Does having a second kid destroy your “grown-up” social life?
Categories: child care, time management


with Leah
Hi. I'm Leah and I'm expecting my first baby in
December. I've often called my career as a book editor my "dream job," but
the closer I get to my son's arrival, the more I'm open to revising that
definition, especially once I'm in the thick of trying to balance
full-time, first-time motherhood with a part-time office job.
Check out my profile on Work It, Mom! and my personal blog, A Girl and a Boy.
Categories: child care, time management
It’s a familiar scene: A mother drops off her child at daycare. She kisses him, tells him to be good and to have fun, and turns to the door with a convincing smile. But before she pulls out of the parking lot, and maybe even before she gets the key in the ignition, she’s a mess of tears. How can she leave her child with somebody else all day, day after day, while she goes to work? What is she going to miss while she’s gone? Will her kid even miss her? What’s the emotional price of that extra paycheck? The guilt, oh the guilt.
Maybe this mom is you. Or maybe, like me, your guilt is made of entirely different stuff–stuff you don’t hear about as often because, even within the working-mom community, the overall sentiment is borderline taboo…
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