Svetlana Lakusheva/Getty ImagesMy toddler is stuffy-nosed and feverish, so I cancel the sitter who was supposed to watch him during my virtual meeting. It would be rude to expose her to a cold. Which means I’ll take the meeting with my toddler in the background. I don’t have a choice — it’s a meeting I can’t miss. Maybe he’ll sleep. Or play quietly through it.Wishful thinking.When 1:00 p.m. rolls in, he’s clingy and wide awake, so I take the meeting outside, hoping that fresh air in nature will buy me an hour. “Hi, I just want to flag that my toddler will be in the background today,” I begin....

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