Working Parents Being a working parent isn't as easy as you'd think. There is so much that comes along with being a working parent. There's even more than enough that comes with being a single working parent. As parents we understand that our children have to be fed, clothed, and sheltered, but let's face it, if we were on our own, living in our cars would suffice. Becoming an adult itself already requires simply trying to survive. Now we have to add these small, attention seeking, extremely energetic wall bouncing children into our daily routines. Don't get me wrong, being a parent is an amazing feature that life has to offer. But, being a working parent can be bitter sweet. We're given 9 hours each day to simply breathe without any hassle, but if you're like me then the customers you're dealing with daily surpass the feeling of wanting to crawl into a hole over your child's “terrible” stages. Sadly, being a working parent causes you to miss out on so many new things your child is learning. Like how to snatch snacks from other children at daycare, and of course the simple fact of growth. Depending on our work schedules, we aren't able to wake up and blast music while making pancakes and annoying our neighbors every morning as we wish we could. We aren't able to sleep in and wake up to our children kicking us in the face while laughing because they've learned how to cause harm toward us. For some of us we aren't even able to read the Dr Seuss book that we honestly couldn't care less about, but our children love hearing about green eggs and ham while being tucked in because they feel safe in hearing our voices. We are forced to finish a full day routine in 24 hours and sometimes we barely have space to take a deep breath and count to ten. Our routines become so repetitive that we don't even care about the dishes that have been sitting in the sink since the night before, but at least we have that few seconds to enjoy a daily laugh in disbelief of how much our children resemble us. We are working parents who are providing for the children of the future. Lets face it, some day our kids can be the president of the United States or possibly work at McDonald's for the rest of their lives, but in the end we've learned to balance being a parent and having a career and someday our children will have the same bitter yet sweet struggle of having children while successfully managing to have a career.