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What a Black person thinks when they read this blog

Penelope Trunk

I asked Whitney to annotate one of my blog posts because I want to better understand the white privilege on my blog. How could you be thinking this when there are so many parents/guardians who won’t be able to stay home with their young kids and so many homes that are impossibly set up for home learning? So here I go!

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This post is hard to write, so you better read it.

Penelope Trunk

What I’ve learned from selling stuff on this blog is that I don’t like to do it. I think about when the Farmer’s parents will die. I think it’s because I have a blog that says you should never divorce and we don’t need teachers , and he just divorced his wife and got remarried to a teacher.

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What you think about after you think about if you should give up career for kids

Penelope Trunk

And in that vein, here is a blog dedicated to showing the truth about life as a partner of a big law firm. Note: meanwhile millennial men are not as prepared, and they are shocked to find out that parenting while you have a huge job is maybe impossible. In this respect I think I’m part of a movement.

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Life-Long Learning

Charles Leon

However, there is another fringe benefit, and that's the purpose of this blog. Those who found the juggling most difficult (especially the parents) were overthinking the juggling. People try to be "conscious" of every movement, which overwhelms the brain (the conscious brain is very slow compared to the unconscious, automatic brain).

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An Interview with David Airey, Graphic Designer

Lateral Action

Having honed his skills working in the UK and the United States, he then made a conscious choice to specialise in logo design. He authors two of the most popular graphic design blogs on the internet, Logo Design Love and David Airey , attracting approximately one million monthly page views from around 250,000 monthly visitors.

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3 Rules high achievers never break

Penelope Trunk

But you don’t need another blog post on not following rules, because I think we all agree that this blog is a monument to not following rules. And I’d have no reason that made sense to him, and I try very hard to look like a normal person when I’m parenting. And even those came up. He’s a people pleaser.

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9 Productivity Lessons from the First 2 Months of Parenthood

Lateral Action

This isn't a parenting blog, and I'm a rank beginner at the art, so I won't venture any advice on that subject. One of the best bits of advice I've received was from a friend who became a parent a few months before us: "It gets easier once you accept being tired all the time". Cue the biggest standing ovation I've ever received.