Schedule-Free Summers Aren’t Realistic For Working Moms

May 4, 2019

Every year around this time, the Internet explodes with articles encouraging families to toss their virtual agendas and let kids enjoy a schedule-free summer. These posts wax on about how special it was to grow up in the eighties and nineties without the modern pressure we have to over-excel.

With babies enrolling in gymnastics classes as early as four-months-old, toddlers playing violin, and…

Candace Alnaji is an attorney, entrepreneur, and proud mom of three. She is founder of two companies that help professionals navigate workplace challenges and build careers they love. Her writing and advice has been featured on Fairygodboss, Scary Mommy, The Muse, New York Post, POPSUGAR, Her View From Home, and in other media outlets. She can be found writing about career strategy for women lawyers on her blog as The Mom at Law. She can also be found on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest.