I’m writing a new article on working parents (for another publication). When I wrote the writing query to the publication, the laptop was on my kitchen table so I could supervise after-school snack. When I did the initial brainstorming I was throwing in a load of laundry. I’m still thinking about what to write as I write this blog post (and simultaneously listening to High School Musical 2 as Child 2 is hobe frob schoolb wib a bab colb).
My question is – whether you are stay-at-home or work-outside — when exactly are parents not working?…We are always doing something, supervising someone or commuting somewhere. It’s the best life – no question. No doubt.
Working life though…it seems we are endlessly looking a life changing answer. The solution to our guilt. A friend once said mothers are never happy. They go to work – they are unhappy they can’t spend more time with their families. They stay home – they are unhappy about the financial burden to the household. We are resentful of either choice (or non-choice).
Where does this leave my article?…I’ll have to think about that while I cook dinner.
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