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Boundaries and being #1...
Last night Wife Swap (I admit I watched it... but American Idol wasn't on) had a real estate agent wife swap with a fun-loving wife. The agent put her job first and it looked like the main bonding time was when the young kids cleaned their office ( a hubby/wife team). Her kids were polite, darling, and lonely.  They said they felt like crying inside. They knew her job came before them.
I don't care how busy of an agent you are, there is no excuse for putting your kids second.
When I first had kids, in the mid 80's, I wouldn't even admit to my clients that I had kids.  It was still a man's world, and I felt it showed weakness to show I had other non-work priorities that might interfere with their seeing a home. (Now I can't believe I felt that way, but I did.)  Even so... my hubby and I worked it out where I sold 20-30 houses a year when my kids were 3 & 5, yet spent a TON of time with them.  I was a super Mom. I worked at their parent participation pre-school, we did art, they learned to play rummy, we danced, and ... more

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