Oh, I feel you on this one. | by Addie Page | Medium

…hter in front of the TV — although TV is a gift from the heavens, and I will never stop singing its praises. It also means pushing my daughter on the swing, where she’d be happy for hours, while I catch up on text messages or browse social media. It means going for a drive while my daugh…

You Can Have a Life and Be a Good Parent

Matthew R

1 min readJun 25, 2020

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Oh, I feel you on this one. Our house literally has three different swings for the sole purpose of buying me time to drink a cup of coffee without it being ripped out of my hands by tiny little people :-)

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