You’ve heard it a thousand times, “It takes a village” and it may sound cliché to say but it’s true. None of us can, or should, go through this journey called parenting alone. Whether we’re a single parent or have a partner we find ourselves needing someone to not only assist with carpool and child care but to lean on, rely on, vent to.
It’s hard to ask for help and it’s even harder to receive it. We need to communicate. Share. Ask for what we need when we need it.
Here are a few tips/resources to guide you on the path of child-rearing partnership.
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5 Ways to Create a Parenting Partnership – Huffington PostApril McCormick wrote about learning to co-parent after the birth of her first child. “I found myself doing 90% of the work, while my husband sat in the corner licking his parenting war wounds. I realized that this was no way to parent. I needed help, and my husband needed to be a dad. I needed to let go and give my husband a chance to prove his ideas for parenting were not ridiculous. Slowly but surely I stepped back and let my husband be a partner in parenting. This not only made parenting easier, it helped my husband and I become a cohesive parenting team.”
Business and Family Are All in a Day's Work For These Dynamic CEO Moms – Entrepreneur MagazineMany women who run companies also simultaneously raise families. Balancing parenthood and business is a challenge but it can be done.
“The next time you’re talking to a CEO parent, don’t ask her whether she can be a good leader and a good mother at the same time. Instead, ask a CEO mom how they, as individuals and as a community of business professionals, can help each other embrace the opportunities, lessons, and payoffs of the dual leader/parent role with grace, optimism, and success.”
Parents Need to Ask for Help – The New York TimesIn this New York Times article, Lisa Belkin writes, “It is impossible to raise a child all by yourself. It may or may not take a village, but it certainly takes some help. And to get that help, you have to ask
I am bad at asking for help. Turning like that to someone I did not pay or was not related to feels like an intrusion on their life, handing them a complication that was technically mine to solve. I know it makes no sense — I would be happy to watch a friend’s child, or run their extra errand — and yet to ask for that same kind of favor feels like an imposition. In an emergency, yes, but in a day of general chaos, no. I did so over the years, but not often and not well.”
It’s hard to ask for help and it’s even harder to receive it. We need to communicate. Share. Ask for what we need when we need it.
Here are a few tips/resources to guide you on the path of child-rearing partnership.
Share your thoughts below or on our Facebook and Twitter pages:
5 Ways to Create a Parenting Partnership – Huffington PostApril McCormick wrote about learning to co-parent after the birth of her first child. “I found myself doing 90% of the work, while my husband sat in the corner licking his parenting war wounds. I realized that this was no way to parent. I needed help, and my husband needed to be a dad. I needed to let go and give my husband a chance to prove his ideas for parenting were not ridiculous. Slowly but surely I stepped back and let my husband be a partner in parenting. This not only made parenting easier, it helped my husband and I become a cohesive parenting team.”
Business and Family Are All in a Day's Work For These Dynamic CEO Moms – Entrepreneur MagazineMany women who run companies also simultaneously raise families. Balancing parenthood and business is a challenge but it can be done.
“The next time you’re talking to a CEO parent, don’t ask her whether she can be a good leader and a good mother at the same time. Instead, ask a CEO mom how they, as individuals and as a community of business professionals, can help each other embrace the opportunities, lessons, and payoffs of the dual leader/parent role with grace, optimism, and success.”
Parents Need to Ask for Help – The New York TimesIn this New York Times article, Lisa Belkin writes, “It is impossible to raise a child all by yourself. It may or may not take a village, but it certainly takes some help. And to get that help, you have to ask
I am bad at asking for help. Turning like that to someone I did not pay or was not related to feels like an intrusion on their life, handing them a complication that was technically mine to solve. I know it makes no sense — I would be happy to watch a friend’s child, or run their extra errand — and yet to ask for that same kind of favor feels like an imposition. In an emergency, yes, but in a day of general chaos, no. I did so over the years, but not often and not well.”