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You have to make adjustments.

Queen Elizabeth's father, King George, the 6th, met with his Prime Minister

Winston Churchill every Tuesday at 5.30 p.m. So you might think that when his daughter

took over, she would continue the tradition. Elizabeth was, after all, a traditionalist.

But she didn't. Queen Elizabeth had two young children, and every parent knows that

5.30 p.m. is when dinnertime starts to transition into bedtime. To avoid the painful question,

why isn't Mommy going to play with us tonight? Her biographer Sally Bettle Smith writes that

Queen Elizabeth moved the audience to 630, which allowed her to go into the

nursery to join in their nightly bath and tuck them into bed before discussing matters of state with

Winston Churchill. The point is, whatever your children's ages, you have to make adjustments.

Whatever your job is, it can and must be adjusted around what we all know is your most important job.

If the queen can put off Winston Churchill for an hour, you can reschedule that conference call.

If Obama can figure out how to have dinner with his daughters, you can make breakfast with yours.

Would it be wonderful if society was much more accommodating and naturally fitted to the lives and

obligations of parents? Yes. Are we fulfilling our moral duty as a society to support all parents and

families? No, not nearly enough. And hopefully the tide is turning in that regard. But in the

meantime, as parents, we have to continue to fight for what we can get.

We have to make the necessary adjustments, insist on them, stick to them, not be afraid to put

some people out in the process. Family comes first before business, even the business of state.

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