This is Help Wanted, the show that makes your work work for you.

I'm Jason Pfeiffer, editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur Magazine.

And I'm money expert Nicole Lapin.

On Tuesdays, Jason and I answer the helpline and help callers solve their work problems. And on Thursdays, I give you one way to improve your work and build a career or company you love.

And it starts now.

So, Nicole, you are about to have a child and just telling you that in case you didn't know.

Yeah, I'm well aware.

Yes, you're extremely pregnant right now.

87 months pregnant, yes.

So for a while, for many years, you will be doing everything for that kid and as you should,

because that kid is not going to be able to move themselves or feed themselves.

But of course, at some point, grows up, becomes a person who can actually

do things for themselves. Yeah, I've heard all about you wiping her kids' asses. Oh, God, I've wiped

too many asses. But at some point, of course, a parent needs to let the birdie fly off on

its own. And that is a really hard thing to do that what I am hearing, what people seem to be

talking about culturally, is that parents are having an increasingly hard time doing that and are

more and more involved in their kids' lives later and later. So for example, I was just talking to

this person who runs a college advisory who is saying that

parents are now very involved in their children's college academic experience.

Like, they'll text the kid and they'll be like, don't forget, you have class on Tuesday at 10

a.m. or don't forget that test is due, which sounds horrifying.

Yeah, I was told that it went from

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