Having had a single working mom, my ambition always was to stay home with my kids. Which I did. (Nowadays, few families can afford to have a potential wage-earner stay home.) Back in the early seventies in Manhattan, when asked the inevitable, “what do you do?” if I said, “I’m home with my kids,” I immediately became an object of complete disinterest. Finally I began to say, “I’m in an in-house program of juvenile development.” few people ever asked for details, but at least they would keep talking to me!
Having had a single working mom, my ambition always was to stay home with my kids. Which I did. (Nowadays, few families can afford to have a potential wage-earner stay home.) Back in the early seventies in Manhattan, when asked the inevitable, “what do you do?” if I said, “I’m home with my kids,” I immediately became an object of complete disinterest. Finally I began to say, “I’m in an in-house program of juvenile development.” few people ever asked for details, but at least they would keep talking to me!