Welcome to Parenthood and Careers
Included are some articles and blog posts that will help you to balance your work, home, family and any other personal concerns and interests you may encounter.
Common Questions Every Working Parent Faces
Parenthood often makes us question our lives and wonder about the right balance between career and family. Let’s explore these issues and find answers to these questions together.
How much time should I be devoting to my career and family?
These are the questions we'll explore together through personalized coaching and support.
Is my child or children receiving enough of my attention?
These are the questions we'll explore together through personalized coaching and support.
Why do I feel guilty when I am at work?
These are the questions we'll explore together through personalized coaching and support.
Who can I turn to find the proper balance between my family and career needs?
These are the questions we'll explore together through personalized coaching and support.
Coaching and working with a coach can benefit you in these areas.
Since a coach has a unique vantage point of being objective while being aligned with your goals and commitments, a coach sees and hears things that you do to which ultimately can make a profound difference in your choices, behavior, performance and life overall.
It is very effective to have a partner who understands the issues you confront every day.
How It Works
Our systematic approach to helping you achieve balance between your parenting and career responsibilities.
Step 1
Identify Goals & Barriers
We will identify your goals, commitments and barriers to achieving them.
Step 2
Develop Action Plan
We will then develop a plan that immediately puts you into action.
Step 3
Track & Assess Progress
We will keep track, assess your progress and re-evaluate when necessary.
The Benefits
Working with a coach provides tangible benefits that transform both your personal and professional life.
Higher Level of Self-Awareness
Develop deeper understanding of your values, strengths, and priorities as both a parent and professional.
Increased Self-Confidence
Build confidence in your ability to make decisions that serve both your family and career goals.
A More Balanced Life
Achieve sustainable integration between your parenting responsibilities and career aspirations.
Ready to Find Your Balance?
Take the first step toward achieving harmony between your parenting responsibilities and career aspirations. Work with Lynn to develop strategies that honor both your family and professional goals.
Blog Articles
Partner Support: Navigating Career Decisions as a Team
Your partner gets a job offer in another city. It's an incredible opportunity with significantly higher pay and genuine career advancement. But accepting it means you'd have to leave your own job, uproot your children from their school, and move away from the support...
The Part-Time Professional: Making It Work for Your Family
There's a specific kind of frustration that comes with wanting both a meaningful career and more time with your children, feeling like you're being forced to choose between professional fulfillment and family presence. Full-time work feels unsustainable. Stepping away...
Creating Boundaries: When Work Ends and Family Time Begins
The line between work and family time used to be clear. You left the office, you came home. Work stayed at work, and evenings and weekends belonged to family. But in today's always-connected world, that boundary has dissolved. Your laptop lives on the kitchen table....
Managing Work Guilt: A Parent’s Guide to Professional Fulfillment
The guilt arrives in waves. It's there when you're preparing for a big presentation and realize you forgot about the class field trip permission slip. It surfaces during the board meeting when your phone buzzes with a text from your child's school. It washes over you...
Navigating Career Transitions as a Working Parent: Strategies for Managing Change While Maintaining Family Stability
Career transitions are rarely simple, but when you're a working parent, every professional decision ripples through your entire household. Whether you're considering a new role, switching industries, starting a business, or returning to work after a leave, the...
Ten Ways To Manage Business Trip Guilt
Learning to manage the business trip guilt including being away from your family can be challenging, but with the right strategies, you can maintain strong connections and make the experience easier for everyone. In this article, we’ll explore ten practical ways to...
PLAYING FAIR: The top 10 ways to focus on games to play with your children and how to foster good sportsmanship.
PLAYING FAIR: The top 10 Ways to Focus on Games to Play with your Children and how to Foster Good Sportsmanship. 1.Stay simple. Children often leam the most and play the best with toys and games that are simple. For example, a child who knows how use a deck of cards...
Top ten ways to double your effectiveness in one week
Top Ten Ways to Double Your Effectiveness in One Week These tips apply to everyone who works but they are especially useful for parents who are feeling stressed out by their work and child-rearing responsibilities. Use the unique strengths of others. For example, if...
How to communicate and most effectively deal with your children if you are layed off or downsized.
How to Communicate and Most Effectively Deal with your Children if you are Layed Off or Downsized. Be honest with your child(ren). Lying could cause bigger problems. Do not bring your frustrations home. Children may incorrectly feel that your anger or negative...
Encourage good health habits
Lead by example. Show your children that you get the proper amount of rest and lead a balanced lifestyle. Encourage Good Health Habits! Join a gym as a family. Most gyms or community centers have discounted rates for families. Eat healthy foods. Keep plenty of...
Ten Things You Can Learn From Your Children To Make You A Better Employee
Ten Things You Can Learn From Your Children To Make You A Better Employee Live in the present moment. For children, the present moment is the most important period of time. They teach us not to indefinitely defer dreams or goals. Show enthusiasm. Children teach us how...
Ten Ways To Enhance Communication With Your Child’s School
Ten Ways To Enhance Communication With Your Child's School Become an involved parent and volunteer. You may also wish to be a class or parent representative. Even as a working parent, there is an opportunity for you to get involved. Understand the established lines of...
Easing The Back To School Transition
Easing The Back To School Transition This month's broadcast will focus on how to ease the back to school transition for working parents. Remember chaos may reign for the first few days. Perhaps you may wish to share your experiences as a child when you went back to...
Ten Ways To Achieve a Goal or Special Project With Your Child
Develop the vision and goals together. Communicate frequently. Keep abreast of your child's changes and difficulties they may be encountering. Be approachable. Let your child(ren) know they can ask questions anytime. Teach patience. Let them know it takes a...
Surviving Summer Vacation
Surviving Summer Vacation - 10 tips on how to get the most out of your summer vacation: Come home at least one day before returning to work in order to organize yourself. Pack (and make preparations) for your trip well in advance so that you are not leaving in a...
The end of the school year is coming and it is time to get ready.
Ten tips for preparing for the summer. Get into shape physically. The summer is a great time of year to spend doing outdoor activity with your children. If you are well-conditioned both youand your children will get more enjoyment from these outdoor activities. Make...
The top 10 ways to focus on games to play with your children and how to foster good sportsmanship
PLAYING FAIR Stay simple. Chidren often leam the most and play the best with toys and games that are simple. For example, a child who knows how to use a deck of cards can develop skills (e.g. mathematics and sportsmanship) that last a lifetime. Teach your child how to...
Parenthood and Career – Thinking Hard About the Choices
Parenthood and Career - Thinking Hard About the Choices "Now that I am a parent, my former position no longer feels right. This is causing me a great deal of anxiety and confusion because I've spent my entire life, up to this point, preparing for my career.I want to...
Balancing Work with the Rest of Your Life Learning How to Prioritize
Balancing Work with the Rest of Your Life Learning How to Prioritize Everyone talks about balancing your work and personal lives but how do you really do it considering all the roles and responsibility we have. When one's life is effectively balanced we are most...