Life in 2020: A dad, his son, and a realization of his true priorities
, a series of stories about our lived experiences in 2020, as told to Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff. Parents feeling overwhelmed and burnt out by the burden of child care during the Covid-19 pandemic has been a consistent theme of 2020, and with good reason. When you’re trying to work a full-time job and be a full-time parent, it can often feel impossible to do either to the best of your abilities. But when I talked to Robert, who lives in Manhattan and works as a data scientist, I was struck by how he reframed this idea. In the past, he spent so much of his time commuting that he m...