My parents were outgoing, hospitable people, their friends culled from among my father's associates at the office and from the women who along with my mother had helped to organize the Parent-Teacher Association at newly built Chancellor Avenue School, where my brother and I were pupils.

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My standard answer is that I have the same struggles as any working parent but with the good fortune to be working in my dream job.

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One of my first steps was to set up a meeting with the Kansas Parent Information Resource Center (KPIRC) to discuss our approach to involving families.

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Full disclosure: I spend a ton of time with my children, never travel, barely work and am a helicopter parent like you can't believe, and yet even I hired a baby nurse, because newborns are scary little aliens who look like you might smoosh them at any moment.

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And yet I, my wife and nearly every other parent I know resorts to this tactic with appalling regularity.

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