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If “It Takes a Village,” Then You’re the Mayor
How to Build and Maintain Your Workparent Support Team
You’ve gotten where you are today through hard work and a willingness to take on more. But when you become a working parent, and as your child grows and your career progresses, the demands—and the hours, and the stakes, and the sheer range of what you’re responsible for—ramp up sharply. You can’t go this alone: you need help, of many different kinds, and fast.
Even if you do buy into the old wisdom that “it takes a village to raise a child,” though, where these hypothetical Villagers are supposed to come from is another story. (Somehow, you didn’t find them all waiting eagerly in the living room on the day you brought the baby home.) ...
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