The dilemma of caring for parents and parenting kids simultaneously : Many of us are in the sandwich generation and need to do multi tasking of taking care of children and aging / ailing parents simultaneously apart from career related responsibilities. How to keep ourselves afloat by doing justice to all these responsibilities simultaneously is a big dilemma ? To equally divide the left over time ( after professional responsibility) between parents and children is a difficult task. A tilt in favour of one will make the other one unhappy and by any means if we are able to balance both the responsibilities, we are lost as there is no time for self. This problem has a unique solution. The relationship between our parents and children needs to be boosted in such a way that they become mutual care taker of each other and we provide all the support from the periphery . This will develop good values in the children and keep our parents happy as they will have emotional exchange with the younger generation. Only care needs to be taken is : the study and sports activities of the children is not disturbed.