Family outing to Nerstrand Big Woods State Park
It hit me in March, as I swapped notes with senior editor Liz Fedor about her cover story on the working mom juggle: I hadn’t planned my kids’ summer.
I hear the gasps of fellow working mothers.
Ask almost any mom with school-age kids and she’ll tell you: Summer is actually more stressful than the school year. (All due respect, dads every study indicates, and my own experience supports, that women in dual-income households still do most of the planning, and the lion’s share of worrying). Summer means weeks and weeks of unstructured, unsupervised time to fill. Transportation to figure out. Rainy days to account for, because your meetings don’t get cancelled even when tennis lessons do. For some, concern about where their kids will get lunch; for others, guilt over too much screen time.