So Long And Farewell To The “Good Old Days”

Gone are the days of having to get up and go to work in order to make a full-time income.

Working from home during the summer with a 3-year-old breeds a whole new kind of chaos and crazy, but it’s one I wouldn’t change for the world. I can’t count the number of times I’ve thought this over the last week (our first unofficial week of summer), as well as over the course of the year.

Every time things get a little bit past crazy and into overwhelming territory, I step back and think about what that sentence really means.

I work from home while raising my 3-year-old.

There is no other generation as of yet that’s been able to honestly say they hold down a real job while also staying home with their kids (without it meaning some kind of crazy, hectic, never sleep, juggling of a schedule, at least).

But now, in the 21st century, it’s becoming more and more normal, and I’m getting fewer and fewer odd puzzled looks when I answer the ever-popular question of, “So what do you do?” with both a “work” and “stay at home” response. I can only imagine it’s going to continue becoming more and more mainstream as the trend of working remotely, telecommuting, and Internet-based jobs gets more popular.

While my family’s job-life situation is one of the biggest factors that make me grateful for the Internet and all the technology that comes with the 21st century, I realize just how much I rely on our advanced time when it comes to my parenting. I’m almost ashamed to admit how much my skill set depends on Jetson-like technology, but there’s nothing wrong with embracing the opportunities available to you.

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