Working and Parenting: It’s Possible

Many women prefer to work some amount of the time and raise their children simultaneously.

Many women prefer to work some amount of the time and raise their children simultaneously. George Rudy/Shutterstock

Commentary

Recently a mother’s rant about how to keep up with society’s demands about working, parenting, and keeping it all together, went viral—it received more than 72,000 shares. In it, Sarah Buckley Friedberg describes, with frighteningly accurate detail, what it’s like to be a mother, employee, wife, friend, cultural observer, and more. Here’s just a small portion: