I once got into an argument with my mother because she smugly parallel parked and asked, "Can you do that yet?"
Confused, I responded, "Yes. Why?"
"Well, you couldn't used to. Remember when you took your driver's test?"
"When I was 17? You're aware I'm now well into my thirties, correct?"
Check out this great piece from The Motherlode:
"But even when we’re the ones wrestling with our own parents’ dated vision, we current parents don’t think often enough about whether we’re already boxing our children in."
via Let Children Change - NYTimes.com.
Work puts food on the table and travel is often inevitable, so, in that spirit, I give you some of the upsides, if, like me, you need a little help spinning it.
The cognitive burdens my husband had been shouldering had been largely invisible to me, and the same had been true for him. Here's how to make a change.
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