Carina O’Brien
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first heard May 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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Working Mumma · Wondering If You Should Increase Your Work Days? 5 Signs It's Time · 1 Jul 2026
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And I have
To say I actually enjoyed the time together way more.
I don't know that's everyone's going to have a different view.
Um, but for me, I actually found because I knew that I didn't have all this time in the world and I knew that my son was going to school in about 12 months' time, that this was our time, that we needed to make the most of it.
And but I've then had subsequently then I had a couple of years where my
Now five year old.
who's actually doing kinda now, uh, and not available anymore on a Monday, unfortunately.
But we had a day together.
Yes, we still caught up with friends at the park, but we also did things just us.
And even to this day, he says, Mum, I just want a day with you and I.
Um, yes, that does pull up the heartstrings and make things at times quite difficult, particularly with childcare drop off.
Um, but I also knew that there wasn't this leftover day that I could, oh look, that's fine.
You know, what what are we gonna do?
It was our day.
And so it's one of those things of quality over quantity and you speak to different parenting people like Jenmu and uh even Maggie Dent, they say you don't have to be perfect or even try to be perfect.
There's no such thing.
But even if you're trying to get it right, I think it's about thirty or forty percent of the time, and actually, you know, spending that time, that's what matters.
That's what the kids need.
So I think there also that notion you need to be there a hundred percent of the time.
I actually, as I said, I found that it was quality over quantity.
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