Is your job taking priority over your kids?
When you’re working full-time away from the home, sometimes it’s hard to find time for your other job – the one that deals with your kids. In other words, there’s little time for parenting.
If you’ve become a workaholic and your life is all about work, work, and work, now is the time to make some time for your kids.
Wouldn’t it be devastating to find out one day that your kids resent you for not being there for them?
The trick to preventing at least some of the resentment your kids might accumulate, is to spend more time with them.
But how? You’re already so busy…
Lifehacker gives 6 time-saving ideas to help busy parents like you make more time for parenting…
One of their useful ideas is to ask for household help instead of gifts.
Brilliant!
Let your relatives or friends save their money on buying gifts. Instead, on your next birthday or or gift-receiving type of holiday, let them know that what you’d like more than a physical gift is for them to come on over to help you with some housekeeping or organizing.
This way you’ll be able to take some time away from your already-busy schedule to just relax and have fun with your family. Maybe even take your kids out to the park.
For more great tips like this one, follow the original link below.
How do you balance the two jobs of working outside the home and being a parent at home? Has your job interfered with your parenting job at all? Tell us about it in the comments below…
Six Ways For Working Parents To Spend More Time Parenting [Lifehacker]
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