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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHart Radio. Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is that morning time can be family time.

If weekday evenings feel shorter than you would like or even if they don't,

morning hours can offer a great opportunity to connect if you are intentional about this space.

Today's tip, like some others this week, comes from my book I Know How She Doesn't. you are intentional about this space.

Today's tip, like some others this week, comes from my book I Know How She Does It,

which came out 10 years ago this month.

For the book, I collected Time Diary Data from 1001 Days in the Lives of Women with Big Jobs and Families.

I found that in the 168 hours that make up a week,

it is possible to work, spend time with family, sleep, exercise, read, or do anything you

truly care about. Lots of people are successfully having it all.

Even people with intense jobs often do wind up spending a reasonable amount of time with their children.

But one reason it doesn't always feel like it is that we often only count the time in the evening.

So if you get home from work at six and you've got young kids who go to bed at 7.30,

then it feels like you've only got 90 minutes a day with them.

But this ignores the mornings, which exist.

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