An individual’s development is influenced by multiple settings of the surrounding environment as well as the interrelationships among those settings. The theory includes four systems: the immediate environments such as family and work (microsystem), the interrelationships among multiple settings such as the relations among home, work, and neighborhood (mesosystem), settings that influence the developing individual indirectly such as partner’s workplace (exosystem), and a broader setting such as cultural values and global events (macrosystem).
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Managing Work From Home With Young Children: A Realistic and Technology-Enhanced Guide
Jamie L. Krenn (Teachers College, Columbia University, USA), Monica Miaoxia Chan (Teachers College, Columbia University, USA), and Keying Wang (Teachers College, Columbia University, USA)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 26
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-3996-8.ch002
Abstract
Whereas other chapters might provide information on how to work, in this chapter, readers might contemplate the question of what happens when working from home with young children. With the hectic pace of modern life, families unexpectedly or by choice are stressed, balancing parental duties and job tasks while working from home. Negative feelings in a work-from-home environment stem from the stresses of sudden space-sharing to maintain a career and young ones' developmental needs. As a result, young children might feel isolated and have a higher risk for mental health issues, perhaps from the shared space and reduced attentive care. This chapter connects work and daily child-related activities to create a more manageable work-from-home lifestyle. Readers will learn how to utilize cognitive, developmental, educational, and social psychologies and ecological theory in this often-turbulent environment. Any workforce can benefit from implementing these “attitude changing” suggestions into the home to benefit the well-being of working families.