19. Working Parent Guilt - How to Stop It in Its Tracks - Episode 19

Parents At Work Podcast

Feeling guilty - most of us would agree - is a useless and wasteful pastime. It doesn’t achieve anything other than making you (or another) feel pretty awful about yourself. Working parents particularly experience this in the childcare years when dropping them off to a childcare centre on their way to work, rearing it’s deceptive head as a sense of abandonment for the child. Other forms of guilt may come in the way of feeling bad when you take time to do something loving for yourself like picking your kids up when you’re done working rather than using that extra hour of childcare to have a massage. Whilst it is sold as ‘just a part of caring’ what are the real harms of guilt (to both you and others) and how can you call a cease fire on it so it doesn’t squash the joy out of being a parent? Join Katie and Sam as they explore the minutiae details of guilt . . . in all its deceptive masks.