Laney Crowell

You're building your dreams.

That's going to teach her that she can go out and build her dreams and make sacrifices.

Go on, let's do this, right?

Yeah.

And I do, I listen, I don't get huge amounts of time with my kids every day, but it's like when I'm there, I'm in it.

Right.

And I feel like that is really important.

Just having that concentrated moment because your kid feels that they know when they are the center of what is happening versus when you're highly distracted.

And so

For me, it's like the trade-off has been, okay, if the time is limited, we're going to make the time that I am there really matter.

I mean, first of all, so much that you just said in those last three sentences, people really don't like talking about having help.

And I think it's the single biggest privilege of my life that I have so much help with my kids and around the house.

And I know that from a young age when I couldn't afford much, just having someone that would come once a week and clean my house.

Right.

I am always about outsourcing whatever I can, whether it was like meal prep back in the day, like whatever I could.

And I think that we've got to take the shame out of that because wherever women can get a little bit of help, if it's a neighbour, it's carpooling, it's deciding that one week you're going to do something and you've got two other mums that you switch with, you've got to take it.

Like to me, there is no shame in that game.

And if you can pay to make some of the heavy work disappear as a mother...

Like, why not?

Why would you not do that?