It's being there when that child comes home from school heartbroken because of something some other child said. When a child is sick or in need of special attention, what's needed is Mom, and too often Mom's not there. But the ones who hire me are working for their million-dollar mansion, their dream vacation, their luxury car. About the time I was in high school, Gloria Steinem came along telling us we could have it all, and I see so many women today still determined to have it all. But no one can have it all.
Choices have to be made.
You can't give yourself to a career and to your children, too. Something or someone has to give, and usually it's the kids. Put her in a stressful situation and she may not know what to do. They've never parented. And I can tell which kids are in corporate day care by the way they act.