All Entries in the "Working Parents" Category
Working From Home – Does It Distract You From Family Time?
Communication and technology being what it is today has made it possible for parents to work from home. This has enabled families to save precious time by cutting the physical commute to a telecommute and by reducing child care costs since the parent is present in the house to oversee the children.
However, those parents who [...]
Are You A Woman Working Part-Time? You Probably Have Healthier Kids
A recent Australian study has found that mothers who work part time are likely to have the healthiest kids; more so that women who either work full time or are stay at home moms.
According to researchers Jan Nicholson of Melbourne’s Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, those children whose mothers worked part time, were likely to watch [...]
Parents’ Work Conditions Affect Family Food Choices
A new study in Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior suggest that parents’ work schedule affect how they feed their family.
Since most of parents are employed, it was found that there are competing demands on their time that can compromise food choices for themselves and also for the family as well.
Carol M. Devine, PhD, RD, [...]
Working Parents: Anxiety Abounds
For many parents, the guilt and anxiety often overflows into all areas of their life.
Do they spend enough time with their children? Are their children suffering because the parents must work?
Do their children realize that the parents love them?
It may seem like unnecessary worries to some who don’t have children, but [...]
Report: Mothers Should Stay Home With Children
According to a report from the Children’s Society in Europe, many families are suffering because both parents are working considerably longer hours.
Women tend to be socially singled out as “abandoning” their children in order to work. The same social pressure is not placed on men.
The report points out that the unhappy, stressed [...]
Working Parents And Stress Management Methods
Did you know, were you aware, that stress can cause several disorders of the autonomic nervous system, and that headache you have been tolerating for the past week, that severe back pain, and the constant fatigue and irritability may all have been caused by simple stress?
Why do we all put [...]
Grandparents A Safe Source Of Childcare
For working parents, having grandparents as caregivers can cut the risk of childhood injury roughly in half, according to a new study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Compared to organized daycare or care by the mother or other relatives, having a grandmother watch a child was associated with a decreased [...]
How To Save Time If You Are A Working Parent?
Are you pressed for time? Are you somebody who wakes up in the morning and has to rush immediately?
You have the house to be cleaned, the kids to be dropped off at school, you have to get ready for work, and you still have not even finished making breakfast…!
Is it [...]
Tips To Lessen The Stress And Strain For Working Mom!
It will be challenging for the working woman to take care of their children
As a working woman, you need not collect the pay check. You are needed by some one to take care of them.
Every working woman should have the motto “saving your money, time and energy”.
What does the working [...]
Are You A Working Mother? Tips To Manage Child Care In The Right Way!
Being a working mother, you can feel difficult to manage all the things regarding the child and office in the right way.
But, it is not an impossible thing if you follow certain tips and tricks required to manage both the tasks in the correct way.
Tips and tricks that have to be followed if [...]
