This nails the impossible position parents are in right now. That bit about missing the ambulance call while trying to practice phone discipline is such a perfect example of how the advice to "just disconnect" ignores caregiving realities. I work in tech and see this same disconnect between executives who can delegate monitoring emails and everyone else who can't just opt out. The mango cake ending is the right notetoo, like small wins matter when the bigger stuff feels unsolvable.
This nails the impossible position parents are in right now. That bit about missing the ambulance call while trying to practice phone discipline is such a perfect example of how the advice to "just disconnect" ignores caregiving realities. I work in tech and see this same disconnect between executives who can delegate monitoring emails and everyone else who can't just opt out. The mango cake ending is the right notetoo, like small wins matter when the bigger stuff feels unsolvable.
Yes. Not at all as simple as just disconnecting, unless someone’s offering me an assistant…