Hi friends, it's Anne. Like many of you, I'm a parent. My kids are all grown up now.

But if you still have young ones at home, how are you handling it all? Childcare, work, and life is a lot to juggle, especially right now.

And sometimes the system seems so broken that we need a new idea. Like a parenting revolution.

That's our subject in this episode, so keep listening.

Music subject in this episode, so keep listening. It's to the best of our knowledge.

I'm Anne Strain Champs, and today we're going to be hearing from parents.

Brittany, thank you so much for doing this. Yeah. Thank you for having me.

If there's one thing the pandemic has laid bare, it's how precarious the lives of most working parents really are.

If you could start with saying your name, where you live, just really your story, you know, really what you've been going through.

Sure.

So, okay.

My name is Brittany Powell, and me and my husband, Eric, we live in rural Vermont.

And we have one child.

Our son, Waylon, is almost two.

I have a full-time job as a media marketing manager at an arts college here.

And then I also work as a part-time adjunct professor of art at a local military college.

And my husband works as a craftsman and a metal fabricator for a local build company.

So in the beginning, our full-time daycare provider closed for several months, and my husband was also laid off.

I was all of a sudden sort of working from home, which was a little challenging. My son was not even one yet.

He was pretty needy for me while I was here and I was trying to get work done in the house

and I was also breastfeeding.

It definitely felt pretty hectic.

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