Disclosure: As a member of Netflix’s Stream Team, I bring tips and tricks and more streaming know-how than a raging river. (Or at least a comparable level.) Although I’m compensated, all thoughts, opinions, and ‘Trolls’ earworms are entirely my own.
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Here’s a gigantic news flash for anyone who’s been a parent longer than one commercial break: Parents need time to themselves and- if you’ll pardon the momentary gender bias- mamas need time to themselves (and sometimes sneak it in the form of Netflix “me” time).
Need some examples? Want to feel better about your own work/life balance skills?
Here are three things I’ve actually done:
(…While actually in charge of my living, breathing, fully awake offspring.)
- Folded laundry. A lot of laundry. So much laundry, in fact, that the entire third season of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries was completed in a day and a half. (What can I say? I love laundry.)
- Before going out with other adults, watched 2-minute snippets of John Mulaney and Hasan Minhaj’s standup specials if only to have grownup-type, funny things to say and reference and generally know about. (See also: Jim Gaffigan and Aziz Ansari.)
- Sat on the bathroom floor and mainlined non-linear scenes from Twin Peaks to get the Trolls soundtrack out of my brain. (It’s trolllllllllstice!)
I’m not alone. (I mean, I was during the bathroom, but…)
Netflix conducted a pretty spiffy poll to see how (and why) Moms took their Netflix Me Time.
So now I ask YOU, as my pals and readers, how do you vote?
And an even harder question:
To my fellow mamas out there: May your connection be lightning-fast, your quiet time extend to the credits, and spills be kept to a minimum until your return.
(Hair up.)
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