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[quote=Anonymous]OP, if there's something to take away from this it's to talk to your kids (teens, mostly) about what it takes to keep a household going. Talk about how hard it is to be far from family, because of childcare and holiday travel and etc. Talk about how most families make things work by having one spouse take a more flexible but often less lucrative or fulfilling job. Talk about the balance between earning money for fun treats and camps, and preserving time for day to day family interaction. I think a lot of us grew up in the "you can have it all, lean in" era and I wish some adults in my life had talked about this stuff while I was making career choices. It's not that I was surprised by daycare waitlists, it's that I didn't plan my career with a kid in mind. [/quote]
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