Parenthood can feel like a demand on time you barely have. Ryan is planning a wedding, and the baby question has already arrived. If your evenings are the one part of the day that still feels yours, how do you begin to imagine giving them up?
A free, one-night rec-centre program in New York offers parents a break while children take part in activities. It sounds like an answer to exhaustion. But is the larger problem a shortage of childcare, or the fear that family life will leave no room for anything else?
The word “losing” changes the stakes. Shane pushes back with another word for what happens to your time when you raise a child, and Ryan considers it. What changes when you question the assumption that those hours simply disappear?
Topics: parenthood, free time, childcare, family decisions, raising children
Originally aired on2026-09-23
