Today’s guest post is brought to you by James Chartrand, blogger extraordinare from Men with Pens. We’re excited to have him join us for two main reasons: one, his blog almost always opens my eyes up to some wonderful information; and two, he is male. Yes, the male perspective is often sadly lacking on Freelance Parent, so it’s our honor to have him join us today.

If you’re reading this, you’re probably an eParent, which puts you up there with Superman, the Green Lantern and all those other great heroes of the Marvel Comic world. In the blink of an eye, you can rip off your pajama mentality and convey your powerful online personality of Freelance Worker Extrordinaire.

You are eParent (!!), superhero of the crashed-together worlds of Vale of Virtual and Havoc of Household.

But you probably feel like a version of Mr. Incredible, the disillusioned, depressed has-been of the Superhero world. You’re probably incredibly frazzled, incredibly tired, incredibly worn-out and incredibly close to snapping. And that’s on a good day.

Oh come on, let’s be honest, here. That smooth, sophisticated, suave eParent doesn’t exist. Those magazine ads extolling sleek, successful mothers in power suits or Adonis-like fathers who can handle business as well as they can handle baseball?

They don’t exist – not in the eParent world.

eParents are electronically wired into a digital world, furiously blazing through work to make the rent while they single-handedly wipe up baby spit with one hand without even taking their eyes off the email.

They can whip out an arm to protect Wee Wilbur’s head from the Impending Strike of Doom from Terrible Toddler Number 2. Without even blinking an eye or dropping the polite tone they’re using for the telephone conversation.

They can create a complete aura of “I’ve got it all together and under control” while internally clocking just how long they have left to wrap up the client call before All Hell Breaks Loose.

eMom, eDad… It makes no difference. Gender isn’t an issue where eParent is concerned. Joined together as a virtual community while still remaining completely isolated by Civilized People, eParents accept each other openly, thrilled that someone Finally Understands.

And eParents dominate the trailblazing of the Internet, zooming forth on our high-speed connections as pioneers seeking the solution to survival for Home Workers. As eParents, we set the standard for all new, tentative eParents testing their cables and routers for the first time.

We are creating a rich lore of wisdom and experience, a tried-and-true success story for our children who will follow in our digital footprints. We are leaders, discovering and exploring how to blend digital living with Life on Earth for the benefit of generations to come.

Maybe we are incredible after all.

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