The Working Daughter Manifesto
How do we do it all? This is how we balance eldercare, career, and life.
On Pity Parties, Panicking and Power Anthems
Last week sucked. 1 trip to the Genius Bar 2 crying episodes in public 3 trips to local computer recovery experts 4 tech support calls 5 new pieces of equipment 6 hours of configuring a new laptop 7 days without a computer But it wasn’t just the broken computer, it was everything. Or was it? […]
Maybe This Is Why Our Parents Reject Our Help
It is so frustrating when our parents don’t accept our help or listen to our advice, isn’t it? We expect our teenagers not to listen to us, but our parents, shouldn’t they know better? It doesn’t seem so. Almost daily, a member of the Working Daughter community expresses their extreme frustration that their parent won’t […]
The Working Daughter Guide To Hospital Stays
As a Working Daughter, chances are high that at some point you will have to support your parent through a hospital stay – planned or unplanned. No fear! We have compiled all of our advice about hospital stays into this handy guide. Did you just get “the call?” Maybe your life was moving along at […]
The Working Daughter Guide to Summer
Summertime. The livin’ may be easy, but the life of a working daughter is not. Still, you can make the most of the warm weather and long days. And to help you, we’ve compiled this roundup of articles to help you plan a vacation, or a daycation, balance your kids’ needs with your parents’ needs, […]
8 Daycation Ideas for Working Daughters
Working Daughter you need a vacation. I know. I know. You can’t make it happen. There’s work and care, and care, and work and bills. Besides, the stress of planning for a vacation feels like it outweighs the benefit of actually taking one, right? Okay then don’t take a full-fledged vacation. But promise me, you’ll […]
6 Surprisingly Simple Ways to Make Your Workplace More Caregiver-Friendly
No doubt, the American workplace could use a serious overhaul when it comes to accommodating the fact workers have lives outside of the job. The United States, after all, is the only country in the developed world without a national maternity leave policy and one of thirteen countries in the world that does not guarantee […]
A Call to Include Eldercare in the Paid Leave Conversation
The frustrating news: too often conversations about the need for paid leave focus only on parenting and omit eldercare. The good news: The Family And Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act, sponsored by Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, legislation that would create a national family and medical leave insurance […]
No, Caring For Your Parents Is Not “Parenting”
Caring for an aging parent is often referred to as a role reversal when the parent becomes the child and the adult child becomes the parent. It’s an understandable analogy; adult children are often called on to help their parents with activities of daily living like bathing, dressing and feeding. If a parent has cognitive […]
8 Tips for Caring for Someone with Incontinence
This is sponsored content written by me in partnership with Depend® brand. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Lookout for a special offer from Depend brand at the end of this post. “A hidden condition that is secreted by many and often feared due to loss of independence and quality of life.” This is […]
Despite the Stress, Caregiving ‘Very Meaningful’
In the Working Daughter community, we talk about how two different things can be true at the same time. Like when a sibling finally steps up and helps out with caregiving but… struggles with it. We may be grateful for the support, but also gratified that they are finally experiencing our daily challenges. Or, we […]
6 Reasons To Practice Self-Care
Yeah, yeah, we know. The term self-care has become almost as trite as the term “girl boss.” Self-care is used to describe everything from getting a mammogram to spoiling ourselves with a trip to Sephora. So what exactly is self-care? In Psych Central, self-care is defined as, “any activity that we do deliberately in order […]
Review: In-Home Medication Manager from Hero
One of the first stressors I felt as a working daughter was helping my mother manage her 14 different medications. For a long time she managed her own medication, sorting her pills into one of those plastic pill organizers she bought at CVS. Over time, managing her own medication became overwhelming and she wanted help. […]