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Podcast: Women at Work
Episode: Working While Parenting a Teen: Not What I Expected
Description: Do you expect and hope that you’ll have more time for yourself and for your career as your kids become teens and young adults? Amy G did. However, she didn’t fully anticipate the emotional intensity of being a working mom of a teenager. Responding to seemingly urgent texts, keeping track of an ever-changing after-school schedule, and being an on-call problem-solver would affect anyone’s ability to focus, including hers.
There’s little research on or conversation about this phase of working motherhood, and Amy wants to help other working moms not not only get through it but e...