Ask the Children: The Breakthrough Study That Reveals How to Succeed
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The first comprehensive study asking children and their mothers and fathers for their family views on work and family life offers dozens of proven strategies busy families can use to feel more successful at work and at home. Noted work-family researcher Ellen Galinsky overtunes accepted thinking on quality vs. quantity time and many other guilt-inducing myths, reveals children's one greatest wish for changing how work affects their parents' lives, shares relationship stories of how families stay close, and outlines a brilliant new set of operating principles to navigate work-family challenges, including: Proven tactics for enhancing life at work Ways to de-stress at work and at home How to encourage family communication-and what to say to do once you have your child's attention How to decode the messages your children are getting about the world and work Simple family traditions that foster well-adjusted children And much more
Author: Ellen Galinsky
Format: Paperback, 416 pages, 135mm x 206mm, 349 g
Published: 2000, Harper Paperbacks
Genre: Pregnancy & Parenting
The first comprehensive study asking children and their mothers and fathers for their family views on work and family life offers dozens of proven strategies busy families can use to feel more successful at work and at home. Noted work-family researcher Ellen Galinsky overtunes accepted thinking on quality vs. quantity time and many other guilt-inducing myths, reveals children's one greatest wish for changing how work affects their parents' lives, shares relationship stories of how families stay close, and outlines a brilliant new set of operating principles to navigate work-family challenges, including: Proven tactics for enhancing life at work Ways to de-stress at work and at home How to encourage family communication-and what to say to do once you have your child's attention How to decode the messages your children are getting about the world and work Simple family traditions that foster well-adjusted children And much more