I do understand more now that I am a mom and live that life. I understand that it IS possible to get it all done IF you sacrifice and guide and set time for homework and discipline and, oh, I don't know...freaking PARENT! All the things you listed I am even less understanding about than I was pre-parent. I was the sweetest, most understanding lady you could ever meet. "It must be so hard. So many parents say this. I must not understand how much it must truly take." Now that I do have kids and do it all and I KNOW what it takes , I can smell the bull stank from a hundred miles away.


Until you are a parent, you will not understand how much you actually do understand right now. More than I did.