Ask the Children: The Breakthrough Study That Reveals How to Succeed at Work and Parenting

The first comprehensive study asking children and their mothers and fathers for their family views on work and family life offers dozens of proven strategies busy families can use to feel more successful at work and at home.  Noted work-family  researcher Ellen Galinsky overtunes accepted thinking on quality vs. quantity time and many other guilt-inducing "myths", reveals children's one greatest wish for changing how work affects their parents' lives, shares relationship stories of how families stay close, and outlines a brilliant new set of operating principles to navigate work-family challenges, including:

Proven tactics for enhancing life at work

 

Ways to de-stress at work and at home

How to encourage family communication-and what to say to do once you have your child's attention 

How to decode the messages your children are getting about the world and work

Simple family traditions that foster well-adjusted children

And much more

Ellen Galinsky is co-founder and president of the Families and Work Institute in Manhattan. A leading authority and speaker on work/family issues, she was on the faculty at Bank Street College of Education for twenty-five years and she has authored sixteen books. She lives with her family in upstate New York.