You and your children can learn from errors. By reviewing blunders, you can learn to recognize your weak spots and try to compensate for them. Hang on to your sense of humor. Raising children is serious business. But you have to laugh at yourself or you are sunk.
Laughter is good medicine, the only all-purpose human antidote.
It doesn't cure parental imperfections, but it can help heal wounded pride. The common threads running through the challenges and strategies in balancing work and family are attitude and communication. Families must communicate, must talk openly about what they think and how they feel. Family members must learn to listen so they can understand how others think and feel. A successful balancing act requires cooperation and teamwork.