What it's like to be a mom on the Upper West Side of New York City

Raising children in New York City's Upper West Side isn't easy, Emily Prawda-Weiss told Business Insider (and she spoke from experience).Prawda-Weiss manages her household and takes care of her kids while her husband works for a Wall Street bank.Despite the hustle and bustle, NYC has some perks: Prawda-Weiss takes her kids to the theater and surrounds them with cultural diversity. She also gets to attend networking sessions and panels exclusive to the area. Here's a day in the life of a mom on the Upper West Side.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.Being a mom is a tough job.While many assume going to work means sitting at a desk all day, moms need to take care of managing the household, caring for their kids, cleaning the home — and often on top of a career. Read more: Something interesting happened when Bill Gates started driving his daughter to schoolEmily Prawda-Weiss knows the challenges of raising children as a working mom first hand. Prawda-Weiss resides in New York City's Upper West Side, one of the busiest (and most expensive) neighborhoods in the country. Since her husband works at a bank during the day, Prawda-Weiss gets her girls ready for school and works from home for Big City Moms, a website for expectant mothers.Prawda-Weiss, who grew up in Brooklyn, feels comfortable with the commotion in New York City: she juggles much of the cooking, housework, and caretaking, while working from home full-time in the country's most populous city.“No matter what, a mom is working hard because of the emotional labor she takes with her day-to-day, because she has to manage a family and manage a household as well,” Prawda-Weiss said in an interview with Business Insider.Here's what the life of a mom on NYC's Upper West Side is actually like.