Advising Professionals to Take Time for Kids

HonnolDCounseling helps professionals set limits on their work demands in order to have more time for their children.

Many professionals are high-functioning parents to their children.  Others are not:

• “I want to provide well for my kids financially, but also to see them.”
• “I rarely see my kids.  They’re asleep when I leave for work and when I come home.”
• “My kids are not even happy to see me any more.”
• “I’m smart at work, but a total idiot at home with the kids.”
• “I expect my kids to keep total control of themselves, even while I lose control of myself.”
• “I can’t stand the mess at home.  At work, I’m highly organized.”
• “I get overwhelmed with anger at my kids, for no reason.”
• “I resent the burdens on my time imposed by my kids.”
• “I attend all my kids’ games and concerts, but I have no time to talk.”
• “I’m an effective parent only on weekends, and often not even then.”
• “When I get old, I’ll have missed the experience of being a good parent.”
• “My children will complain to a therapist someday that I was never ‘there’.”

 
HonnolDCounseling can help you to:

• Manage the anxiety involved in setting limits on demands at work;
• Overcome obstacles to achieving a meaningful work-life balance;
• Accept the trade-offs of professional accomplishment and family life;
• Adapt to stress and sleep deprivation involved in having a young child;
• Understand how frustrations at work can be displaced on kids at home;
• Enjoy a relaxed family life while also maintaining effective boundaries;
• Learn to communicate better with your children;
• Appreciate pleasures of family life, while your children are still at home;
• Adjust to loss of daily contact with your children, in the wake of divorce;
• Adapt to the loss when your children grow up and leave home.

HonnolDCounseling helps busy Washingtonians make the tough choices needed to be first-class parents as well as excellent professionals.