Word: stress
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Much of that stress, of course, comes from spending hours in stores looking for gifts soon forgotten, beating off crowds, whipping out plastic. According to a Yankelovich poll, some 70% of people claim that their favorite part of Christmas is being with family and friends; only 3% vote for holiday-gift shopping. Yet shopping is what nearly everyone does, buying more than 33 million trees and $184 billion worth of gifts...
...Waggoner family--Laila, Ben and their three children--"swear by the always snowy Nub's Nob and its low-key attitude. "You never feel the stress that you feel at other ski areas," says Laila. During their Christmas vacations, they have tried it all: rental homes, hotels and condos www.nubsnob.com) Now they have their own vacation home minutes from the resort so they can play host to their extended family for the holidays...
...found that leaving her job was wrenching. "I felt as if I was letting women down by pulling myself out of the workforce," she says. And she misses the affirmation of evaluations and pay raises. For now, though, the loss of those rewards is offset by her relief from stress. "I didn't know my children very well before. I saw them only at their worst time. I would get home at dinnertime. I would cram food into their mouths, and I would put them to bed. I never got to see the good moments, only the tired, cranky ones...
...suburban Chicago kept flooding into her home life. When her sister-in-law, who had been caring for Menachof's two kids, began to reconsider the arrangement three years ago, the solution suddenly seemed clear: "It hit me that I wanted to be home. I couldn't handle the stress anymore, and I wanted to be with my kids." Her husband was a self-employed lawyer with an unpredictable income, and she was carrying the health insurance. But she did the math and figured they could make it--frugally--without her salary...
...many dual-career families, both parents are victims of what Williams calls "the great American speedup." The resulting stress falls disproportionately on mothers, who continue to shoulder the majority of child care and housework. When pressures reach the bursting point, married mothers, who earn 69% of what married fathers earn and may face gender-based hurdles to reaching their full professional potential, opt to reduce or eliminate their paid work...