Much like many of you, working late or even having to work on weekends is not uncommon, in fact I’ll be working late tonight as I type this (in the morning). Before parenthood working late was not altogether a bad experience. It become a chore when you had to work late because of someone else’s […]
Teaching your kids to read and write when you are not there
If you are working long hours or are away a lot on business how can you still teach young children how to read and write and to count? Well teaching them to write will be a challenge, but teaching kids to read and counting is relatively easy to teach while you are away. Whether you […]
The alternatives to pensions
In the last twelve years I’ve had two staff jobs, totalling three years out of twelve. The rest of the time has been contracting and freelance. One of the main advantages a staff position gives over contracting is that it comes along with a company pension. Here in the UK the company will contribute some, […]
Balancing the monthly budget
Regardless of how big the desk surface is, it will always manage to be filled and get cluttered. Same with money, no matter how much you earn every penny seems to find a home somewhere. I’ve prepared a spreadsheet which you can download and enter in figures and descriptions on how the money is spent. […]
I’m not spending enough time with my kids
Even though I am finally back working in London I’m still not able to spend much time at all during the weekdays with my kids. Much like many of you, I’m constantly late out of the door, trying to get myself and the kids ready and off to nursery in the morning is a frantic […]
How to handle the stress of job hunting
Being out of work is incredibly stressful at any time, when you have kids the stress multiplies tenfold. All your time is spent at home job searching like frantic, there’s the all important CV/resume and then countless different iterations of it to tailor it to the exact job description, that is if the job actually […]
Welcome Working Parent
Hello and welcome to the working parent website. This site is intended as a resource where parents working full time jobs and looking after children (which in itself is a full time job) can exchange ideas and support one another. Who runs this website? My name is Farhan, I am a writer, filmmaker and VFX artist living […]
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