For a while, when you have small children, your personal life can start to feel like a room in the house you used to live in. You remember it. You know it exists. You just don’t get to go there very often. That sounds dramatic, but most parents know exactly what it means. Once children are маленькие — the stage of naps, snacks, daycare bugs, laundry mountains, 6 a.m. wakeups, and mysterious sticky surfaces — life becomes very practical. Days are built around needs. Urgent ones, repetitive ones, loud ones. Even love starts to look logistical. Who is picking up? … Continue reading How Parents of Small Children Can Find Time for a Personal Life