The United States has 25.8 percent of its children living with just a mother or a father. Today, almost half of households with kids in the U.S. have parents who both work full-time. Working parenthood alone presents a massive logistical and emotional challenge, but when your child is ill, that challenge ramps way up. Daisy Dowling shares a few strategies to help get through these rough patches in one piece.
Source: Harvard Business Review, July 18, 2017.
Acknowledging that you and your child are both human, and therefore will become ill, is the critical first step to avoiding crises and undue stress. According to the National Institutes of Health, small children routinely get 8-10 colds and viruses per year, or nearly one per month.