Kim Holderness
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Yeah.
Like maybe don't do it.
Like maybe do something else.
yesterday it seems like it's been a long like it took me a long time to get to this job we had the perfect person to break this all down okay she's an award-winning journalist a former wall street journal work and life columnist she wrote a piece for the new york times opinion section called parents consider underachieving uh in it she writes i'm just so tired and so bad at crafts i dream of the day we can all take it down a notch without shame skipping an event here and there ignoring a made-up holiday there what i need is a quorum
Rachel is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Connecticut with her husband and two kids and has apparently decided to take on the whole overachieving parent industrial complex.
Welcome to the show, Rachel.
Okay.
So you're the highlight, by the way.
Oh, okay.
Good to know.
Yeah.
So you're in the middle of Maycember.
Uh, what are you dealing with?
Give us, give us a rundown of what your Maycember looks like.
Oh, there's like 500 kids.
But it's like a drive in.
Yeah.
It's a, it's a drive in patriotic event.
Wow.
That's very unique to your school.