Balancing Work and Home Life While Being a Parent
The imbalance between personal and professional life can lead to burnout – a syndrome recently recognized by the World Health Organization as a disease. When you become a parent, your priorities change. Your personal life becomes more demanding, and it becomes equally more difficult to cope with job demands . Studies indicate that at least 1 in 3 employees perceive a high level of stress caused by the conflict between work and personal or family life. Interestingly, the way work influences parents also has significant effects on children's development as a high level of stress at work has a negative impact on the child. However, the relationship is also inverse. The stress caused by the problems of interaction with the child or in the family equally affects work performance. The most common sources of stress as caused by the workplace include role ambiguity, overload, career management difficulties , etc. There's also the case of personal beliefs and aspirations, emotional he...