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The Teacher is Talking: Busy parents, busy kids…what they really want

By Leslie Lindsay You got kids, you’re busy.  Hands down.  Kids +  parents = busy, there is no getting around that. Just this morning, I was chatting with a mom at Pre-K drop-off, “It’s so hard being a mom these days,” we mused.  “Not only do we have all of the day-to-day things to deal with, but we also have our work-from-home jobs, too.”  (She does some work through her father’s company “on the side,” and I write).  It seems there is so little time in the hours that our kids are away at school (4 hours for the Pre-K program and 6+ for grade-schoolers).  Really, how much “work” can you accomplish in that amount of time? And what about those household chores that need to get done and are oh-so-much easier to do when the kids aren’t around?  And then this mom says, “And sometimes, I just need a minute to breathe!!”  Yes, we all need downtime…and sleeping shouldn’t count! Not only do we need to do the household chores, our “other” work, but we …