#parent-support

#parent-support

I spent my daughter's senior year in what felt like survival mode. It was a year of constant decisions and deadlines, culminating in four years of planning. There were dozens of essays for college and scholarship applications, SATs, an artistic portfolio, supplemental applications, and departmental interviews. We had to complete all of this while managing an extremely rigorous senior year with AP classes, dual enrollment courses, and a calendar full of extracurriculars.

Jamie O'Day reveals that when feeling overwhelmed as a mother, her go-to strategy for self-care is to lock herself in the bathroom to take a breather. By turning on the shower, faucet, and fan, she creates a calming environment while she takes deep breaths and strategizes her parenting approach in under ten minutes.

As a parent, I know that the combined pressures of family life and work can often feel impossible to juggle. That is why our manifesto promised to make parents lives easier and put more money in their pockets with free breakfast clubs.