Do you struggle with long work weeks? Lack of time to spend with your kids? Shuttling your kids from school to camp to other camp to your neighbors', so that you can get to your job? A lifestyle that seems too fast-paced for the health of our kids, and an economic picture that makes a slower pace seem impossible?
Do you wonder why it is this way? If it has to be this way? Do you crave a society with strong family values but cringe at that term because of all that it has become associated with?
As a parent faced with these challenges, I have felt the weight of our
cultural messages that, really, they are personal problems and I should be able to
find personal solutions. I just need to find the right day care
situation and make my time with my kids "quality time". And if that
doesn't work for me , I have the choice to stay at home with my kids.
Hard work is the American Way. Parents have choices galore.
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