The art of motherhood (read: you CANNOT have it all)
I realized early this year that I can’t have it all – I can’t be the mother I want to be to my 3 year old, run my own business, and stay in shape. It just wasn’t in my cards. And so I assessed – Tin is 3 now, and will be soon 4, then 5, etc. In time, his days will be filled with school and friends and extra curricular activities – but now, Tin’s life is nestled around us – he seeks our approval for his Lego concoctions, he wants to hang out with us.
So adjustments needed to be made – making priorities around the fact that his needs (and ours of him) are immediate and everything else needed to be shifted downward in priority.
Yahoo just announced that it had hired a senior executive from Google – and that she’s pregnant and due this October. No problem, she says, she’ll work through her maternity leave. How sad – one day Marissa might realize that Yahoo was not worth what she gave up in terms of spending time with her newborn because there will be plenty of opportunities out there for her career, but only one child like the one she is about to bring into this world.
“My maternity leave will be a few weeks long and I’ll work throughout it.”
— Newly named Yahoo president/CEO Marissa Mayer explaining to Fortune that she’s expecting a boy in early October and that her pregnancy won’t affect her duties at Yahoo.
July 24th, 2012 at 8:24 pm
Marissa: 0
Rachel: 1 (as in “won”)
Good for you, Rachel!
and GREAT for Tin
July 25th, 2012 at 3:29 am
Mudd – I read an article by a politician who said she had twins while she was in office and that this should be a non issue but I remember thinking before I had Tin that sure you can do it all – but then what? – you miss out on so much, your child misses out on so much of you, and what? Why have a child to warehouse them out to nannies – sure she has the money to have someone else raise her child. But here’s what’s interesting – at no point is daddy mentioned and who will really be taking care of the baby as she works 90 hours a week. Absurd. Just be a career woman or be a mom – you can do both in a lifetime.