Work-Family Ready: Navigating Your Job While Parenting Teens

Praise for Work-Family Ready

“Work-Family Ready provides a unique resource specifically designed for parents navigating the wonderous and turbulent teenage years. Each author provides excellent and timely advice, all in a friendly, accessible tone.”—Jessica DeGroot, President and Founder, ThirdPath Institute

“As a parent of teenagers and a doctor running a family medical practice, I know that the teenage years are not easy for both teens and parents. The advice in this book can help families navigate these years in a happier, healthier way.”—Dr. Lee Morgentaler, Board Certified in Family Practice

“There are lots of resources for parents of young children, but Work-Family Ready fills an important gap providing easy access to help that parents of teens really need. You can read a chapter in 15 minutes before bed and have lots of great ideas to implement starting the next day.”—Melissa Davidson, Founder & Parenting Coach, Perceptive Parents

As children grow older, the demands on parents shift from physical care and constant supervision to emotional support, guidance, and logistical coordination. For working parents of preteens and teens, this phase brings challenges that require new strategies and a more flexible approach.

To help you with your work and teen-parenting demands, Work-Family Ready has been written by psychologists, family counselors, and other experts, most of whom are also navigating life while parenting teens. Other contributors include business school professors who have studied the intersection of work and family, HR professionals who have helped scores of employees navigate work-life challenges, and organizational consultants who have helped managers and employers better support their employees.

Inside you will find:

• Actionable advice on protecting family time from the creeping demands of work
• Time-management tips and ways to partner with your teen, co-parent, and others
• Guidance on constructing appropriate boundaries so that you can attend to work demands and advance in your career without neglecting things at home
• How to balance being a parent to a teen with other caregiving responsibilities.
• Perspectives on how workplaces and managers can be more supportive of employees facing work/teen challenges, how we can leverage these resources, and how we can support our coworkers and peers.

Work-Family Ready lays out what’s at stake both for the workplace and at home and the importance and benefits of support from employers and managers in navigating these challenges.

Scott Behson, Ph.D., is a professor of management and Silberman Global Faculty Fellow at Fairleigh Dickinson University and a leadingexpert in work-life, wellness, and flexible workplaces. He's the author of three books, most recently The Whole-Person Workplace: BuildingBetter Workplaces Through Work-Life, Wellness, and Employee Support-based on research, best practices, and interviews with dozens ofbusiness leaders right as they were navigating COVID changes to the workplace. His other books are The Working Dad's Survival Guide andWe Hate Team Projects! Scott is a speaker and consultant who has worked with leading companies on workplace flexibility and building supportive work cultures. He was a featured speaker at the UN's International Day of the Family and The White House's Summit for Working Families. In addition to his many academic publications, his work appears at HBR, Time, Fast Company, Success, WorkSpan, WSJ, and more. Hehas appeared on NBC, CBS, MSNBC, NPR, and Bloomberg Radio, as well as many leading HR and business podcasts.Scott's favorite and most important roles are husband and father. He lives with his wife, son, and cats in Nyack, New York. Visit himonline at ScottBehson.com.