September 6, 2021

post by Brittany Lynch

Hi BOSLadies! I hope everyone amped up to make it to the first in-person meeting at Cannon's roofdeck this Thursday at 5:30pm EST to discuss You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero! I stole the weekly three update from Amber this week to discuss parenting. Did you know that September 16 is National Working Parents Day? The Weekly Three 1. Are you a parent? WILD is kicking off a Parent Resource Group - called PRG+. Our first virtual get together is one week from today, September 13, 1pm-2pm EST. REGISTER HERE Yes, the logo is tongue in cheek humor. Kelly Roberts, Lisa Reed, and I have been conspiring this summer to kick off this amazing group. It was inspired by the fantastically successful Parenting in the Time of COVID WILD workshop last year. It was, hands down, the most useful WILD event I've ever attended. We hope to keep the momentum going with a parenting support group. Because if anything, these past 18 months (equivalent to a decade of aging in my life) have shown me that the more moral support I get, the more empowered I feel to make the decisions that are right for me and my fam. Here's blurb of what were are about from the event page: Working parents face unbounded pressures to perform at work and at home with little to no support. Then arrived the pandemic, and our patched-together life rafts sank. Parents, especially moms, are conditioned to believe that if we can learn one more life hack or have one more hour per day, then all of our problems will be solved. In actuality, the pressure is due to a complex web of societal and economic pressures, and our problems are not going to be solved with a well-organized to-do list. 2. With many views stating that the government should not meddle in the childcare system, the most successful model of childcare is RUN by the government. Check out the article HERE. 3. The delay in approval of the kids vaccine is such a draaaaaaaaggggggggg. Other's lives may be returned to some semblance of order with people going back to the office. But for parents with kiddos under 12, nothing has really changed. We still have to deal with quarantines, disruptions in work, a COVID test and days home from school each time they get a runny nose, and that's if we are lucky. Instead of getting down on myself, I try to read articles like THIS that explain the complexity of these little biological wonders. Children are not small adults when it comes to vaccines. Hope everyone enjoys a fantastic day off to celebrate Labor day! I've got a strawberry blonde four year old nestled in my lap begging for pancakes, so duty calls. My apologies if there are a few typos :) And now one child in my lap has now grown to two. And here comes the cat to join us... Until next time, Brittany