“ The Magic Window” ran continuously from 1951 through 1994. Although she had never been in a television studio before and had only been on the job for two days, McVay took over as host of “ The Magic Window”, which would become America's longest-running local children's program. It was the first commercial television station in the United States to be owned by a major college. At that time, WOI-TV was owned and operated by Iowa State University and had just signed on the air on February 21, 1950. In late 1954, after being contacted by WOI-TV managers, McVay left her teaching job and went to work in television. She took a job teaching literature and speech at the high school in Port Washington, Wisconsin.Īn acquaintance of McVay's who attended the University of Wisconsin, Platteville and worked at WOI-TV in Ames, Iowa suggested her as a host for a television show. After graduation, McVay returned to her hometown, Platteville, and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in teaching. After the war, McVay moved to Madison and attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology with a minor in English literature. The family lived in Platteville during WWII as McVay completed public school. Her father was a popular local optometrist and sportsman and her mother was a housewife. Her parents, Glen and Louise McVay, moved to the small town of Platteville, Wisconsin later that same year. Magical window, meet fullness of presence.Varnum was born in Chicago. But True Refuge the spiritual teacher Tara Brach offers up one of my favorite descriptions of love: Now I know we all love our kids unconditionally.
Or gut-checking one’s untethered ambition.īut there’s a simple way to make the most of the magical window. It could involve renegotiating WFH options. And everyone will have different constraints and pathways for navigating their magical window. With 3 ladies in the house, they might force dad out anyways!)įor Jeremy, it meant forgoing income and growth by not accepting new clients. (And I’m 100% open to re-entering the workforce once the magical window has passed.
The magic window drove me away from the corporate 9-to-5 and into internet entrepreneurship – which is by no means a silver bullet – but a career where I could own my own time.
“As a dad to small kids, I sometimes think that we all have it backwards: we spend our 30s and 40s working hard towards career goals, when in reality it’s this time that’s most valuable with our children! Perhaps we should all coast through our middle years then work hard when the kids start heading out on their own.” RadReader Jeremy Walter echoed this sentiment in his moving post titled Enough. Then once I hit my fifties, I could ease off the accelerator.īut I wanted to go all-in on the magical window. So presumably, that was the time for me to double-down on career, build the nest egg and grow the college fund. (Side note: in another essay, I’ll explore why I think “peak earnings” is BS.)
CHILDRENS MAGIC WINDOW FULL
I never questioned what that phrase really meant, but in my case I was a newly minted Managing Director with (what felt like) unbounded energy and with my full health. I was 34 years old when my first child was born, which seems to coincide with the peak earnings phase of my life. Yet this advice does comes with a quagmire. But now that I’m fully ensconced in parenthood – this window is undeniable. Now I really try to avoid approaching life with a scarcity mindset. Now it doesn’t mean that they don’t love you as much. There’s no one on earth they’d rather be with. They wait by the door for you to come home like a puppy. “There’s a magical window – 8 to 12 years – during which you and your wife are their absolute favorite people in the world. It’s a story about the magical window of parenthood:
“Surviving is winning,” is most definitely hard-wired into my cranium.īut now that they can wipe their own butts and sleep through the night, the survivalist mindset has eased. I got a lot of advice when my first child was born nearly seven years ago.
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