Title: Compare how families affect work life and how work life affects families.
Course: Child Development and Parenting (19255-36) > Section: Balancing Work and Family

Comparison should include

- the financial, social, intellectual, emotional, cultural, and ethical challenges involved in work and family roles
- the effect of career choices and life goals on parenting decisions
- the effect of parenting decisions on career choices and life goals.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- What effects do technological changes in the workplace have on families?
- What effects do other workplace trends have on families?
- What are the benefits and disadvantages of work as it relates to family?
- What may be the effects of family stress and/or change on the workplace?

Communication

- How can the importance of work life be communicated to family members and the importance of family life be communicated to those in the workplace?
- What communication skills help balance the effects of family life on work? Work life on families?
- What communication skills used in the workplace are valuable in the family, and vice versa?

Leadership

- What leadership techniques direct or redirect the effects of family on work and work on family?
- How can leadership skills be integrated into the family and the workplace?

Management

- How can an individual’s management skills be integrated into the family and into the workplace?
- What management skills minimize the effects of family life on work and the effects of work on family life?