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Solutions for Working Parents
Mom’s grabs her briefcase and her coffee and begins to get in the car. She turns to Dad and says,
“I’m so exhausted and overwhelmed, I have no idea how I’m going to make through the week! The kid’s were horrible all weekend and sending them to timeout didn’t seem to change anything! We can’t let them get away with acting like that, but I have no idea how to change it! Don’t forget, I’ll be late again I have a meeting. Tim needs a note saying he’s sorry for hitting Jack at preschool, and Sarah’s in timeout after school for pinching the baby at breakfast!”
Lots of working parents are overwhelmed with misbehavior at home and responsibilities at work, leaving them no time or energy to do the one thing that would relieve most of the tension in their lives— Solving the misbehavior at home!
These days pressure seems inescapable when you’re a working parent. ProActive Parenting can help by bringing step-by-step instructions, and how to implement those solutions, right into your business or corporate offices.
Most companies have a work-life-balance program to assist employees.
- ProActive Parenting brings 1-hour seminars, either by phone or in person, right into your company during lunchtime or at the end of the day at your on-site daycare center.
- By end of the lunch break parents have been empowered with new solutions and are ready to go home to make changes!
ProActive Parenting increases productivity too
A parents lack of energy and parental overwhelm not only affects his family, it affects his productivity at work, which ultimately trickles down and affects a company’s bottom line.
- By helping parents solve the issues that are draining them at home, you know the issues, the ones employees bring to work every single day, companies can have a more present and focused employee ready to tackle the job at hand instead of worrying about what’s going on at home or in daycare.
What the Statistics Say
- Your parents are continuing to have children.
“The 4,315,000 births in 2007, reported by the National Center for Health Statistics, gives just a glimpse of what's ahead in the nursery.”
When parents feel supported in their everyday lives they tend to stay where they are, creating less employee turn over.
- Your parents are dealing with a lot you don’t know about and it may be impacting their ability to parent.
“The Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics state that "85% of parents report that they feel moderate to high anger and agitation when dealing with toddler and preschool behavior and those feelings have also lowered their parental self-esteem.”
When parents are overwhelmed with parenting the results impact their ability to remain focused on work.
- Parents become truly loyal to their employers when their day care helps them with other areas of their lives.
“Parents who attend parenting seminars either through Work Life Balance programs or Day Care Center programs are the most committed to their employers and day care centers and the least likely to feel overwhelmed." A survey by DuPont of 18,000 employee
Helping parents learn new parenting techniques creates brand loyalty and can be used as an incentive in down turn economic times.
Here’s what others are saying:
“When employees don’t manage well, work suffers just as much as their lives off the job.”
Ellen Galinsky, President of the Families and Work Institute
“Wise businesses today realize this reality and are sharing the responsibility for finding solutions and helping parents/employees fix the problem. If employees have children and have to take care of the needs of those children, and they also have a job and need to be able to be at work and be focused, then what you ask yourself is, ‘What kinds of programs would help?'" Maureen Corcoran, Vice President of Diversity at Prudential
“The benefits that companies reap, better retention, more satisfied and engaged employees, show up in survey after survey. When you’re making the case for work-life to the CEO, it’s going to be pretty hard to dismiss these findings.” Kathie Lingle, Alliance for Work-Life Progress
“Today smart companies are retaining talent by offering employees programs to help them manage their work and personal life priorities.”Work/Life, Susan Caminiti, Fortune Magazine
For a list of companies and organizations that have invested in their employee’s productivity with a ProActive Parenting seminar, click here.
To help your employees remained focused while at work contact ProActive Parenting and bring our seminars to your business. Email: howard@proactiveparenting.net or call 520-219-8905.
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"Discipline expresses a parent's boundaries with the emotional volume turned down."
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