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Parenting While Working from Home: A Monthly Guide to Help Parents Balance Their Careers, Connect with Their Kids, and Establish Their Inner Strength
Parenting in December is very different from parenting in July―especially while working from home!
As more parents work from home than ever before, there are unique challenges when it comes to meeting the demands of their job, helping their kids thrive, and finding even five minutes to take care of themselves. Parenting While Working from Home offers tips, strategies, and reflections to help parents balance their careers, connect with their kids, and establish their inner strength over the course of a year. Parenting experts and founders of the popular website, Adore Them Parenting, Karissa Tunis and Shari Medini share actionable tips, heartfelt insight, and planning strategies to help you enjoy your own parenting journey while working from home.
Building on the authors’ own experiences and the most common challenges they hear parents voicing today, Parenting While Working from Home encourages parents to make intentional changes that will result in happier families and thriving careers. This practical guide will teach you how While it isn’t always easy, working from home while raising a family can (and should) be an incredible experience. Parenting While Working from Home offers comfort in shared struggles, new solutions, and calmer days ahead!
As more parents work from home than ever before, there are unique challenges when it comes to meeting the demands of their job, helping their kids thrive, and finding even five minutes to take care of themselves. Parenting While Working from Home offers tips, strategies, and reflections to help parents balance their careers, connect with their kids, and establish their inner strength over the course of a year. Parenting experts and founders of the popular website, Adore Them Parenting, Karissa Tunis and Shari Medini share actionable tips, heartfelt insight, and planning strategies to help you enjoy your own parenting journey while working from home.
Building on the authors’ own experiences and the most common challenges they hear parents voicing today, Parenting While Working from Home encourages parents to make intentional changes that will result in happier families and thriving careers. This practical guide will teach you how While it isn’t always easy, working from home while raising a family can (and should) be an incredible experience. Parenting While Working from Home offers comfort in shared struggles, new solutions, and calmer days ahead!
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200 pages, Hardcover
Published January 19, 2021
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January 31, 2021
Despite its title, this book applies to anyone who is working from home. It will be applicable far into the future, regardless of where people work, because every month of the year, the author provides excellent actionable tips and worksheets.
What I loved is that each chapter focuses on breaking down the things we do by month. The author encourages readers to markdown the highlights of their life, the things that really matter to them every month of the year. Not everything. Just a few things. Some sections help parents focus on themselves—whether it's self-care, building confidence, or self-growth — which is more than most traditional parenting content offers.
If you would like to hear my interview with the author, go to my podcast at: https://zibbyowens.com/transcript/sha...
What I loved is that each chapter focuses on breaking down the things we do by month. The author encourages readers to markdown the highlights of their life, the things that really matter to them every month of the year. Not everything. Just a few things. Some sections help parents focus on themselves—whether it's self-care, building confidence, or self-growth — which is more than most traditional parenting content offers.
If you would like to hear my interview with the author, go to my podcast at: https://zibbyowens.com/transcript/sha...
July 19, 2021
Whew! What an ambitious title! How can a working mom not have expectations?
So I was surprised to find that the WHOLE BOOK repeats the SAME 5 Intentions (goals) at the start of each month and the SAME 7 Reflections (what you realized) at the end of each month. It’s supposed to make you mindful.
To fill the book, the authors share their specific experience with their children and give some suggestions for activities each month.
Each chapter is a month that opens with short essays fitted to the season; January is for goal planning so the authors suggest a mail delivery at home where older kids write you a weekly letter about their goals and you write back. Can’t you just talk?
The first suggestion to balance work with kids is to set the kids up first by giving them undivided attention before giving them captivating toys for independent play so you you sneak off to work. How realistic is that?
For June, they suggest various activities for the kids to do with Dad. But what if Dad is not available? For summer, I should provide bonding opportunities for the siblings, but what if it’s an only child? I should also try to recover from burnout with self-indulgent activities. But what if there’s no one who can watch the kids while I “take pictures around town”?
The suggestions aren’t helpful for single parents who are alone with kids and who NEED six hours of focused work daily, unless you have flexible time to work from home or you’re not obliged to attend set meetings and deadlines during office hours. Best scenario, you have a nanny, THEN you have time to do all the Instagram-worthy stuff and fill in the questionnaire.
Self-reflection and writing are great. But working parents need specific strategies to deal with the gritty task of a needy baby, a disruptive toddler, or a tween who keeps surfing YouTube instead of doing schoolwork.
How can you achieve positive and mindful parenting when you can barely manage your kid’s education while you try to show your boss that you’re just as productive from home?
This feels like another work from home parenting bandwagon but with less effort and more marketing of the author’s business. Come on ladies! Moms need REAL help not fluff.
So I was surprised to find that the WHOLE BOOK repeats the SAME 5 Intentions (goals) at the start of each month and the SAME 7 Reflections (what you realized) at the end of each month. It’s supposed to make you mindful.
To fill the book, the authors share their specific experience with their children and give some suggestions for activities each month.
Each chapter is a month that opens with short essays fitted to the season; January is for goal planning so the authors suggest a mail delivery at home where older kids write you a weekly letter about their goals and you write back. Can’t you just talk?
The first suggestion to balance work with kids is to set the kids up first by giving them undivided attention before giving them captivating toys for independent play so you you sneak off to work. How realistic is that?
For June, they suggest various activities for the kids to do with Dad. But what if Dad is not available? For summer, I should provide bonding opportunities for the siblings, but what if it’s an only child? I should also try to recover from burnout with self-indulgent activities. But what if there’s no one who can watch the kids while I “take pictures around town”?
The suggestions aren’t helpful for single parents who are alone with kids and who NEED six hours of focused work daily, unless you have flexible time to work from home or you’re not obliged to attend set meetings and deadlines during office hours. Best scenario, you have a nanny, THEN you have time to do all the Instagram-worthy stuff and fill in the questionnaire.
Self-reflection and writing are great. But working parents need specific strategies to deal with the gritty task of a needy baby, a disruptive toddler, or a tween who keeps surfing YouTube instead of doing schoolwork.
How can you achieve positive and mindful parenting when you can barely manage your kid’s education while you try to show your boss that you’re just as productive from home?
This feels like another work from home parenting bandwagon but with less effort and more marketing of the author’s business. Come on ladies! Moms need REAL help not fluff.
February 19, 2021
I wish I had this book years ago. It has so many helpful tips for balancing the act of being present parenting, while being fulfilled professionally. Although it’s timely right now, in 2020-2021, I could have benefited from this book when I first started my business. It will continue to be relevant as businesses shift to permanently allow employees to work from home. I’d recommend for anyone working from home regardless of your children’s ages.
May 13, 2021
While I always parent while working from home, this book has become so much more relevant this past year. The style is cheery but not pollyanna, and I liked the way the book was organized by month. I thought the authors pushed their website too much, and in general this was geared more towards people who had kids younger than mine (elementary and middle school). Also, this might be better as a workbook/workshop format (I kept thinking of Unplug the Christmas Machine, with the workbook and book).
There are some useful tips, and good organization suggestions here. . . it just wasn't as helpful as I hoped. If you're working from home with kids for the long haul, this is worth checking out.
There are some useful tips, and good organization suggestions here. . . it just wasn't as helpful as I hoped. If you're working from home with kids for the long haul, this is worth checking out.
May 15, 2022
I like the authors a lot. The authors are great human beings and great moms. The tips are useful.
But I don’t really like the monthly structure of the book. I actually need some tips from September at the start of the year… some pages feel redundant to me.
Also, the book is targeting to school-age children. As a new mum, a huge chunk of the book does not apply to me.
But I don’t really like the monthly structure of the book. I actually need some tips from September at the start of the year… some pages feel redundant to me.
Also, the book is targeting to school-age children. As a new mum, a huge chunk of the book does not apply to me.
April 25, 2021
There were some good tips in here, but overall the advice felt repetitive and somewhat obvious. I'm also confused why it was published as a hardcover since it wanted to be a workbook.
June 5, 2021
I journaled many quotes from this book which I found very helpful. All in all though, despite its efforts, this book seems appropriate for only a small group of lucky parents.
January 28, 2025
Found the book to have some good ideas. I was already doing many of the ideas. The reflection questions are great!
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