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Hacking Motherhood

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Welcome to my blog! I'm Tova, a Canadian mom of 2 living children (see my memorial blog for my loss story)  Photo Credit  Ana Castro Photo Stories At the time that I'm posting this, Elliot is 6 and Clara is 4.  Most of my great parenting hacks are cobbled together with tape and glue, learned from wise friends, adapted from "methods", remembered from my childhood, and made up on the spot.  The systems of running a household dovetail nicely with my actual work background of training and project management and organization. At work this is a highly valued skill, where you are paid real money and invited to meetings, where people almost never pick their nose, and generally follow your plans.  In a typical heterosexual family, this project management is almost invisible; has no perceived value, and is generally dismissed by western society as a whole, despite being critical for the family structure, and is how millions of workers all over the world are able to dedicate th