Occupation: Author
Our perception of time is indeed our reality..
The best thing a society can do is ensure its children are taken care of..
A gift, like a good friend drawing a personal road map out of the crazy busy swirl of our overloaded lives..
Busyness has become such a social value that we will even create it, we will create that sense of breathlessness because we think that's how we show ….
The prejudice is against men and women - assuming men stay at work. That's the reason why we don't have enough women in the halls of power - the prej….
I'm optimistic. I really believe people in power want to do the right thing..
What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it..
Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts..
There are new studies showing that young men and men with more progressive views of what a father should be - which is not just a helper and fun pare….
On a personal level, I do a "brain dump" where everything that's in my head that needs doing gets written down. It gives your brain a rest. And then ….
We live in a really crazy time when there is information coming at you, and there are so many demands on your time. It really comes down to choosing ….
But the majority of mothers work - and are responsible for taking care of the kids and home. And more fathers are spending more time doing child care….
Even when men do more housework and child care, a lot of times it's still women in charge, delegating, so you have all that noise in your brain. You'….
I take solace in knowing that some of the steps I took can help other people..
The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers..
As long as you're pushing men to stay at work, you're pushing women to stay home..
What's happening now with technology is we live with very porous boundaries. All those little interruptions fragment our time and attention and make ….
I was afraid that I would find out that I didn't work hard, that I wasn't a very good mother. I was feeling so inadequate in everything I did. I was ….
If you had the perception that you are very stressed out then your grey matter was fully 20 per cent smaller in volume than people who did not have t….
As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative..
It's incredibly painful to think back to the time I had to come back to work. I was so, so needed at home. Like the vast majority of people in Americ….