Advising Lawyers to Take Time for Kids

Lawyer Career Consulting DC helps lawyers set limits on clients and colleagues to have time for their children.

Many lawyers are high-functioning parents to their children. Others are not:

• "I’m in a bind. I want to provide well for my kids financially, but also to be with them."
• "I rarely see my kids before I leave for work, and they’re in bed when I come home."
• "My kids are not even happy to see me."
• "I’m smart at work, but a total idiot at home with the kids."
• "I attend all my kids’ soccer games and concerts, but I have no time to talk."
• "I’m an effective parent only on weekends, and often not even then."
• "I get overwhelmed with anger at my kids, for no reason."
• "I can’t stand the mess around the house. At work, I’m highly organized."
• "I resent the burdens imposed by my kids. My partners at work are getting ahead of me."
• "I’m afraid I’ll get old, and discover that I’ve missed the experience of being a parent."
• "I’m afraid my children will confide in a therapist someday that I was never there for them."

Lawyer Career Consulting DC can help you to:

• Manage the anxiety involved in setting limits on demands of work;
• Overcome obstacles to achieving a meaningful work-life balance;
• Accept the trade-offs of professional accomplishment and family life;
• Adapt to the stress andsleep deprivation involved in having a young child;
• Understand how frustrations at work can be displaced on kids at home;
• Enjoy a relaxed family life while also maintaining effective boundaries;
• Learn to communicate better with your children;
• Appreciate the pleasures of family life, while your children are still at home;
• Adjust to loss of daily contact with your children, in the wake of divorce;
• Adapt to the loss when your children grow up and leave home.

"Successful lawyers don’t need to sacrifice their children to serve their clients."