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Sarah Wheeler's avatar

I so appreciate this and also am like hasnt the last 3 years been the season of intermittent childcare lol ??!!! but no summer is no effing joke.

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Sara Fredman's avatar

Lol yes and yes

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Wendy's avatar

I do write differently knowing that my kids will read it when the thing I want to write about is their story as much (or more) than it is mine. I have a teenager right now and I would love to write more about the experience of parenting in this phase but I don't because I want to respect his privacy and his future digital footprint. With both my kids and my husband, I don't post anything about them without their consent, so that does sometimes change what I might write.

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Gary Belsky's avatar

I like these kinds of posts

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Jane Ariel Katz's avatar

Ah yes. My personal favorite are the two weeks between school graduation and the start of camp in the same building. Why?!

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Sara Fredman's avatar

Maddening!

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Kate Lewis's avatar

Thinking through this now in my own work - I don’t worry about writing on my kids because I’m not writing the entirety of their lives - I’m writing my own. I do think this through about writing my own childhood and whether I even want to include family that way.

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Sara Fredman's avatar

It's hard! I always feel like it's impossible to write about my life without including other people...

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