B. Keywords.

mothers, child, balance, early years, concrete support, peripheral vision, one-track mind.

Vocabulary.

oftentimes, proposition, inclined, meditation, peripheral, airheads, one-track mind.

Beth Saavedra, author of Meditations for New Mothers, is being interviewed by Irene Rawlings on her perspective on working mothers. Listen carefully and answer the following questions briefly.
It's a big challenge for mothers today, because oftentimes mothers feel like it's an either or proposition that they have to work or have a child.
And the reality is more women are choosing to do both, and also not be superwomen.
So it's a tricky, it's a tricky line to balance.
But I do have a quote that says "to choose to have a child is to choose forever to have your heart walk outside your body", which means, just as we've been talking about that you are constantly attached to your child, not matter how old they get.
But you'll learn to walk those lines. and you'll learn to create balance and harmony in your life, and you'll realize that not everything you do is going to send your child to a therapist. And that's wonderful.
Yes, yes. I've just always felt that if you loved them hard enough, and that you had...your heart kind of in the right place, which obviously is outside your body, that there was very little that...that you could do wrong. I mean you...
Yes, I think that's true. I think if you build a solid foundation with your child, especially in the early years, and...
How early are we talking "early years?" I mean by what point is the child's personality formed already?
Well, you know there's a lot of information on that that definitely is conflicting.