Family work-balance is a complex issue which involves day to day demands
in professional front as well as in personal front. It is even more complex for
the working parents who have to juggle with multiple hands to fulfill the
various demands at working place and then have to cope up with kids’ schooling
activities and other family demands as well. In the age of busy lifestyles,
parents spend lot of energy trying to manage their time more effectively.
Hence, we would like to share our suggestions to provide parents a
well-balanced life between their work and their kids’ demands.
1.
Flexibility of Timings in
Office: Flexibility of timings is major requirement for working parents who need
to attend the basic needs of their children, as well as to engage in activities
that enhance their children’s academic performance, emotional and social
well-being.
Two types of flexible work practices seem especially well suited to
parents who work: flextime arrangements that allow parents to coordinate their
work schedules with their children’s school schedules, and policies that allow
workers to take short periods of time off—a few hours or a day or two—to attend
a parent-teacher conference, or care for a child who has suddenly fallen ill.
Many companies that have instituted such policies have benefited through
employees’ greater job satisfaction and employee retention.
2.
Organizations can also help
parents in providing quality time to their kids when highly requisite by
allowing them to work from home. This would enable working parents to meet their
job responsibilities and to build strong relationships with their children as
well.
3.
Special time period of 15-20
minutes should be allotted to the parents to have telephonic conversation or
Skype call with the kids at a particular time when children reach home from
their schools.
4.
Instead of parents rushing for the parents’
teacher meetings, school should make such kind of arrangements in which they can
have healthy conversation about the kid through Skype call, which in turns will
help parents to save few hours which they can dedicate in fulfilling their
official tasks.
5. Parents should keep their kids
under supervision to avoid any kind of unpredictable happening. For this,
parents should keep in touch with the driver of the school bus and also can put
micro cameras on the school bags of kids to be assured that the kid has reached
home safely.
6.
Beside this, parents should
keep their kids involved with other activities as well to keep their day busy,
such as dance classes, swimming classes or other outdoor sports activities.
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