A mother-son baseball game. Ballet and tap dance performances. A poetry publishing party. A xylophone concert. All in the middle of a work day. Separate workdays. In May and June. That’s a lot of time to take off from the office.

A recent Associated Press article highlighted the madness that plagues working parents who scramble to attend kid-related activities and quoted several moms, including Liz Lange, founder and creative director of Liz Lange Maternity about the dilemma. “[I]t’s about constantly having to reschedule important meetings and feeling mortified about the amount of times I have to say that the reason is kid-related,” Lange said. “I fear that to non-parents it must sound not true!”

Writer Jocelyn Noveck added, “[A]s thousands of working parents across the country know, this can be the cruelest season of the year, logistically speaking, when dozens of these end-of-the-school-year events collide with work obligations, over and over again.”

Over on the Wall Street Journal’s parenting blog, Sara Schaefer Munoz asked working parents how you handle your children’s activity AFTER school has ended for the year. (June 2008)