The selection of Sarah Palin guarentees a working parent with young children will be spending time in the White House starting next year. Barack Obama and his wife ... the obstacles for women (and parents in general) in the workplace. While the candidates themselves are working parents, I have heard little said about how challenging it is to raise their children while working in ...

When you get down to it, the issues that confront working parents boil down to just a few things: work load/hours, childcare, family time, finances, preparing meals and housekeeping. Oh, the housekeeping. Or, sometimes the lack of housekeeping. Often, there's literally just not enough hours in the day to do the house work that needs doing, [...]

... with out of control kids, and I know many people who've raised their children on their own and didn't even know where the next meal would come from. Being a parent is about values, courtesy, and persistence and many other things that I'm STILL learning. I have been ... parents aren't at home to lead their kids", etc. GARBAGE!!!Join me in the "Working Parent" roll call! My mom worked 40+ hours a week ...

... has dedicated decades of hard work to making the world safer for working mothers -- boy, does this set us up for a bruising. Is Palin showing family values? ... person be in the Palin family, which has a pregnant teenager, a Down Syndrome infant, and three other kids? Only after I find out will I cast my vote for Working Parent of the Year. Read more analysis from HuffPost bloggers on Sarah Palin ...

... the Minneapolis Convention Center, where Templeton is elbow deep in boxes, working to fill care packages that soon will be on their way to people affected by Hurricane Gustav ... is opposed to abortion and models herself as a "hockey mom," an everyday working parent who former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee believes gives her a strong connection to most American women."What ...

... of dusting, vacuuming, and picking up ones abodeTo the new parent this is a herculean task that requires teamwork and several consecutive days, at least if both are working. In our case, we pick up 2x ... away from home and the rigors of one's job for a purely entertaining reason.To a new parent this is any time that one actually exits the premises of the house. For example, yesterday I went out and ...