You don’t realize how often you’ll find yourself standing around with other parents. And as enlightened as the current thinking on gender roles is, those parents are very often moms. Women Moms.
First Person is a daily personal piece submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? See our guidelines atI work from home. If you work from a home where young children live, the first line of your job description quickly becomes offspring logistics. You become responsible for all the things that need to be done during the hours many adults wisely choose to spend at the office.
Initially, the prospect of hanging around with women all day didn’t seem half bad. After all, it was something I spent most of my youth trying to do. And inside your own head, your youth is never over. You still feel like the mid-20s person you were when your brain stopped taking in new information. But seeing the women hanging around outside the kids’ school really drove home how old I’d become.
But still, now almost every day I have to go to an institution that gets sporadic bouts of lice and where the inmates are often illiterate, are losing their teeth and occasionally wet themselves. When you graduate from elementary school, you think you’re done with that place. The fact that’s not true is not one of the things they teach you, in that school or any other.
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