Today's busy pace of life has required most parents to find work in order to maintain a good quality of life. But this, in turn, has meant having much less time to share with their children, which can become a complex issue for many.
According to a recent study carried out by the digital content company Lingokids, summer school holidays are a source of stress for many families, who have to juggle work and children's holidays.
Summer vacations are here, and like every year the eternal dilemma between parents resurfaces: what do we do with the children while we continue working?
"I feel exhausted", "I have no energy", "it is impossible for me to work at home with the children", "I can't take it anymore", "I need to disconnect". Do you feel identified with any of these phrases? If so, you may be experiencing parental burnout.
Reconciliation is that pending issue that with the arrival of the pandemic was even more accentuated, especially when highlighting the differences in parenting and childcare in households where both parents work.
Women who take a break in their professional career to raise their children are often discriminated against. Not only does it seem that they had to apologize to half of humanity for doing so (beware, if they return to work after the corresponding sick leave, too), but at the moment in which they want to return to working life, that period is usually seen as a space of dead time, in which they have ceased to be people who know about a trade, to be "a simple mother"... as if having a baby did not bring you lessons that you can transfer perfectly to the workplace.
Raising and educating children requires a significant daily effort that, combined with work stress and the high level of demand that parents sometimes impose on ourselves, ends up leading to what is called 'parental burnout'.
Spain has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, standing at 1.3 children per woman (in 2019), despite the fact that women say they want an average of two children. Thus, there is a gap between desired and achieved fertility.
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