A job is a task or piece of work that one is paid for depending on the income to provide a shelter and be able to feed the loved ones they withhold in their home. Repeatedly working so many hours week after week without a minute to spend on themselves. Sacrificing important memories and time to fight for a better future for their kids. As we dive deeper into “I’ve Picked My Job over My Kids” written by Lara Bazelon, it proves that a mother values her job more than spending quality time with her children. Missing important events that create special memories. Going a long distance for a client, but not for her own children. Though, spending time with kids is valuable, creating a strong bond between the child and parent. Being able to help the …show more content…
Rather than losing the sense of being empty and not being able to achieve anything. Having the motivation to feel something important and that is valuable to them. As well as going “went long stretches without seeing my children” to fight for an innocent client that was locked up (Bazelon 337). Illustrate that she would go to the extremes for her clients, but also sacrifice her own time to spend with her children that she dearly loves. Leaving them with family members that dearly care about them as well as her. Bazelon is not a bad mom, as she appears. Since she is a single mother, she values her job to “support myself and my children”, providing them with shelter and fulfilling their appetite (Bazelon 378). She values her job to be able to support her children and give them a better life, even though she misses a few bonding sessions. She still tries to be there for them when she can, as a mother would. It shows that those kids are a gem for her, they might not appreciate her decisions, but when they turn to adults, they will notice the things that Bazelon has to sacrifice. She missed meetings to take her “kids to the park or a museum, and picked them up early to go to karate class” to spend time with them (Bazelon 378). Highlights that she missed valuable meetings and denied job offers to spend more time with her children. Fixing all of the time she lost them while working so much and being a long distance away from them. Dashing out of work, “rushed over to school” to see her little boy present (Bazelon 379). Signaling her passion to be there for her kids. Concluding, that Bazelon is not a bad mother, but she is a mother that kept on taking as many job offers as an attorney to provide for her kids as a single mother. She may not attend her family sessions, but she holds that guilt of not being present deep inside and blames herself for it. The love that she holds within her kids defeats the value of her job being