I'm a mom of 5 and thought work would get easier as the kids got older. I was wrong.

The author (not pictured) says she got more work done when her kids were young.

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• I'm a mom of five kids ranging from ages 5 to 17.
• I thought having teens would be easier than having toddlers for my career.
• Turns out teens are even more demanding, and I need to give myself grace.

As the mother of five kids, four of whom were born in six years, I have spent all of my 17 years of parenting working from home in some capacity. And in those 17 years...