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Reply to "If you're professionally ambitious, do you feel you spend enough good time with your kids?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am ambitious in the sense that I was to achieve a lot in my career, but most importantly, in the sense that my work is recognized as deserving flexibility and autonomy. I worked really hard through my 20s and 30s to achieve this, so now in my early 40s with two ES kids, I work hard but I work when and where I want. I do travel and work nights 1-2x/month but I’m also a room parent, available for field trips and volunteering, walk to the bus, etc. I completely agree that my kids need me now more than when they were little… and it increases as they get older. As babies, they needed caring comfort to feed and change them. Now my 10 yo DD needs HER MOM. And we’re making that work - through my strong boundaries and pushes for flexibility, through my husband’s very 8-6 job, and through a lot of conversations about how a woman’s job is important, too. [/quote] +1 [/quote]
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