For months after my son was born I kept a running time tally in my head of time I no longer had to myself. Television I wasn’t watching. Books I wasn’t reading. Conversations I wasn’t having. Sleep I wasn’t getting....
>>>For months after my son was born I kept a running time tally in my head of time I no longer had to myself. Television I wasn’t watching. Books I wasn’t reading. Conversations I wasn’t having. Sleep I wasn’t getting.
Now a survey in Britain has done the calculating for me. The Co-operative supermarket chain polled 3000 customers and found that after everything else was subtracted, working parents have 90 minutes a day “to themselves.”
**The excerpt is taken from the NYT blog on parenting, Motherlode. The entry is called, "Free Time for Parents," written by Lisa Belkin and it's linked below. Please do click through to see how Lisa Belkin determines if the results from a poll were true.**
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/free-time-for-parents/
