Covid and Kids

Dear HBR:

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4.6 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Are you a working parent stressing over how to advance your career during the pandemic? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Alyssa Westring, a professor at DePaul University’s Driehaus College of Business. They talk through what to do when you now want to quit your job to be a stay-at-home parent, your reduced salary and growth prospects are hurting your plans to have children, or a Covid-delayed job start date is tricky timing for your pregnancy.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.9	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.9	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.3	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.3	We don't need to let the conflicts get us down.
0:17.8	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:19.9	We take your questions, look at the research, talk to the experts, and help you move forward.
0:32.6	Today we're talking about working and parenting a family during a pandemic with
0:36.6	Alyssa Westring.
0:38.0	She's a professor at DePaul University's Dreehouse College of Business and co-author of the book,
0:42.9	Parents Who Lead.
0:44.2	Alyssa, thanks for coming in the show.
0:45.8	My pleasure. Thanks for having me.
0:47.9	So how old are your kids and how's it going for you?
0:51.1	So my kids are 8 and 10 and it's hard. We found out that they're going to be 100% virtual
0:59.4	for this school year, which is what we expected, but it's tricky. And what are you hearing from
1:06.2	the parents that you have been talking to as a result of your new book? Well, people are all saying
1:12.9	this is a hard time and we're all trying to not be so hard on ourselves. So maybe that's a new
1:18.1	skill that we're all gaining right now. Alyssa, how is your general advice on work-life balance
1:24.3	changed during the pandemic? Well, I'm trying to encourage everybody, including myself, to be a lot more compassionate
1:33.0	and understanding with ourselves and to realize that our perfect career, our perfect family
1:39.4	life, if they ever were possible, they're certainly not in the current moment.
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