Jacqueline ElliottLeadership Strategist | CEO, Mother, Wife, Legacy-Builder

This is how you stop feeling guilty when leaving your kids for work ⬆️‼️ #shorts

28 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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A short monologue addressing working mothers who feel guilty about not spending enough time with their children. The speaker argues that guilt often stems from not being intentional with time; quality focused attention for short periods (e.g., 10–40 minutes) can make children feel valued, whereas unfocused full-day presence often fails to connect.

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How many of you women feel that way, that you feel like you're not giving enough to your families, you know, because you're working all the time? A lot of people ask me, how do you handle business? Because I feel guilty because I don't spend enough time with my kids. And then I ask them, hey, how much time are you spending with your kids? And they tell me, well, two hours. And I'm like, two hours. I'm like, that's unbelievable. Two hours. I see a lot of women that spend two, four, five, even all day with their kids and not. They're not intentional with their time. They. They get home and they're thinking about somebody else or something else, or thinking about work or social media. They're not even paying attention to their kids. Their kids are running around and they don't even know them, and they're with them all day. So I can be with my kids 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 40 minutes, 10 minutes. And I make them feel like they're the most important kids in the whole entire world. I make them feel like they are my everything. That's a problem with people all the time, that they're not where their feet are, they're thinking about something else.