EP165 Overcoming mom guilt / dad guilt
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
What happens when you spend more time with other people's kids than your own? Parenting guilt is real, and there's no easy solution when it seems like family gets short-changed when you focus on students, but students get shortchanged when you focus on family.
In this episode, we'll explore what creates mom guilt and dad guilt, and how those two things can manifest differently. We'll also talk about how the unrealistic standards placed on parents can make it feel like you're never doing enough.
Learn how to make choices from a place of compassion, both for yourself as a parent, and for your students' parents (rather than assuming you need to compensate for the things you believe they should be doing but aren't).
Then you'll hear directly from 4 teachers who have found solutions and created clear boundaries between family and work.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 165 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host |
| 0:07.0 | Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the minds and hearts of educators |
| 0:14.0 | and get you energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:17.0 | Today I'm going to talk about why parenting guilt is on the rise, |
| 0:20.0 | particularly among educators, and share how teachers are coping. |
| 0:26.1 | Visit truth for teachers.com to get the transcript or to share your thoughts in the comments. |
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| 1:17.1 | code now. So our topic today is parenting guilt. I'm going to share some info and studies about how |
| 1:26.0 | this has become an increasingly bigger issue in recent years and then I'm |
| 1:30.1 | going to let you hear directly from other educators about how they're managing it. |
| 1:34.8 | I think this is a particularly pervasive issue in education because you're not just |
| 1:40.4 | choosing between work and family like many people are. It can feel like you're |
| 1:45.1 | choosing between one group of children that you deeply care about, who are your students, |
| 1:51.1 | and another child or children who are members of your household and |
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