Back to School, COVID Edition 2.0!

Best of Both Worlds Podcast

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Kids & Family, Careers, Business

4.6 • 761 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In the episode, Sarah and Laura open with a discussion of school supply buying escapades as well as this year's school logistics. Then, they dive into the subject on many people's minds -- how to grapple with this year's COVID surge and the start of school. Sarah shares her impressions of Florida's current situation, and they both discuss contingency plans for inevitable quarantines. In the Q&A, a listener writes in with a common dilemma - stay in a "gilded cage" at work with good work/life balance, or look for more challenge?

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.
0:05.8	Oh yeah.
0:06.6	Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles, including romanticity,
0:15.3	autobiographies, true crime, and more.
0:19.3	Suddenly listeners didn't mind sitting in traffic or even missing their
0:22.6	flight. Amazon Music Unlimited now includes Audible. No way. Download the Amazon Music app now to start
0:28.4	listening. Terms apply. Hi, this is Laura Vanderkamp. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist,
0:37.9	and speaker. And this is Sarah Hart Unger. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker.
0:43.9	And this is Sarah Hart Unger. I'm a mother of three, a practicing physician, and blogger on the side.
0:49.2	We are two working parents who love our careers and our families. Welcome to Best of Both Worlds.
0:55.1	Here we talk about how real women manage work, family, and time for fun. From figuring out child care to mapping out long-term career goals, we want you to get the most out of life.
1:02.3	Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. This is Laura. This is episode 212, which is airing in late
1:08.2	August of 2021. We're going to be talking back to school, though, with the background of COVID and particularly
1:15.9	the Delta variant going on right now and how that is going to inform this school year
1:20.6	and what we can all do to do our best to make sure that our children have an uninterrupted
1:26.8	year of education, that people
1:29.2	are able to focus on their work despite this background of the pandemic going on. But we'll start
1:35.5	with a little bit of light stuff, namely back to school shopping. We just got an email yesterday.
1:41.8	I'm very excited about. So we've done back to school episodes for a couple of years now. And Sarah has always mentioned how awesome it is that her local public school when her kids went there had a fundraiser where you could buy all the pre-packaged school supplies for the individual classes. It was great. We never had that. But this year we do.
2:01.0	Like they teamed up with staples to do boxes for the elementary school grades.
2:07.6	So I'm very excited about that.
2:09.3	Possibly my kids will be less excited if they're not picking out their own pencils, but
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