ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, April 17, 1997 TAG: 9704170090
SECTION: AT WORK PAGE: B-1 EDITION: METRO
COLUMN: The Daily Grind
SOURCE: LESLIE TAYLOR
Staff writers Leslie Taylor and John Warren normally will take turns writing ``The Daily Grind,'' a weekly column about the workplace, but in this introduction we offer a few words from each:
I am a ``working mother,'' one of 74.9 million in the U.S. who have children between the ages of 6 and 13.
One who has long argued that ``supermom'' is a cruel myth but who strives anyway to live up to it.
One who is often late for parent-teacher conferences and who has spent weeknights making the Rocky Mountains out of salt dough.
One who once served Cheerios for dinner.
I say all of that neither in jest nor to bore readers with another tale of a mother who juggles work with traditional roles that women may never be able to equally share with men. But the juggle - the struggle - is very much a part of who I am and how I do what I do for a living.
So every other Thursday, ``working parenting'' may creep into this space.
How do working parents handle day care? Who has the luxury of taking the children to work? Who struggles to find a place to send school-age kids on snow days? And who has quit work or scaled back work hours, deciding that children should take priority over the 9 to 5?
My columns surely will be about much more than snow days and sick kids. The workplace offers plenty to write about - the way our lives are shaped by our jobs and how we shape our lives around them.
After all, the workplace is where 124.9million Americans spend a good portion of their lives.
LESLIE TAYLOR can be reached at 981-3209 or lesliet@roanoke.com
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