of Parenthood... And you thought you knew everything! No one or thing can prepare you for parenting like experiencing it for yourself. In this post GirlOfCardigan.com blogger Karyn shares the 10 things she missed in all of the mom-to-be books she read before becoming a mommy. We enjoyed it and thought you would too! Read the full article here.
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 Webinar: Talking to Mom and Dad Addressing difficult topics with your aging parents Talking to your parents about age-related concerns can be difficult, at best. This webinar is designed to offer strategies for addressing a broad range of topics, including advance planning for emergency medical preferences, safety concerns and end-of-life decision making.
Get more details and register here.
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 Excellence In Workplace Effectiveness:
When Work Works Award Winners Mom-mentum is proud to be serving as the host organization for the Long Island region's participation in the When Work Works (formerly Alfred P. Sloan) Awards for Excellence in Business Effectiveness and Flexibility. This year's winners; BDO USA, LLP, Creative Plan Designs, Ltd and KPMG, LLP will be awarded at our Women's Leadership Conference: Achieving Extraordinary on November 7th. The three long island companies represent a variety of industries ranging from finance to health care. Most importantly, all are helping prove that effective and flexible workplace practices can work in organizations of all sizes. Join us in celebrating these cutting edge companies.
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 Public Policies and the Lives of Women Valerie Young Visits Toledo, Ohio Mom-mentum's Public Policy Analyst Valerie Young traveled to Toledo, Ohio on October 15th - 16th to help connect the dots between public policies and lives of mothers. The conversation was FREE, open to the public and focused on why mothers should be more involved as policy advocates and which policies most impact us as women. Valerie gave a formal evening presentation at Lourdes University (pictured to right) and continued the conversation the next day during a discussion-based gathering with Mothers' Center of Greater Toledo members. You can watch the powerful, informal conversation with Mothers' Center members here, and look for another video soon containing the full lecture at Lourdes University!
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 The iconic 1950s family consisting of the breadwinner father going off to work and caregiving mother keeping up the homefront, has been described by economists as the most efficient family structure. Everyone has a distinct job to do in their "separate spheres" of public and private life. In the 1950s, children may have been raised in such "typical" families. However, we all know that's not true anymore.
Read Brigid Schulte's full article on this topic here.
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