Work-Family Ready: Navigating Your Job While Parenting Teens

By Julia Beck, Scott Behson Ph.D., Amy Beacon Ed.D.

As children grow older, the demands on parents shift from physical care and constant supervision to emotional support, guidance, and logistical coordination. For working parents of preteens and teens, this phase brings challenges that require new strategies and a more flexible approach.

To help you with your work and teen-parenting demands, Work-Family Ready has been written by psychologists, family counselors, and other experts, most of whom are also navigating life while parenting teens. Other contributors include business school professors who have studied the intersection of work and family, HR professionals who have helped scores of employees navigate work-life challenges, and organizational consultants who have helped managers and employers better support their employees.

Inside you will find:

Actionable advice on protecting family time from the creeping demands of workTime-management tips and ways to partner with your teen, co-parent, and othersGuidance on constructing appropriate boundaries so that you can attend to work demands and advance in your career without neglecting things at homeHow to balance being a parent to a teen with other caregiving responsibilities.Perspectives on how workplaces and managers can be more supportive of employees facing work/teen challenges, how we can leverage these resources, and how we can support our coworkers and peers.

Work-Family Ready lays out what's at stake both for the workplace and at home and the importance and benefits of support from employers and managers in navigating these challenges.

Contributors include:

Amy Beacom EdD, founder of the Center for Parental Leave Leadership

Julia Beck, founder of the It's Working Project

Kelly Chandler, PhD, Associate Professor in the School of Human Development and Family Sciences, Oregon State University

Heather Cluley Bar-Or, PhD, Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Human Resource Development at Villanova University

Brian Page, founder of Modern Husbands

Eden Pontz, Executive Producer and Director of Digital Content at the Center for Parent and Teen Communication at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Andrew C. Pool, PhD, MSc, research scientist at the Center for Parent and Teen Communication at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Susan Russo, Adjunct Professor of Strategic Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior & Leadership and Ethical Decision Making, Fairleigh Dickinson University Silberman College of Business

Jennifer Sabatini Fraone, Executive Director, Boston College Center for Work & Family

Karen Clark Salinas, MSW, founder of Rebalance Wellbeing after 30+ years at Johns Hopkins University

Alyssa F. Westring, PhD, Vincent de Paul Professor and Chair of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Driehaus College of Business, DePaul University

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FHF1D8MR
• ISBN13: 9798990650527
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Wise Action
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"