Working While Managing Your Child’s Mental Health

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship, Workplace, Business/management, Business/entrepreneurship, Progress, Resources, Gender, Equality, Business/careers, Women, Hbr, Careers, Management, Business, Harvard, Human

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Tending to a child’s mental health challenge is a critical job that deserves support from employers. Many parents, however, aren’t getting the understanding, flexibility, and paid time off they need. What can we do to make work more manageable for parents struggling to keep their children safe and well while trying to keep up at work? The executive director of a children’s mental health advocacy group shares ideas and advice.

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
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0:27.0	You're listening to Women at work from Harvard Business Review.
0:33.0	I name you Gallo, and I'm Amy Bernstein.
0:40.0	Most working parents in the US are at least somewhat concerned about their children's mental health.
0:45.0	Just over half are either very or extremely concerned.
0:49.0	A third of them said they didn't think it would be okay to leave work to attend to their child,
0:54.0	and a quarter of parents agreed that no matter what's going on with their child,
0:59.0	they are not allowed to let it interrupt their work.
1:02.0	Those are a few of the insights that the children's mental health advocacy group on our sleeves
1:07.0	unearthed in surveying working parents over the last two years.
1:11.0	Here's some more.
1:13.0	Over half of working parents have turned to their child's pediatrician
1:16.0	or reached out to a psychologist or counselor to get them professional help.
1:21.0	And then over half of those families received a diagnosis.
1:29.0	When your child is struggling, whether it's with social anxiety or anger,
1:33.0	management or autism, it's nearly impossible to focus on anything but how they're doing.
1:39.0	So I wasn't surprised to read that parents on average estimated that a third of their thoughts
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