Frenchparents Blog: For Parents with an interest in the French Culture

On my previous posts on what life would be like in a society where raising children were truly considered an important task and where the idea that women or men do not have to do this full time or permanently to do it well, here are two pieces of news:

• One is the YummymummyCareers site out of Canada (my home and not native land)

Based on the great idea that moms who dropped out of work to better care for their children ( and keep some sanity on their lives) may just feel the need to go back to wortk after the wee years of their children (say till age 3), this site offers jobs targeted at them - which do NOT include changing diapers.

Bravo! I don’t know how many years it’ll take for this sort of initiative to come to France. Seems they still think here that once you stop working, you’re out for good and have nothing to say for that time spent managing a difficult crowd aged 0 plus a few years…

However to me there’s a need for this sort of service here too. I had thought of this previously as a way for small to medium entreprises ( or even large ones) to get experts on a regular and part time basis.

These companies cannot afford to hire full time the high caliber MarCom or Finance pros that were many of the moms that chose family life over career development. And those moms may not feel the need to go back to work full time, especially in high stress, big corporation situations. However they’d be highly interested in adding value, insight and expertise to developping companies who need these skills.

• Other piece of news is I’ve noticed the San Francisco Chronicle site has a blog for parents, very humourously called The Poop!

I’d suggested this sort of feature in a previous post, which was actually written in 2000 and reposted here recently and their initiative probably has nothing to do with my suggestion but still it’s nice to see I ’saw the future ‘? I see the first Poop posts are from July 2006, so I was a few years ahead, ey?

Thanks Chronicle, for being ahead of the game ( and catering to us as an audience) as well…

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