After School Stress

09/20/2006

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. Cummings

Brandeis researchers Ros Barnett and Karen Gareis have found that parents with greater concerns about their children’s after-school arrangements are more than three times as likely to report high levels of job disruptions. These disruptions include missed work, distractions on the job, and poor quality of work.

On average, the researchers reported in Work & Family Newsbrief (July 2005; www.workfamily.com), working parents with high levels of after-school stress miss about three days of work per year for that reason and were found to be more frequently interrupted, distracted, and drained of energy at work. They are more likely to make errors, turn down requests to work extra hours, and miss meetings and deadlines at work.

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