1.   But, speaking by cell phone as she chauffeurs her two eldest children to school, Bening sounds pretty much like any pleasantly harried working parent.

2.   For many harried working parents, those numbers leave little choice.

3.   For the harried parent or career-climbing single trying to stretch minutes and money, quesadillas can be a quick and economical meal.

4.   Harried parents have been driving from store to store in search of Beanie Babies and Sing and Snore Ernies, which have sold out all over the country.

5.   Harried parents are desperate for the reprieve that these nonhuman babysitters provide.

6.   Her message to harried parents was to ease off on the pressure and sometimes allow children to just daydream.

7.   Remember harried parents?

8.   Since January, a consortium of Bay Area employers has been running a pilot program to spare harried parents the nightmare of coping with such family emergencies.

9.   The company is also searching for ways to please harried parents who are tired of navigating its mammoth, and often dated, stores.

10.   Uprisings by harried parents have begun.