Idolising Children?

I’ve always had an interest in the work-life balance debate because I think our attitudes to work and productivity impact significantly on our children and contribute to the reasons why we idolise and misplace what is actually best for them.

Mum hasd been feeding me a few newspaper articles that are starting to share the stories of over-worked duel income households who are getting fed up with the pace of it all. It is fine when they are child-less, but people with children can’t maintain the ethic of 14-16 hour days many industries now expect.

So, it was disappointing not to see greater disapproval with Kevin Rudd’s recent comments about the work ethic he expects of the public service - day and night I understand he said.

Thankfully, Andrew Hamilton of the continually great Eureka Street online journal holds our PM to account…strange no one asked Kevin what happened to the hard fought for 40 hour working week.

Read a great piece here - http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=7566