Book Review: The Parent’s Guide to Family-Friendly Work, Finding the Balance Between Employment and Enjoyment by Lori K Long, PhD
This book is a comprehensive guide to all the points you need analyze, prioritize, and deal with while trying to combine a job and raising a family.
Nowadays, it’s often a necessity for both parents to work so they can afford to have children and pay for the children’s care, housing, and food. But it’s also necessary to spend some quality time with your children so they learn your values, get to know you, and you get to enjoy watching them grow, as well as teach them about life.
How to combine those two facets is the focus of this book. Each chapter covers one of the challenges you face (many points in here apply to working in the job market in general, not just as a parent).
She gives you bulleted topics within the chapter so you can see what you’re going to read about, wraps it up with a summary at the end, and each chapter has a bibliography so you can read more about the subjects covered if you desire.
She covers all the major points, has suggestions on how to approach your decisions and emphasizes the need to be flexible (on all sides).
It’s a nice common sense guide that should help anyone who is trying to figure out how to approach having more time at home with their child without giving up their job. She also offers more than one approach and several suggestions for jobs that would go well with family life. This is a book that you may find yourself returning to for another idea as time goes on.
Title: The Parent’s Guide to Family-Friendly Work
Author: Lori K Long, PhD
ISBN# 1-56414-944-7
Publisher: Career Press
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