Salt Lake City - Utah
Ember Conley is an Educator, a social-emotional expert, a child champion, and a change agent in the Salt Lake City, Utah area.
29 articles
Many of motherhood’s challenges remain unseen and unacknowledged. Stay-at-home mothers give up careers and put their goals on hold to take care of their children. Working moms have to juggle both home...
When it comes to being a new parent, there are rarely any easy answers. No matter what you do, there will always be someone telling you that you should do it differently. It gets tiring, but we're hap...
They are nicknamed the Terrible Twos for a good reason; toddlers aged 18 months to three years can be difficult to parent as they navigate the world and their quest for independence. This often leads...
The memes posted on social media, the staggering number of women who left the workforce and a venting-hotline set up for moms by The New York Times showed just some of the that moms faced during the p...
As a married father, keeping your house clean should be as much your job as your wife's. Sadly, this is lost on a lot of men. Too many men still see most "domestic" chores as a woman's work, a notion...
When starting a family and welcoming a new family member into the world, parenting is one skill you cannot afford to not have or ignore, and for a good reason. The ability to tend and care for a newbo...
Approximately one in four Americans may be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, but so far that only accounts for adults. As of right now, there is no COVID vaccine available for children under the age...
Encouraging a child's love of reading begins at an early age. Many different popular and award-winning books are available and appropriate for a child's understanding from the age of infancy upward. B...
Society doesn’t make it easy to raise strong, confident daughters. Our children face a constant barrage of harmful beauty standards and mixed messages. Girls should be leaders but not too bossy. They...
So, what exactly is the difference between sheltering and protecting your children? Sheltering is the point at which protection becomes out of control. This can mean not allowing your child to play ou...
At one time, PBS stations were the only option for finding educational TV shows. Today, a number of mainstream channels offer more choices. Individuals subscribing to Netflix find dozens of kid-approp...
As pediatric obesity continues to rise in the United States, it’s more apparent than ever these days that one of the most important things a parent can do for their child is to raise them in an enviro...
With many young women in the workforce, maternity leave has become a topic of interest. In fact, since many of those who are starting jobs have plans for a family, they seriously consider a maternity...
In spite of ongoing legislation and discussions around the gap in gender pay, there is still a sizable difference between what men and women in the same industries are paid. In addition, sectors in wh...
Hungry for a new job? Maybe your current job is boring or you don’t like your boss. Either way, a change of scenery might be nice and it would probably bring a nice pay raise. 70% of jobs are found th...
Mentoring programs are becoming more popular in virtually every industry and for good reasons. First, mentees are 68% more likely to stay with an employer for five years or more. Secondly, mentees are...
For the longest time, women have been looking for the best jobs that do not just fulfill them financially but psychologically as well. This means great working conditions and smaller pay gaps between...
The rightly constructed resume can be the difference between getting an interview and being completely ignored by a company. Women in particular face various issues that can hurt them when building th...
The traditional workplace settings deprived women of the top spots, especially in decision making. For instance, if a man and a woman suggested anything, the man's proposal would be accepted prior to...
Employability comes down to how well individuals can communicate their worth, instead of how much education foundation or tutoring they have Claire Kim comment. It additionally comes down to how quick...
The pandemic has affected everyone in some way, but the so-called “sandwich generation”- those between the ages of 30-60, seem to be feeling the effects even more. This generation is tasked with the d...
While many adult lives revolve around work and family, it can be challenging to find a balance between the two. Some are people all work and no play, yet others fail to deliver as an employee because...
Women are instrumental to their workplaces, even though in some places they have to fight age-old stereotypes. Regardless of not whether they are in a leadership position, women in every workplace hav...
Finding the right balance between your career and your family has never been easy, but the coronavirus lockdowns have made it even harder to draw that line. The first rule for keeping that line separa...
The so-called sandwich generation is getting squeezed on both sides by the competing responsibilities of growing children and aging parents. Because of these dual pressures from the outside, sometimes...
While many people do become addicted to opioids as the result of trying to manage real physical pain, younger adults and teens often build up to opioid addiction. Teens, in particular, begin using oth...
The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in lockdowns that have left many people working from home. For single parents, this situation has become especially stressful. In addition to their work tasks, they’...
Although the COVID-19 has meant quarantines, lifestyle changes, health tricks, and financial hardships, it has also highlighted how strong communities can be when thoughtful and caring people work tog...
Work-life balance is one of the biggest challenges for many workers today. That’s arguably been the case since email became common in the late 1990s. Freelancers and talent agents certainly deal with...
