Double Daddy By Penny Parker

Sooner or later in life, we will inevitably face the question that asks if we have it all. One may respond with a question: “What does it all mean?” According to the article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” author Anne-Marie Slaughter defines it all as “work-family balance” (678). It means to have both career and family at the same time. And the consensus of our society has agreed with her definition of it all. We live in a society where we are raised to grow up to have a career and a family. Correspondingly, we will likely raise our children with the same tenet, and the cycle repeats. Our society dictates that work-family balance is what defining it all. However, not everyone agrees with the society’s or

In a collection of articles unlike the other books we have read, The Harvard Business Review along with the School of Business at the university did a five year research on the connection and balance between work and life outside of work. But it also looks at the higher end of the social ladder. They look at executives of company’s worldwide. Like I said, this edition of the HBR is a series of articles that go from a deep look into the “mommy-track” to different future looks on prospective jobs, and details the path of employees of all levels on how to understand the tricky and

superlative, the inability to reach expectations, the shift in priority as children grow in a different

Within this article there is an example story about a father who used to work in financing. But he realized his family was more important. So he quit his job got another one where he would be able to see his family more often. This article gave people a new insight on how other families live their lives, it was a very enjoyable article.

Strollo Holbrook can be identified as a ‘professional multitasker’. A problem among working mothers is the ability to balance their family with their work. Compared to men who work fulltime jobs, “the common finding is that woman in paid employment generally spend more hours per day on household duties than do their male counterparts” (Carnahan 178). Dr. Strollo Holbrook is a very well-rounded individual that states the following as to what is the most important thing to her, “I measure my quality of life by the people around me that I love. Whether its my family, work, music, or even my twelve hens a good balance is the key to a good life.” When everything seems out of sorts Dr. Strollo Holbrook is very good at pushing through them by utilizing her resources and self-reflecting. When asked what keeps her up at night, Dr. Strollo Holbrook responded in a selfless way. Millennial’s are constantly hearing how we are the worst generation yet, but we didn’t create this world. Our parents did. “The increasingly alarming world that we live in is alarming, and we are leaving it for the millennial’s to put it back together.” Living in a predominately male household she frequently encounters getting teamed up on by her son and husband, and hen this occurs she calls her sister to have some “girl time.” Also she has had episodes of worrying about her son and his values. One of the most vital lessons that she is trying to pass down to her son is, “first

From “breaking ice to get water for washing” (Walker 311) to getting “up early” (Hayden 1) to make “banked fires blaze” (Hayden 5), it is no secret that parenting can be a physically-demanding job. By making sure their children simply survive, parents often push emotional and mental “offices” (Hayden 14) to the side. In “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden and “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, this phenomenon occurs, as the parent-child relationships are extremely traditional. Both works of fiction can teach parents that while putting food on the table is certainly a duty of caregivers, it takes a lot more than “man-working hands” (Walker 311) to raise a child. Today’s parents should learn from the mistakes of traditional parenting and opt

The Work-Life Balance: The career life and the personal life sometimes lead anxiety to women as they have to handle both their workplace and home at the same time smoothly.

If your work life is stressful, overwhelming, and you have a had a hard time at work recently, it will cross over and affect your family life if you do not have a balance between the two. If you are having a marital conflict, like filing for a divorce, it can affect your mood that you have at work and you will not work as well as you have in the past. Balance is a great work, every time I think of balancing work and family I think of a weighting scale (the one with the stand in the middle and the two bowls, one on each side of the stand), this visual helps me see how an unbalanced work and family life can negatively effect everyone around

A woman at the top of the corporate ladder, like Sheryl Sandberg, has the means to provide a nanny for her children while she is at work, a privilege that many women who hold multiple jobs to provide for their families do not have. Sandberg is a great proponent of women “leaning in,” seeking to follow their ambitions, while figuring out how to strike a balance with personal life. She is a remarkable female advocate, but it is important to note that a woman of her stature is essentially a minority. With her vast wealth, it is likely much easier to balance the home aspect, as money provides her with these resources. Unfortunately, the reality is that many working women may not have this financial comfort blanket; this is not to say these struggling working women should not try to balance their lives, they should--it may just be more

Past research indicated that characteristics of many jobs in conjunction with the workplace can negatively affect family life, while aspects of an employee's family situation can influence worker’s performance and behaviors toward work. This increased the incidence of stress and burnout leading to

In addition, their responsibilities may interfere with family relationships. The man has to support their family with everything. I remember that since my mom and dad got married. Dad has been working and gave us everything we wanted. We used to give all to me and my sister. But we didn’t spend so much quality time with our dad because he was always working. It will cause that dad and daughter or son feel disappointed because they hardly spend time and good moments together. The passage makes it clear why sometimes men can't share so much time with the family because they have to be worrying about supporting of their Family. The article states that children who don't spend quality time with their dad tend to be emotional effect. Finally, man who doesn't share time with the family they tend to be upset with

Under the current economic situation and the family structure, most couples have found that it is necessary for both members of the family to stay at work once they have started a family. This can make for non-work related items to intrude on the working day.

Some ways society may respond to help reduce the problems that arise when both parents work include: lengthening maternity leave for mothers and fathers, providing more vacation time, and more affordable childcare. With a lengthened maternity leave for mothers and fathers, it will alleviate stress that occurs for new parents. Along with this, a longer maternity leave will allow for parents to get everything in order at home before returning to work. If more vacation time was allotted to parents, they would be able to spend more time with their family as well. With more time spent together as a family, one could hope that less problems would arise with both parents working. Lastly, if childcare was made more affordable, parents may be able to

Superdads are men who makes huge changes to their work lives and put more focus on their roles as a father (Kaufman 2013). By putting the roles as father it includes changing positions, changing careers, quitting jobs, taking on shift work, adopt flexible work schedules, starting their own business and working from home (Kaufman 2013). There are superdads and single superdads being notice in this paper. Superdads put their children well-being before themselves. They make the work schedule around their children so they can be able to spend more time with their children. Everything they do it is for what is best for their kids. Superdads have the help from the wife/mother. The father may make his work schedule base on his wife

When the mother is stressed and exhausted from handling these multiple roles it is also said to affect the child in that they will also feel stressed from feeding off the mother’s attitude. Dr. Rosalind Barnett stated in her article, Women and Multiple Roles: Myths and Reality, that a common myth centers on “the underlying assumption that the roles of wife and mother are ‘natural’ roles and are therefore performed without undue stress”, and that the role of being employed is “seen as ‘unnatural’ and therefore highly demanding” leading to the belief that mother’s and wives should remain in the traditional role that society has set for them (2004:158). The message a lot of women are receiving from society is that they are selfish in pursuing “other” dreams, when they should be taking their role of mother and wife as the main job. Barnett explained that the message women commonly hear is “children of working mothers, especially during the crucial early years, will suffer a range of problems from insecure attachment to inappropriate externalizing behaviors” (2004:160). However, as Barnett points out, contrary to society’s perceptions of mothers working, the consistent findings in various studies, including cross-sectional and longitudinal studies, showed that a working mother with multiple roles “exhibited better mental and physical health” and consequently felt less stressed and less anxious overall (2004:160).