Parents Burn Out Trying To Keep Up With School Volunteer Demands

Moms Burn Out Trying To Keep Up With School Volunteer Demands

It was last spring, somewhere between overseeing Teacher Appreciation Week and planning the fifth-grade graduation party, when Jamie Lentzner, mother of two in Foster City, Calif., reached her breaking point.

She had already designed the fifth-grade T-shirt, taught art twice monthly to three different classes, and organized movie night, restaurant night and beach night fund-raisers. She was overscheduled and exhausted.

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