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Before Breakfast

Try a split shift

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Education, Self-improvement

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Protect family time and get your work done with this one tweak to your schedule.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi I'm Daniel Tosh, host of a new podcast called Tosh Show.

0:03.4

I'll be interviewing people that I find interesting, so not celebrities, and certainly not

0:07.8

comedians. We'll be covering topics like religion, travel, sports, gambling, but mostly it will be about being a working

0:16.3

mother.

0:17.3

If you're looking for a podcast that will educate and inspire or one that will really make

0:21.3

you think, this isn't the one for you.

0:24.0

Listen to Toss Show on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:30.0

Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. Today's tip is to work

0:39.4

what I call a split shift. So my kids have never been huge fans of sleep. Even when they were

0:46.7

babies they seem to need a lot less sleep than other kids. But many babies and

0:51.6

toddlers do go to bed relatively early.

0:54.0

And this causes one of the first dilemmas that many new working parents face.

0:58.0

You need to put in a good chunk of hours to do your job,

1:01.0

but your kids go to bed by 7.30 p.m.

1:04.5

If you work until 6.30 p.m. and then have a half hour commute,

1:08.5

you barely have time to run in and kiss them good night.

1:12.0

This evening dilemma can be a challenge for people without kids too.

1:15.4

I mean, maybe you'd like to volunteer one night a week or join a softball league

1:18.8

that practices on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6 p.m.

1:22.0

Then you talk yourself out of it,

1:23.6

because you need to work 50 hours or more per week.

1:26.8

But before we start worrying that no one can have it all,

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