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Will children be happier when their mum or dad is always around? I don’t think this is best for all children. I know that in my case it would drive me crazy, if the only thing on my mind would be the children (I love them more than anything), cooking and cleaning. I would become very unhappy and that for sure is very bad for the children.

Luckily I can back-up my opinion thanks to Ellen Galinsky. She is the co-founder of the New York Families and Work Institute and conducted a five-year study on work and parenting, and the children’s perspectives on that. Galinsky claims that children don’t mind if both their parents work but they must make them (the children) number one priority. Galinsky believes the best parenting is intentional and when parents make their children their number one priority they will generally succeed as parents. Well that is good news.