Working Families

This week we talked about working families. The one thing that was pointed out that really stood out to me was in the history of the world, work was not separate from family. We talked about how kids would go to work with their parents and families would work together. I think that this could be so beneficial for families in these days. So often families are being separated by different jobs that it makes them have separate lives from each other. When I was young I remember my Dad working all the time. He was only around every once in awhile. My mom also has always had a job. She wouldn't work as many hours, but I remember not wanting her to leave or spend too much time on school because she wasn't focusing on me. That sounds selfish, but as a child I needed more time with my parents. I am grateful that my parents both worked because it taught me independence and how to work hard. I just wish that they hadn't worked so much and that we could have spent more time together as a family.

"Work used to be about life, and now life is about work."