Working Mother of the Year Awards
Mother of the year awards are great. I'm sure we've all earned one or two during the course of motherhood. Working mothers deserve awards all their own. We try to balance work and home, and most of us fall on our face a few times. Do you know a working mom that deserves one of these awards?
Best use of your mom skills to get employees in line.
You know you're a working mother of the year if you can use the same strategies to influence your employees, as you do to influence your teenagers. Some of the best managers use what they have learned by being parents to successfully lead their teams.
There is a very delicate line you must not cross when you're parenting at work. Things not to do include making employees hug and make up after resolving conflict. It is also not a good idea to tell your employee that they are not too big to get a spanking.
Smoothest cover up to baby goop covered clothes.
What working mom hasn't noticed that bit of baby goop on her clothes after she has already gotten to work? Whether it was the spit-up on the shoulder or the strained peas on your pants, you deserve this working mother award if you covered it up with class.
Successful strategies include wearing it with pride and giving a challenging look to anyone who glances at you strangely. Doing the bathroom wash off and hiding the wet spot until it dries. Playing 'cover the spot' by strategically holding things over the goop at all times during the day.
Most creative electronic communication sent by your child.
Who doesn't find it adorable to get an email from a toddler? Actually, probably everyone that was on your mass email last week. Who cares, we think it is cute! This award goes to all of the working moms that have had technological woopsies curtsey of their sweet children.
While working at the help desk I had the pleasure of working with a number of these working mother of the year award winners. The one that stands out the most for me is the mom who brought her laptop in for repair. She brought along a spare keyboard and wasn't looking to get her laptop keyboard fixed. Even after we offered her free repair of her laptop keyboard, she refused. She explained that after a minute of unsupervised use, her darling toddler managed to pull off every key.
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Post a CommentGreat page, thanks Loki:0)
Nice article and that's a great photo!
ha :)
A toddler pulling all of the keys off of a keyboard sounds like a budding engineer!
Ha - I once got an instant msg from my girlfriend that said "I love ice cream!" - so I wrote back and said, "Me, too" and then, the reply "Do you have sum?" I realized it wasn't her, but her little boy playing on her machine. Later she called me to say, "I'm sorry" and I told her, "Are you kidding me? I'll be talking about this for years! Here I am, still laughing about it! Cheers :)