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Everything dual career parents need to support each other as partners, professionals, and teammates.
- Addresses two-career families through the lens of working parenthood—and all the tradeoffs, communication, and decision-making challenges that accompany these very full lives.
- Provides practical tips and advice for working parents for how they can succeed in taking care of work needs and family needs.
- Includes a mix of recognizable experts with new voices to give readers a variety of angles and guidance.
- Includes real-life examples that readers can relate to and see that they're not alone in their struggles.
- Provides a quick reading experience with highlighted tips and summary boxes for the busy parent.
- Introduction from series editor Daisy Dowling, working parent expert and author of WorkParent.
Audience: Partnered parents at all stages of their lives—from those juggling young children and babies to folks who are handling the teenage years and beyond. Partnered parents but will also address challenges facing dual career parents that are no longer together. For both knowledge workers and those earning hourly wages.
Summary
Build your careers, your family, and your life—together.
When you're part of a two-career family, you manage the competing demands of your careers, child-rearing, and household chores along with your relationship with each other. Can you both chase your dreams, raise good citizens, make time for your hobbies and your health—and maintain a strong relationship?
Two-Career Families provides the expert advice and practical solutions you need to address the challenges you face as working-parent partners, from negotiating responsibilities at home to making career decisions to supporting each other's growth.
You'll learn to:
- Build and maintain a team mindset
- Tackle daily demands while tracking long-term goals
- Make fair trade-offs
- Deal with crises and setbacks
- Balance it all—or most of it
The HBR Working Parents Series provides support as you anticipate challenges, learn how to advocate for yourself more effectively, juggle your impossible schedule, and find fulfillment at home and at work. Whether you're up with a newborn or planning the future with your teen, you'll find the practical tips, strategies, and research you need to make working parenthood work for you.
