Forum of the Month - April 2009 - Parenting by Working Moms

Dear IL'ites,

Forum for April 2009 is :

Parenting by working moms - IndusLadies

With due respect to all the mothers out there in the world, it is an unsaid fact that "Every Mom is a Working Woman". But just that the mothers who work outside the home too has special challenges and concerns in her juggling act of balancing family and career. So go ahead and throw your valuable suggestions, tips, interesting anecdotes that helps this balancing a little easier.

Ladies ensure that the thread is lively calling for active participation from other ILites.

Are you new to the IL community? Want to know more about this contest?

Read here to know rules and guidelines for the "Popular Thread Contest" in the Forum of the month.

Some do's and don'ts to be followed for this contest:
DOs:

1. Make your contributions for this contest ONLY in the Parenting by working moms - IndusLadies forum (NOT in this thread or forum).
2. ONLY new threads started this month - April 2009 that get popular with max responses and participation from other members will be considered.
3. Avoid thread on generic discussions like "Challenges", "balancing" etc. Those threads on generic discussions will not be considered
4. ONLY specific discussions qualify for the contest like 'Managing your time", 'How to approach your employer for maternity leave?' 'How do you spend your weekends with your kids?' etc.
5. The threads should be started about parenting challenges/ tips of a working mother that will call for participation from co-members to share thoughts about the same.

DON'Ts:

1. No posting (copy-pasting) articles or information from other sources (like websites, books, magazines, emails etc.).

Get started with a popular thread...Good Luck!

Have a look at the special gift here for Deepali who won the Popular thread contest for the month of March 2009 in the Cleaning & organizing forum.

 

Dear ILites,

Thanks to all of you for making the

Parenting by working moms - IndusLadies

a very active forum with your active participation.

The winner for the Popular thread in the said forum is

vennela1

who started the thread :

http://www.indusladies.com/forums/parenting-by-working-moms/55611-sending-kids-to-india.html

and it has 9 replies with 216 views. Thanks Vennela for sharing your dilemma in this thread and geting help from fellow ILites. Am sure there might be a lot of ladies out there who were in the same boat and have got wonderful advice and to be open about the situation they are in.

Ladies, join in congratulating Vennela1 who has won this contest and making the Parenting by working Mom forum a lively hub of participation.