Working While Parenting a Teen: Not What I Expected

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

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🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Do you expect to have more time for yourself and for your career as your kids become teens and young adults? Amy G did. If you too are getting “urgent” texts from your teenager at all hours, feeling judged by other parents about your level of involvement, and trying to figure out how to set the right amount of boundaries, she and Danna Greenberg hear you and have advice.

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0:00.0	Harvard Business School Executive Education develops leaders who make a difference in the world.
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0:13.7	Learn more at HBS.m-me-slash-Learn.
0:17.3	That's H-B-S-M-E. L-E-A-R-N.
0:26.7	Dana Greberg, you are the perfect person to have this conversation with.
0:31.2	Amy Gallo, I am so happy to be back here having this conversation with you.
0:35.4	You are a behavioral psychologist at Babson.
0:38.4	So you know work.
0:39.6	You've researched work in motherhood.
0:41.5	You wrote this amazing book called Maternal Optimism, which encourages us to see the positives of being a working mom.
0:48.4	And you were on our 2019 episode called The Upside of Working Motherhood.
0:55.0	Such a good episode.
0:56.5	I left that conversation.
0:58.3	My daughter was 12 at the time.
1:00.1	She's now 17, thinking that parenting an adolescent was going to open up all of this opportunity and freedom in my career and that I was just going to feel released from the burdens of early
1:14.2	childhood parenting. I want to play a clip from that 2019 episode because this is what I latched on to.
1:21.8	All of a sudden for me, there's this energy to engage in my research, in my writing, in leadership
1:26.9	in the college, in a way that I just
1:29.3	didn't have before. And so it's a really exciting phase. There's also a lot of positive
1:35.2	feedback that starts to come from your young adult children that you don't get from a toddler
1:40.8	or an elementary school. When you're dealing with little children, there's often can be more angst and tension
1:46.2	and things that they say that make you realize or think, oh, my gosh, they're upset I work,
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