#0015: Tips to integrate parenting in your busy work life

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Hey 👋 - Hello, there!! Hope you had a great week.

Traditionally parenting life starts with a morning rush for work and schools in each house. This is followed by a race to get home, make dinner, do homework, and get to bed so that it can start all over again the next day.

It's no wonder that families are feeling stressed and disconnected.

Kids are shaken up to eat, bathe, and catch the school bus. They are coming home to an empty house because both parents are working.

This daily cycle can hurt children's development and family relationships.

Some children when grow up feel very disconnected from their parents because they were not around when they were growing up and it's not fair to blame them.

Parents are realising that life is more than school and work

They are starting to see the importance of having a balance in their lives.

They are also seeing the importance of being present in their children's lives.

Many parents are now choosing to work from home so that they can spend more time with their children.

Why are most parents are choosing to integrate parenting with their work?

With integrated parenting, parents work from home or have flexible work hours so that they can be more present in their children's lives.

This type of parenting has many benefits for both parents and children. For parents, it allows them to have a more active role in their children's lives.

Benefits of integrated parenting

When work and parenting are separate, it can be easy to feel like you're always pulled in different directions. Having them be more integrated can help you feel like you're doing both well, rather than feeling like one is always suffering.

More and more parents are talking about how they feel like they can be more present for their kids when they have a more flexible work schedule.

If you want to read the full article on this topic, find the link at the end

Learning is more than schools, do you agree?

I have learned things from my parents, grandparents, friends, neighbors, books, and even strangers. My school has also taught me many things that are not just academic knowledge but also about life in general.

One of the most important things to remember about learning is that it's something we can all do, no matter our age or circumstances. It's never too late to learn something new, and there are endless opportunities to do so.

We can learn from books, movies, TV shows, conversations with friends, experiences at work – really, any situation where we're taking in information and processing it in some way. And the great thing about learning is that it can be fun!

When we're engaged in something we're interested in, the learning process is often more enjoyable and effective.

Here is a summary of a talk I heard recently:

How We Learn is More Important than What We Learn | Glenn Dakin

Glenn says that learning is a lifelong personal journey and skills that you need to learn to include how we write, listen, manage our time and how we plan to learn.

• Why are we writing, why are we listening? How do we make time to learn? A student needs to understand this because it sets the context for everything else that is learned.

• He says that our learning experience shapes the beliefs, confidence, and motivation of how we learn, and these beliefs influence our decisions.

• If we were made to believe in our school years that we are incapable of learning a topic or a subject, we will tend to agree with that and not bother trying to learn it.

• I strongly agree with his statement that' learning is a social and emotional experience' and therefore how we feel during the learning process matters just as much as what we are learning.

If you want to read the full article on this topic, find the link at the end

Connecting over good internet behavior:

Children come with assignments that need research to be done at home. I mostly notice that the skills to conduct the work are not taught but the expectation is that it will be done.

Children are required to go to the internet every other second to learn, research, and play.

I think that it is important for children to be taught some essential internet skills so that they can make the best use of them.

Some essential internet skills that children should be taught about internet:

• How to manage their time

• Not to reveal personal information to strangers

• Not to click on unknown links

• Not to download anything without permission

• When using information from websites, give credit to the source

• Always analyze the information they receive on the internet, not everything is true

• Keep passwords secure and do not share them with anyone

• They should be able to distinguish between official websites like UN, WHO, and personal blogs

• They should know the difference between facts, opinions, perspectives, etc.

• Asking for help when needed

cheers, Priyanka

Do check out the videos in the link below, to watch some amazing videos with your kid to have some interesting conversations and trust me one question leads to another.