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Article: Tilting for the children; Questioning the priorities of working parents.(OPED)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 2, 2004
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Byline: Suzanne Fields, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
My mom was a full-time mother and I was the envy of my classmates. Not just because she was there, but because she was there and she was fun. She might be baking a chocolate cake and she would let us nibble the raw dough from the Mixmaster bowl. She listened to us recite the lines we had to memorize from Romeo and Juliet. She might play the nurse or Friar Lawrence.
In high school years, everybody descended on my house after classes to plot campaigns for class officers, plan class picnics or gossip about who was going out with whom. My father would breeze in to talk about the Redskins (more fun to talk about in ...