CT Working Moms

Created in 2011, CT Working Moms (CTWM) is an award-winning, online community for women balancing work and family life in Connecticut. The website provides critical resources and information ranging from pregnancy and child-care to health and nutrition. Twenty six bloggers write weekly with the goal of talking honestly about how it really is to be a working mom in our modern world. CTWM’s aims to be a place of compassion and support for all moms because the world needs more love and less judgment - and that's exactly why the site created their Campaign for Judgement-Free Motherhood.

CTWorkingMoms has been seen on a wide variety of media outlets including Good Morning America, the TODAY Show, the VIEW, NBC CT, FOX CT and more.

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Gun Safety MomsRising

June 16, 2016

By Pamela Deiter-Sands, Connecticut My son with the camera, always watching the world: he shows me things and tells me things that stop me in my tracks. He asked if I'd heard about the boy who texted his mother from the club in Orlando, "I love you mom." I started crying a little and said yes, I had. His eyes started blazing and he said angrily "See mom, your generation, you cry about shootings. My generation got trained in school. We learned to hide in a cupboard or a closet and be quiet in case somebody wants to come to our school and kill us. We had to learn about this stuff. We have to be...

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Family Economic Security

July 16, 2014

By Elise Schreier , Blogger for CTWorkingMoms.com A friend of mine recently published an article in the Washington Post ( This is what happened . ..) about her experience using food stamps via the WIC program. Her decent into poverty was a swift one, and the image so vividly painted in the article is of her arriving to pick up WIC checks in a Mercedes. Her story has elicited a highly-charged response full of both criticism and praise but, at the core, it is a call for non-judgment. A reminder of how any one of us could have found ourselves in those shoes – and being poor does not come with an...

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February 24, 2014

Moms for Moms Day will be Tuesday, March 4th and will celebrate judgment free motherhood.

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Open Flexible Work Family Economic Security

September 20, 2013

Listen-up employers of America…I’m going to give you five reasons why you should hire more of us – the women who want to work, yet need to be at school for pick-up at three o’clock.

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April 3, 2013

By Jen Seiderer for CTWorkingMoms.com “I find it kind of ironic that on the news they are discussing if teachers should be armed with guns at school to potentially save lives, yet we can’t get them armed with EpiPens to save lives.” This comment appeared in one of my food allergy (FA) support groups last night. It took me back to the days immediately after the Sandy Hook School shooting, when, along with everyone else, my FA mamas and I were horrified and devastated. Beyond that initial shock and horror, though, was something I’d never thought of before: What additional precautions would I...

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December 19, 2012

Piece Written by Jillian Gilchrest , blogger for CTWorkingMoms and resident of Connecticut What a weekend. What a week. Such a horrible act of violence has shook us all and flipped life on it’s head. My heart goes out to the families, the teachers, the Newtown community, first responders, elected officials, mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, and friends. It’s a dark time, but the love and strength coming to and from Connecticut has been amazing. I was so moved by Sunday night’s gathering-people coming together in love and respect to support and honor one another. And I so appreciated...

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Environmental Health

November 29, 2012

Before my days as the “crazy chemical lady,” I figured that most things sold for use by children are tested for safety in all areas. As long as I steered clear of cheaply made Dollar Store finds I could sleep at night knowing that my kids were not being exposed to hazards such as lead, cadmium, and other carcinogenic materials. I was wrong.

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Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

November 2, 2012

Connecticut is beginning work to develop a Family and Medical leave insurance program that can provide much needed relief to families and businesses. Employees get sick, aging parents need assistance, and families want to spend time with their newborns. We can learn a lot from the experiences of California and New Jersey as we make plans in Connecticut.

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September 27, 2012

My friend and I were talking recently about what we would consider to be the best kid age. Now, I have a 6, 2, and 1-year-old so I’ve been through many of the early childhood stages at least once. And yet, I’m still at a loss for what I’d consider my favorite. Let’s do a little recap, shall we?

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September 14, 2012

“’I am not very present in the rest of my life. My wife’s very patient. She does everything,’ he shares. ‘If I have time, I try to spend time with the kids, even if just to be a physical presence, the bath, whatever.’

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Childcare & Early Education

August 31, 2012

Many times, I’ve walked my neighborhood with my kids and though I see lots of playscapes in backyards, I never see kids playing outside. EVER. I occasionally see some kids get off the bus after school, but once they go inside, they are GONE. Are there really so few kids living near us? Or are they all holed up inside, tied to their electronic devices? My boys and I would linger in the cul-de-sacs on all the nearby streets, playing and making a lot of noise, hoping some kids would wander out. Nope, never happened.

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Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

August 16, 2012

A great piece that investigates Generation X's feelings about "having it all." Written by Melanie Dunn CT Working Moms Blogger Every day, moms-to-be scour the blogosphere for confirmation that when they someday choose to become pregnant, have their babies, and go about the task of raising them while working in a professional career, they will go on to be fabulous parents and fabulous career women, and that although things may be a bit different, for the most part life will go on as usual. So if you are one of those women and you have just stumbled upon this post, I am telling you right now...

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Chilling Words from My 15-Year-Old Son in Connecticut

Teaching Children About Poverty

Moms for Moms Day - March 4th

An Open Letter to the Employers of America

The anxiety of food allergies at school

Time to Engage - We Can Do Better.

Cleaner Living: Non-Toxic Toys for the Holidays

An Idea is Brewing in CT: Family & Medical Leave Insurance

The Best Age

News flash: Ben Affleck doesn’t want to be an SAHD

Playborhood Party

Yep, Having Kids Will Hurt Your Career