Jonquilyn Hill

But we're living longer, which means grandparents are getting added to the sandwich, too.

Basically, it's becoming a club sandwich.

Faith Hill covered this phenomenon over at The Atlantic, where she's a staff writer.

How have the expectations for what parents are supposed to be doing for their children changed?

And how does that factor into all of this?

Yeah, you know, on one hand, this does sound new.

But I also know a ton of people who are, like, raised by their grandmas.

Who is this new for, you know?

In a lot of ways, it sounds like a lot of these older caregivers are experiencing the same kind of burnout younger caregivers are.

But I wonder, like, is there a difference in the way these two groups of people are coping and handling this?

Is this a distinctly American problem?

Like, how are people in other countries coping?

The way our system is set up means that we'll need to keep depending on each other.

But how do we do that and care for ourselves at the same time?

That's up next.

Yeah.

So the peaks and slumps throughout the day, we have all been there.

So that's mostly because of our circadian rhythm.

It's basically the cycle our body goes through in a 24 hour time period.

And it controls things like metabolism, hormones and energy.