I thought I wanted a baby someday, but after watching this … yikes.

I’m not a parent, but I might be kind of glad I’m not. It looks really freaking hard.

Although I’m not a working parent myself, my parents were, and I’ve always appreciated how much effort that must have taken to raise someone like me while holding down a job.

But now I’m beginning to think it’s harder than I’ve ever imagined. The video below — starring Adrienne C. Moore from “Orange Is the New Black” — was made by Make It Work as a way to illustrate just how difficult it can be. And they’re asking working families a question I would love the answer to: Just how do you do it?


Here are some of my favorite answers from around the web. Be sure to share your secrets to making it work here.



Culture

Mom explains the eye-opening reason people stop to thank her for having eight children

Culture

In 1887, a photographer captured America’s stunning Western frontier and Native Americans

Nature

Florida dumped half a million oyster shells into the Gulf of Mexico. No one expected the results to be this good.

Culture

1989 ‘Donahue’ interview with female cast of ‘Steel Magnolias’ shows how far we’ve come