The Importance Of Family Dynamics

Conventional wisdom has it that there are many factors that influence family dynamics, the place of work for parents tends to have an impact on how much time parents can have with their child/children, how much income is available for the family, and how happy and successful their bonds are between their children and spouses are. The way the family dynamic of the three types of work situations have an affect on the children, marriages and finances. The prosperity and the emotional development depends on the involvement of the parents.
When both parents work outside of the home children can sometimes feel as though they are second best to their parents job/career due to the time commitment a job requires. From what I have witnessed, children …show more content…
Not to say that all stay at home parents are women. With that being said, there are still families that thrive with one of the parents working and a stay at home parent. While one parent is away at work, the other parent is in most cases in charge of keeping the house clean, grocery shopping, and cooking. Under this dynamic, the stay at home parent is usually in charge of getting the kids to sporting events and spending quality time with them while doing homework. Whereas the working parent usually wants to relax, or get tasks done when they come home. This parent had to put in the extra effort and work harder to build a solid connection with their children in their household so they don’t fall short of an emotional connection. Though this may be ideal for the children, this arrangement can be hard to successfully accomplish financially. With only one parent working, financial stress among parents can trickle its way down to the children, as I stated previously, leading them to worry and have anxiety. My dad got laid off from his job and we had to lower our spendings and cut out things like going to the movie, or going shopping for the day. After my dad got hired back on, we all told ourselves that we were going to make it through that tough time, making us a stronger …show more content…
My father works in Wichita and my mother is a stay at home mom due to the fact that we built her hair salon onto our home. She is self employed so she is able to construct her own hours around my sport practices, allowing her to be able to be very involved in both my athletics and my education. My father and I bonded over our love for softball. He took me to the field to work on fielding or to the batting cages to work on my batting form. These efforts were his way of putting forth the effort to build a connection with me. While growing up, I considered myself to be under the third dynamic which consists of one or both parents work from home. Growing up, my father worked outside of the home and my mom worked from home. As a child, having a parent with you to play and spend time with was a luxury, it felt like I had a stay at home parent as I stated previously. It came with advantages and disadvantages. One advantage was having someone there for me when I needed help with homework, one disadvantage was not having enough personal space, my parents were hard on me to do the right things. Yes, this payed off in the grand scheme of things. But was “life ruining” when I couldn 't go to the movies with friends because my homework was not