Monetizing bitchiness. It's my greatest natural resource and it would be wrong to let it go to waste.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Thank You, Harvard
Thank you, Harvard, for making me feel even worse about myself. This HBR article says that if I don't smile after work, my early adolescent children's sense of well-being will be shattered. So awesome! It is not enough to work hard all day (and, let's face it, into most evening and every weekend) to support my kids, I better come home with a smile on my face. If I don't smile each night while I juggle the kids' homework (and, honestly, just figuring out what has been assigned is an incredible stress-inducer), my own work, the kids' dinner (my gourmet meal of cheezits comes much later), and laundry, my kids will have a poor sense of well-being. I couldn't even rephrase that term, because I don't really quite know what it means, but I do know it must mean that my inability to force a pageant-winningly manic smile across my face while saddled with all those responsibilities each and every night is doing my children irreparable harm. And it's all my fault.
And where did I read this enlightening article, Harvard? Why on a plane to Phoenix for work. Work that kept me away from my kids for three nights, three nights that I could not aim my pearly whites in their direction, three nights that no doubt eroded their sense of wellbeing yet further, if that is humanly possible. But when I finally arrived home at 3 am, you just know I ran right into their room, woke them up, and beamed madly at them both. It's the least I can do for them.
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The "parenting" Industry is the worst thing that has ever happened to women. Ever see a documentary about indigenous people? Ever notice that the mothers seem a lot calmer? And their kids too? Yep- it's lack of exposure to the parenting industry. I have to go back to eating sugar cookies and watching the Backyardigans now.
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