The Life We Are Always About to Get Back To
The tenderness is buried inside the chaos, not somewhere apart from it.
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Your work matters.
Your family is everything.
Both are true.
Working Parent is for the part of life where work, family, policy, ambition, school schedules, money, and ordinary chaos all happen at once.
Written & edited by Georgia LogothetisWorking mother of three · Founder of Working Parent
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The premise
Not another parenting site. Not another leadership newsletter.
Working Parent is not a parenting site with a side of ambition, or a work newsletter pretending family is an afterthought.
It is for the middle of real life: school pickups, deadlines, money, policy, love, guilt, and the hope that home still comes first.
You’ll recognize yourself here
This is the part nobody puts in the job description.
Working Parent treats the collisions between work and family as the story, not background noise.
Scheduled a meeting around school pickup and pretended that wasn’t what you were doing.
Realized your “backup childcare” was actually a list of people you hoped would say yes.
Answered work email from a pediatrician’s waiting room.
Opened the school calendar and discovered another Tuesday event at 1:15 p.m.
Wondered how a household with two adults can still somehow have no available adults.
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A note from Georgia
I made Working Parent because I know what it’s like to like your work, love your kids, and still wonder whether you’re getting any of it right.
Georgia Logothetis is the Founder & Editor of Working Parent. She has spent more than two decades in law, public policy, communications, and leadership, and she writes this publication from inside the actual mess and meaning of working family life.
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