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  • Permalink for 'Does Parenting Make you Better at Work?' Does Parenting Make you Better at Work?
    Posted: October 12th, 2009, 5:49pm EDT by Ory Okolloh

    Interesting article in the NYTimes.

    In my experience parenting has made me better at work…how so?

    • a lot more focused…no time to dilly-dally if you are managing a household with two kids under three;
    • much better at seeing the bigger picture…kids give you perspective;
    • better at multi-tasking (I’m mum, nurse, story-teller, cook, psychologist, arbitrator, negotiater, fixer of bubus, Teletubbies watcher, decider, etc.);
    • better at decision making (is this worth going to the ER to or not?),
    • and much much better at trusting my intuition (there is no playbook for parenting, 99% is trusting your gut).

    What about you KP readers, has parenting made you better at work?