Many of us are returning to the office, even if in limited fashion, for one pivotal reason: It will make us stronger bosses, collaborators, colleagues.
For those of us with children, however, it cannot come at the expense of being better parents.
We’ve analyzed employee mental health and fretted about staff burnout as work life continually bombarded the boundaries surrounding home life throughout the pandemic. We’ve been in a state of paranoia for 26 straight months. We’ve partitioned ourselves off due to a health crisis and, worse yet, a political divisiveness that left us with even fewer havens for humanity or healing. Racial injustice and its fatal repercussions and daily indignities grew too excruciating to be ignored.
That’s all had its toll. The good news is, we get that now. Per an American Psychological Association survey, 87% of respondents now say mental disorder is nothing to be ashamed of, a stigma no longer.
But more silent has been what’s stalked our kids, some…
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