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...never occurred to Laurie Tennant that she would quit her job when she had kids. "Growing up, my friends dreamed of their weddings or of the families they would have," Tennant, 37, says. "I dreamed about my career." She loved her job as a director of human resources for the Northern California branch of a Big Six consulting company and went right back to work after her daughter Hannah was born in 1993. "I felt no pull from home when I was at work and no pull from work when I was at home. I felt perfectly balanced." Then...
...many ways, Tennant is a typical modern stay-at-home mother. More than 30 years after the feminist revolution of the 1960s sent women hurtling into the workplace, they remain torn by conflicting pressures from family and work. More than 80% of American women have a child at some point in their life, and most of those mothers must decide if and when to return to work. It's a decision many make not once but a number of times as their families and job stresses change. More than half of married mothers with children under 18 do not work...
...Tennant agreed. " I learned about rotational energy. I've never seen a juggling show that had to do with science...
...occasionally loses his temper, never loses his quiet wit. There is about him a sort of watchful wariness, a thoughtful, insinuating manliness that avoids macho strutting in favor of bemused calculation. He is, in short, an absolute monarch for our postfeminist time. Cutting through the epic gesturings of Andy Tennant's direction, he provides reason enough to return one last time to this otherwise weary romance...
...When she gets a headache, Tennant turns to essential oils; to stay awake, Tennant makes herself a cup of peppermint...