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.



Skills

Under or over? There actually is a ‘right’ way to hang a toilet paper roll.

Dads

A dad was camping with his kids when a fellow camper slipped him this handwritten note

Dads

Kindergarteners in 1949 were asked to draw their dads from memory. The results are stunning.

Culture

Gen Z is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents but Denmark has a solution