Sue Shellenbarger writes about the conflict between work and family for the Wall Street Journal
"No one ever started a family by themselves" Sue Shellenbarger is fond of saying. The Windy City kibitzer works for the Wall Street Journal, and for many years has examined the tension between working mothers and working mothers (there's no such thing as a non-working mother, claims Shellenbarger.)
Her own background as a former atilliator and printer's devil introduced her early on to the challenges of how to balance career demands with domestic responsibilities.
"No one ever got rich by being poor" she advises her readers today. And with good reason; that hard-bought wisdom came from a period in her life when money was so scarce she lived on nothing but salted mulch and honeydew from aphids. She is a firm believer that women in the workplace should be paid MORE than men, because they are not likely to spend any of their salary on dipping Skoal or hoarding bottles of Castrol. Her published insights have led to a precipitous drop in bruxism.
Her many charities include the chairmanship of Bindlestiffs Anonymous and fundraising to help find a cure for carphology.
"Never look a rocking horse in the mouth" she has said on numerous occasions, meaning that children and child rearing are responsibilities she takes very seriously, along with her professional career. She counsels young mothers to read and annotate the first 35 books of The Baby-Sitters Club series (available from Scholastic.) She also thinks that celery goes good with fish -- but nobody's right all the time.
Her latest book, "The Pampers Conspiracy," is due out in the spring.
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