By USAHockey.com — 2015
Being on the bench shouldn’t be seen as a punishment. Instead, coaches and parents need to help players recognize their critical role in the success of a team even from the sidelines.
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Mothers earn 3% per hour less for each child they have compared with women working in similar jobs who do not have children, say researchers.
When women in the workplace talk about their children, they’re often seen as distracted. When men talk about their children, they’re viewed as caring dads. New research supports that the “motherhood penalty” is real.
The so-called “motherhood penalty” is alive and well in America. Despite making gains in education and experience, mothers are still facing an uphill battle in the workplace—and a pay gap that has barely budged in 30 years.
The transition from actively parenting children to a quieter life without children in the home can be difficult for any dedicated parent. For single parents, the transition may prove especially challenging.
The very qualities that lead to greater emotional satisfaction in peer marriages, as one sociologist calls them, may be having an unexpectedly negative impact on these couples’ sex lives.
New research demonstrates parental burnout has serious consequences. As defined by the study, burnout is an exhaustion syndrome, characterized by feeling overwhelmed, physical and emotional exhaustion, emotional distancing from one’s children, and a sense of being an ineffective parent.
Between taking children to school and managing other to-dos, some days it may feel like you don’t get a minute to yourself. And even when you hear about, self-care, you may dismiss it as frivolous, unnecessary, or even selfish.
Couples are having less sex these days than even in the famously uptight ’50s. Why?