So, You’ve Decided to Have It All

Think you can’t manage career and children? Think again.

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Part one in a six-part series, Creative Parenting for the Working Mom, from Reinventing the Working Mom®

Having it all. It’s become a catchall, a cliché. It’s a criticism (“She left the meeting early; I guess that’s what they mean by ‘having it all.’”) It’s well-meaning, if patronizing advice. (“Just don’t try to have it all.”) And it’s the dream of countless women. (“Could I really have it all?”)

The answer is, of course you can.

Welcome to Creative Parenting for the Working Mom, a six-part series that will help you navigate the often thorny landscape that is balancing career and family. It’s not easy. Don’t let anyone tell you differently. But every day, amazing women make it happen. Valerie Jarret, former senior advisor to President Barack Obama, blocked out time for her daughter and arranged work meetings around that. Multiple-Grammy-Awarded singer Adele schedules one afternoon a week for herself — without her son. And the late, great, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who advanced the cause of women like few in history, said she owed her law school success to dividing her time between studying and caring for her 14-month-old daughter. “I felt each part of my life gave me respite from the other.”