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Fill Up Your Childcare Backup Bench
by Avni Patel Thompson
Quick Takes
- Keep your pandemic support system in place
- Find people with similar patterns to yours
- Build a list of childcare professionals and services
- Be prepared to be your own backup
Talia is an executive at a Boston-area multinational company and the mother to two grade-school-aged boys. Over the past decade, she’s enjoyed advancing through the ranks, delivering consistently strong results while building high-performing teams. But the year and a half she experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic took its toll, pushing her to both her professional and personal limits.
Talia is recently divorced, so beyond the typical challenges of navigating such an emotional and foundational change ...
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