I Know How She Does It: A Review and Q&A with Laura Vanderkam

Not long after my second child was born I went back to work. I was grateful to have a new job, thrilled for the opportunity to be back on a trading floor and determined that having young sons would not hold me back. One day shortly after I returned to work my nanny called — and I know you saw this coming — to say that she had been sick all morning and could not longer watch my boys.

There is no way I could tell my boss that I was leaving work, so I did the only thing I could and called my hus...