The New Self-Help

The Hidden Struggles of Working Parents Are Now Live in Video Chat

It’s time to stop pretending our kids don’t exist

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6 min readMar 19, 2020

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Book jacket cover of Expecting Better by Emily Oster

This story is part of The New Self-Help: 21 Books for a Better You in the 21st Century.

A few days ago, not long after my co-workers and I were banned from the office because of the…

Emily Oster

Written by Emily Oster

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Forge

Professor of Economics, Brown University. Author: Expecting Better and CRIBSHEET (April 2019). Goal: creating a world of more relaxed pregnant women and parents

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