This is Awkward with Virginia Sole-Smith
Work Appropriate
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How to Be a More Compassionate Person When Working While Parenting
I have a coworker who spends a significant part of our company staff calls talking about how hard working while parenting is. She announced that her kid had to poop and then returned to say she was done wiping butts. Now I have three kids and remember the madness of toddlers. But I also don't want to hear about poopy butts on a professional call. Is airing home life challenges as part of our work interactions a healthier way to be? Please help me not be an unsympathetic jerk to this fellow mom.
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