What our obsession with work is doing to our Children

Our obsession with work has unfortunately been pushed on to our children, in the following ways:

More often parents are not present physically when their children get home from school. I remember getting home from school and it was the best time to talk with my mum or dad around the kitchen bench - to debrief on important points from me day and to actually have relationship.

If parents are physically present, then they are often not emotionally present having their Samsung Galaxy s5, Apple iPhone 6 or Blackberry in their hand checking their work email. The current generation of children are missing out on important aspects of relationship with their parents and particularly their fathers.

Even worse we try to replicate our own unhealthy work habits in our children by expecting children to do a full day of school (often starting around 7:30am) and then get home at 4:00pm (if they have no after school commitment) and then complete hours of homework. Even if we are determined to increase our own work hours, we should not attempt to increase our children's work hours.

If you compare the amount of homework expected of students today with the time spent on homework 20 years ago, then it has dramatically increased and in this, students are losing their childhood.

 

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