It is fantastic to know that you can use the skills you use at work to advocate for your children. Each day there are dozens and dozens of articles written about having it all and work-life balance. Many of those articles complain about how work interferes with home or home interferes with work. What if instead, some of those articles talked about some of the good things work has to offer your home life?
You learned it at work, use it at home to advocate for your children.
People often think of lawyers when they hear the words advocate and advocacy. However, employees advocate and use advocacy skills to get through the day and accomplish the work mission. One thing that parents often do at work is advocate or fight for a position. It is an important part of getting things done. At work, one has to work to get one’s voice heard, to get one’s project approved, or to get budget approval. Advocacy is an important tool that is used in almost every professional setting.
One of the most important things parents must do is advocate on behalf of their children. It is something that needs to be done. The problem is that many parents do not know that they should advocate for their children. Others know they should but do not know how. For this reason, I published a book called, “How to Advocate for Your Children to Succeed.” It gives advice on how to do this. The book explains what it means to advocate, how to do it, how to put together a team of advocates for your children, and offers other reading material. If I say so myself, and I do, it is an excellent resource for parents.
This is just one example of how the skills one uses at work can directly help one’s home life. There are many others including:
- Budgeting
- Record keeping
- Analysis
- Report writing
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Want more help to become the best advocate you can be?
This article is one in a series of articles exploring the ideas discussed in the book. These articles are designed to help you learn how to so become a successful advocate. Read the articles and click here to get a copy of the book for yourself.
Here are links to all the articles in the series:
- How to Advocate for Your Children – My Book Tells You How
- Getting Started as an Advocate for Your Children
- Support Your Children – That is Great Advocacy
- Use Your Work Skills at Home – Advocate for Your Children
- Your Children Need to Learn to Advocate for Themselves – Teach Them
- Be Your Children’s Best Advocate
- Preparing to Speak for Your Children
In conclusion, it is fantastic to know that you can use the skills you use at work to help your children succeed. So, the question for you this fantastic day is, what work skills help you do things better at home?
I agree! Using skills youlearn on the job can come in super handy for things at home
This is a great post! Getting organized is super important (especially when our children see that we’re able to do it in our homes). Thanks for sharing.
I need to learn budgeting I def suck for it my husband in the other hand is amazong
I worked for the second largest school district in the US for over 20 years. One of the first things I always told parents is that they are their children’s best advocates and they need to be assertive and take that job seriously.
I think it’s wonderful that you’ve provided this resource for parents. No one’s got their corner like we do, it’s always great to learn new ways to keep that corner polished and looking good!
This sounds like a great book. Although I am a teacher, I’d love to learn more about advocating for my boys. I teach high school and they are in elementary… it is quite different.
I am a teacher, so patience is one skill that I have mastered in the classroom. However, it also serves me well at home. Living with three boys, one needs ALOT of patience. 🙂
I think that’s a great book topic. I always want to advocate for my kids without stepping on toes and ending up doing more harm than good. Thanks!
i’m always my child’s biggest advocate and cheerleader. Sounds like a great read
This is good advice and makes a lot of sense
Probably be organized. It’s really helped a lot.
I like to have things organized and neat in the office and my kids are picking up on that and applying it to the toy room.
Thanks for your kind words and for thinking it would be worthy of your daughter! That is indeed high praise.
“How to Advocate for Your Children’s Success.” sounds like a good read…perfect for my daughter. The book will make a great gift.
We’ve been working on involving our son more in what we’re doing at home – whether it’s related to the house or to our work life. I don’t want him to NOT know what I do for a living. And I want him to learn basic skills. It’s up to me to teach him!
There are quite a few work related concepts that can be applied to child rearing, but budgeting, time management, and interpersonal skills are three of the best.
This is Shop with Me Mama by the way, LOL. NOT Shop with Me Dad 😉
I learned to organize at work and though the outside of our home and SOME rooms in our home (hey I have kids!) are unorganized, I do a pretty good job of it!!
When I volunteer at my children’s schools, I see a lot of parents who want to advocate but don’t know how. That is why I wrote the book. We all want to help our children, we just need the tools. I hope the book helps your daughter. Stop by and let me know how it works out.
That is awesome! It is great to teach your kids lessons in the normal course of life. They seem to stick better that way.
This is such a great example! Your advice and example will serve them well throughout their lives.
As a special needs parent, I learned quickly how to advocate for my children 🙂
If I wasn’t organized, I don’t know how I would get by. I have to plot everything out before I do it.
Oh goodness where do I begin! If I have a project at work due in two weeks I get it done in 1! I use this as an example when my girls have a school project due. Knock it out.
Organizing things was something I learned when I used to work. You can take a lot of on the job skills and use them at home. You can adapt them to fit your lifestyle.
What a great book and post! There are so many skills we can take from work and our every day lives to teach to our children.
What a great post! This is all so true. I think being organized is a great work skill that is really needed at home to keep everything running smoothly for the kids.
The good thing about my gig as a food blogger is that kiddo can take part in it by helping with the cooking. We tend to turn some of our cooking experiences into life learning lessons the way my mom did.
I wish I would have known how to advocate for my Daughter when she was young. That was many years ago. Now, she has her own children so this book may help her.