8 Oct 2018

Staying sane as a working parent

From Afternoons, 3:10 pm on 8 October 2018
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Many working mothers know a secret that you won't read about in the glossy magazines that proclaim that women can balance career and motherhood with style and grace and a stack of organizational tips. Balancing work, family and relationship easily is a big little lie says Christine Armstrong. She says families are suffering because of the myth.

Armstrong spent four years talking to working women trying to live up to what she calls an impossible standard. She says it's time to have a new conversation about working and parenting and offers ways she says we can do better in her new book The Mother of All Jobs : How to Have Children and a Career and Stay Sane(ish).