Could children actually help your career and professional life? I know, it sounds unlikely, if not impossible. From the “mommy track” to off ramping, downshifting or just disappearing, the primary cultural and media story that we hear is that family sidetracks (or de-rails) a woman’s career. As the best selling author Chimamanda Adichie discusses in…

My husband and I both work full time outside of home. We have one son, now in first grade. A couple of years ago we began a tradition in our little family that my parents actually started with me and my four siblings: date night. No, not date night for mom and dad. Date night…