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BlackBerries for Breakfast: Tech Shakes Up the Morning Routine [Voices]

Though my own family might find it hard to believe, I don’t generally keep my BlackBerry on my nightstand overnight. I keep it in a bureau drawer, and the few seconds it takes in the morning to walk over there strike me as the difference between an ...

From JOHN J. EDWARDS III, All Things Digital,  12 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Dow Jones,  New York Times Company,  Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc,  Wall Street Journal

Gannett’s Unpaid Furlough: No Work Emails While On Leave

The company says the action is meant to avoid layoffs, but many of those employees will find it hard to get by with a loss of a weeks salary. Still, there may be something of a silver lining: stringent no-work rules that come with the furlough. But my ...

From JOHN J. EDWARDS III, Wall Street Journal,  15 Jan 2009

A Nation of Movers? More Americans Are Staying Put

The U.S. is famously a nation of movers, ready to uproot at a moments notice to chase dreams and opportunities across a vast continent. But that reputation seems to be smacking into a different reality these days. Census Bureau data released late last ...

From JOHN J. EDWARDS III, Wall Street Journal,  13 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Census Bureau,  Pew Research Center,  Paul Taylor

Tax Filing: Get It Done Early or Procrastinate?

The glow of Christmas lights is just fading, theres a layer of ice coating the Northeast–its time to start thinking about tax filing. Planning to get an early start is one thing, but we’ll still need to carve out some time to get everything organized. ...

From JOHN J. EDWARDS III, Wall Street Journal,  12 Jan 2009

Celebrating the New Year: With or Without the Kids?

Tonights a prime one for adults-only celebrations, as juggling parents scramble to secure babysitters or drop the kids with grandparents to enjoy a New Years Eve on the town. But others will forgo the scramble entirely and ring in 2009 with their kids ...

From JOHN J. EDWARDS III, Wall Street Journal,  31 Dec 2008

When Should You Introduce Kids to the News?

WSJ.com on choices and tradeoffs people make as they juggle work and family. When it comes to our 7-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son, so far my wife and I have taken the approach that no news is good news. That is to say, while we talked with ...

From JOHN J. EDWARDS III, Wall Street Journal,  30 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Digg,  Facebook Inc.

What Makes a Good Teacher?

A Brooklyn-dwelling colleague of mine, father of a preschooler, complained the other day that he and his friends already seem to converse about nothing but New York Citys Byzantine school bureaucracy and how to navigate it. What do you guys in the ...

From JOHN J. EDWARDS III, Wall Street Journal,  22 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Malcolm Gladwell

Cutting Back on Domestic Help During Tough Times

Juggling parents who employ nannies, babysitters or housekeepers know those workers are often crucial to keeping a familys life running smoothly. Yet they know, too, that such employees salaries tend to be among the familys largest recurring expenses, ...

From JOHN J. EDWARDS III, Wall Street Journal,  15 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Wall Street Journal

Should Parents Crack Down on Teasing?

Parents of young children spend a lot of time guarding against teasing in the playroom and on the playground. Parents of older children try to combat the more elaborate, and sometimes hurtful, forms of teasing that come with the tween and teen years. ...

From JOHN J. EDWARDS III, Wall Street Journal,  12 Dec 2008

How Does Your Family Divide Financial Duties?

Figuring out how to handle the family finances, especially during difficult economic times, is a big juggle challenge. But before deciding what to do about money, couples have to face the question of how to divide their budgetary responsibilities. ...

From JOHN J. EDWARDS III, Wall Street Journal,  8 Dec 2008

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