Working While Managing Your Child’s Mental Health | Women at Work | Podcast

Harvard Business Review · Oct 15, 2026 · 48m

When your child is struggling—whether it’s with anxiety, anger management, or depression—focusing on anything other than how they’re doing can be difficult to nearly impossible. Yet so many parents are straining day after day to support their children while trying to keep up at work. And so many lack enough flexibility, understanding, and paid time off from their employer to take care of everything they need to do, from finding their children a therapist to taking them to appointments.

Uploaded 16-11-22

What can mothers, managers, and leaders do to make work more manageable? The executive…