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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My alumni magazine featured Helene Kaplan recently. She finished college, got married then 10 years and two kids later went to law school. Joined Skadden and has a long list of accomplishments and extensive involvement in various organizations. 
Ruth Bader Ginsburg had one of her two kids before going to law school.

I had kids rather late (36 and 38), actually spent 7 years in a different career, then 7 years as SAHM. Re-entered the workforce in mid-40s and now in corporate firm. I wish I had more time to develop my career uninterrupted like the two women I mentioned earlier had AND had more time to live out life with kids and grandkids.[/quote]

Kaplan most likely missed a significant portion of her kids' middle and high school years so I wouldn't say she had it all.  She made a choice just like everyone else.[/quote]

By the time my kids were in middle school, they did not need me much anymore except for food. They try their damnedest not to be seen with me when they are with their peers although sometimes they will come say hi when I am working the high school school swag table but it all depends on their mood. We live in NYC and they get around on the subways and citibike on their own (one of the benefits of living in a city with good transit, I'm not a chauffeur). They are in SHS schools so I pretty much don't need to monitor them, they are hard on themselves. These days I'm working about 60+ hours/week but thankfully most of it from home.

Before I started working I spent a crap ton of time with them and those were the years where it counted - they tested into excellent schools and went into cruise control after elementary. [/quote]

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