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I'm Anne Strange Champs.

Do you feel like you still have weekends?

A few years ago, I was one of a two-parent, full-time working family with two very busy kids.

We were scheduled to the Gilles.

Journalist Katrina Onstad.

Our devices were pinging with leftover work emails, homework,

shuttling the kids between scheduled activities, social events,

playdates. There was a kind of sameness, this crush of life, work.

I was tired and snappy.

I was needing to nap.

I was never off.

I was always on, and we were all on, the whole family.

I felt like a failure.

We were just in a grind, and on Sunday nights, my son at the time who was about 11 would say was that a weekend? You know what? I think a lot of us are not quite sure what

a weekend is supposed to be anymore. I mean, for me, I work pretty flat out during the week,

and I really look forward to coming home Friday night and feeling like the pressure's off.

But then Sunday afternoon rolls around, and I just start feeling blue.

I'm not sure what exactly I wanted from the weekend, but I'm pretty sure I either didn't get it or I didn't get enough of it.

Well, Katrina Anstead knows exactly what that's like, and that's why she wrote The Weekend Effect,

a book that explains how we ruined the weekend and how to get it back. Beginning with those Sunday night blues.

That's an actual phenomenon.

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