Guest Blogger
Kristen Bischoff
Kirsten Bischoff is Founding Partner of HATCHEDit.com, a free, organization tool that includes a family calendar, an address book, updating news feeds, and a place to curate all that is important in your life. A collaborative dashboard, it gives families the ability to fluidly communicate important information to the people that assist them (grandparents, babysitters, au pairs, spouses, and children).
A graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, she has spent most of her career entrenched in the highly entertaining world of…finance. Kirsten gained operational experience running internal operations at a hedge fund startup that grew to $1bn in assets, and then spent 3 years as an Executive Assistant at BlackRock. She most recently toiled as Senior Editor for an online financial news publication, and is currently a contributor for Forbes.com. She lives in Springfield, NJ and when she is not working on HATCHEDit.com, can usually be found playing chauffer to her over-scheduled twelve-year-old daughter Sophie.
Back To School Tips: Stress-free Clothes Shopping
Back to School can be a stressful time. According to our survey of Moms most families in 2012 will be focused on ways to cut back and make every dollar stretch further than it has ever before. When faced with outgoing expenses for afterschool activities, school supplies, and new clothes, we found that this year [...]
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Back To School Tips: Helping Your Child Set Goals for the Semester
“There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” Henry Ford Back to school is an exciting time for everyone. Nothing makes us feel quite as focused as crisp new notebooks and fresh pencils. Taking advantage of our children’s enthusiasm of a new school year and all it has to offer [...]
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Back To School Tips: Getting a Handle on Afterschool Activities
As we enter this busy back-to-school season with just a few nods of the head you may find that suddenly you need another income and a time machine in order to meet the commitments of your childís after-school life. Below are five tips for building a family schedule that everyone can live with.
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