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.



Conservation

Viewers thought 100-year-old David Attenborough was finally ready to retire. They were wrong.

Culture

Intriguing 1909 painting blurs the lines between old-timey self-portrait and modern selfie

Life Hacks

‘Small-town guy’ shares how he was able to reboot his life, even in his late 50s

Science

Fascinating new research finally explains humans’ ‘morbid curiosity’