Most children wish their parents would be less stressed and less tired by work. Children with employed mothers and those with mothers at home do NOT differ on whether they feel they have too little time with their mothers. It is the relationship mothers establishes with her children that matters, not whether or not she works. Throughout the study, Galinsky found that having a working mother is never once predictive of how children assess their mothers parenting skills. However, many children worry about their parents, mainly because they are stressed.
Children say they worry because they care, but also because their parents are very stressed.
That is not only because many parents tend to tell their children bad things that happened to them at work but also because they do not explain the reasons other than financial why they work. Most parents are doing well, according to their kids. While the public in recent polls has expressed a great deal of concern about the quality of parenting children receive, most children assess their parents positively on 12 different parent skills. There are some areas of concern. Less than one third of parents are seen very positively by teenagers when it comes to controlling their tempers when their child does something that upsets them.