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Continue reading →: Family-Friendly SF Bay Area Neighborhoods & School Insights 2025Deciding which parts of the Bay Area to settle down is a hotly debated area, and the discussion usually depends on each individual, couple, and family’s preferences and priorities. In the past fifteen years, I have had the opportunity to live in Berkeley, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Danville. Like…
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Continue reading →: Work-Life Balance for Parents: Choosing Between Startups and Stable CompaniesI often hear from people that if you want work-life balance (WLB), you need to work at a larger company that has a more or less 9-5 job. This advice especially resonates with parents with young children who are juggling family and career. My coworker, who recently came back from maternity leave, left for…
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Continue reading →: Top 3 after-school pick-up options for full-time working momsAs my preschool-aged son will start Pre-K and Kindergarten in a year or two, I am starting to put together an after-school pick-up plan. Pre-K and Kindergarten hours run from 8am to 11:45am, and elementary school goes until 2:30pm, which isn’t much better. As a full-time employee, I can’t just…
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Continue reading →: Transitioning from a Nanny to Daycare: Our Bay Area Family ExperienceLike all good things, they always come to an end. We hired a nanny who could take care of our now toddler daughter for a pre-determined timeframe. And our time to part ways has come. But we weren’t ready to part ways since our daughter wouldn’t start daycare for another…
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Continue reading →: Return to Office (RTO) and Career Decisions: My IBM Experience and Lessons LearnedRTO isn’t new. At least the term isn’t new to me, as I was ‘called’ back into the office in my mid-20s during my time at IBM, a corporation that was a pioneer in telecommuting since the 1970s. Many of my co-workers from various business units lived across the country—East Coast cities…
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Continue reading →: The Fate of the WFH in the SF Bay AreaWork from home (WFH) vs. return to the office (RTO) has been a hotly debated topic even before the Covid-19 pandemic struck. Past experience with RTO I still remember when IBM called all their remote marketing employees to relocate to the 5 main hubs/offices. These employees needed to relocate to…
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Continue reading →: Organic vs. Non-Organic: Which One is Best?The creation of this post was sparked by a brief conversation I had with a Costco employee. I was picking out a hand of bananas, a convenient and super affordable staple for my kids, next to a Costco employee. He reminds me that I am picking out regular bananas and…
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Continue reading →: The Stroller I ended up choosingIn a previous post, I laid out all the different types of baby strollers that come up when parents are researching for a new stroller in the SF Bay Area. It can be overwhelming to sort through stroller reviews, features, and brand recommendations. At the end of the day, a stroller is a stroller.…
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