Plaza Loma - Chapter One, Day 3

You'd better brush your teeth because they will be here in 2 minutes. My daily preoccupation is getting the kids to complete 4 simple tasks: eat breakfast, brush their teeth, dress so that CPS is not called on the family, and be ready when the other families arrive in our garage so we can all walk to school together. Most days, we fail to check all four boxes. If you were to rate my parent performance like a baseball batting average, I, as a parent, am hitting 245. In the end, I let stuff slide so my kids don't have core memories of me as their dad yelling all the time. I practice what I believe is patience. But the reality is I tend to be more patient in front of other parents, so that. I don't come across as my father to others. We leave for school, less than a 10 min walk on what I would describe as comfortable. Fellow parents and kids are all starting their collective days. The kids headed into another day of mental coddling, and parents who experience the brief pause, some say procrastination from the windfall of tasks and issues they have to deal with. The work-life balance...