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There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.

For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent.

Being a parent is the hardest job ever in life.

I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.

It can't be bad having a mother who is fulfilled by her work.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

Working from home as a mother is the worst of everything. You don't have clear boundaries. The kids can get used to you going to work; they can't get used to you ignoring them. And work sometimes gets the message you're not as committed.