Comments on Chief Family Officer: Work/Life Balance (or Blog/Life Balance)

I think the one obvious commonality here is that w...

2008-06-24T21:17:04.733-07:00

I think the one obvious commonality here is that we all struggle with this issue from time to time. Mercedes, I think you make an excellent point that everyone has a different balancing point and I agree that it's probably the root cause of much of the mommy wars.

Thanks for posting this! I had always considered b...

2008-06-22T06:34:46.835-07:00

Thanks for posting this! I had always considered blogging to be one of the things I did for *me*. However, lately I'm finding myself struggling more and more to find the balance that I had that allowed me to do so. As more and more responsibility is put upon me at work I find myself with increased hours. I also find that the balance that my husband and I had has also changed when he took on new job in the fall of 2007.

Periodically I find myself wondering if I could afford to stay home.

It has really been a struggle in the past year to continue that balance. I find that it comes and goes but never remains constant.

I think the key is in striking that balance and th...

2008-06-21T05:57:40.505-07:00

I think the key is in striking that balance and the key to that lies on each person. Your balance is not the same as mine. That's why I think there is also a lot of mommy wars regarding WOH/SAH. But we need to understand everyones needs are not like our own and accept them.

I was also sad to see a couple of bloggers suddenly quit blogging. Blogging does take a lot of work and it's very easy to feel overwhelmed if you are not able to strike that balance. I think that maybe scaling back on how much they blogged would have worked for them. But again their balance is different from mine, so probably even that didn't work for them.

Networking is everything, but I do think you need ...

2008-06-20T19:58:41.935-07:00

Networking is everything, but I do think you need to find a balance. Reading the story about the mom who worked 2150 hours last year breaks my heart. To me that doesn't seem like it leaves enough family time but that is just me. I think each individual has to decide what they are comfortable with because there is no universal right answer.