by Jackie Acho | Oct 29, 2013 | Fathers, Leadership, Mothers, Women in Science, Work Family Balance
My husband headed out of town this morning. I have important meetings and work to do. I have no backup childcare in place. You’ve been here, right? I bet your cortisol shot up just reading the title. What to do? Plan A: work through it. He’s probably old...
by Jackie Acho | Oct 24, 2013 | Culture, Early childhood, Empathy, Fathers, Feminist revolution, Identity, Motherhood, Mothers, Parenting, Women in Leadership, Work Family Balance
“Successful parenting is a principal key to the mental health of the next generation…In most societies throughout the world these facts have been and still are taken for granted and the societies organized accordingly. Paradoxically, it has taken the world’s richest...
by Jackie Acho | Oct 12, 2013 | Parenting, Uncategorized, Work Family Balance
Mother ducks are better leaders than many Fortune 500 CEOs. Chicks will risk life and limb following her across the busy streets of Boston. Would you do that for you boss? How about AFTER he/she steps out of the corner office? Do your leaders have a place in your...
by Jackie Acho | Jul 13, 2013 | Empathy, Fathers, Leadership, Parenting, Uncategorized, Work Family Balance
It’s Saturday morning – a good time to review and connect in cyberspace on issues that matter. The problem is that some of these debates further entrench us, rather than propel us to better solutions. Work/family balance is one of those, and I’m...
by Jackie Acho | Jun 17, 2013 | Empathy, Fathers, Leadership, Parenting, Uncategorized, Work Family Balance
Leaning into fatherhood is an investment the US does not make. That much is clear in study after study, no matter how we cut the data, as in this article by Emanuella Grinberg, CNN. The question is why? The answer is because we haven’t made the value/return on...
