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Better work-life balance is a key to improving early learning, new commentary argues

The research has created new urgency around the need for high-quality and affordable early education programs that put children on a path to success.

Is it possible to talk about balancing work and family life without invoking the image of the harried working mother? With two young kids, a full-time job, an overworked husband, and a freezer on the fritz, I’ll admit: Not really.

As we recognize and celebrate National Work and Family Month, let’s not devote so much ink to the straits of stressed-out parents that we forget an even more fundamental reason for promoting workplace flexibility. Why do we need better balance? Let’s be blunt: to ensure our country’s economic competitiveness in the years ahead. Today’s kids are tomorrow’s workforce. What society sows today we’ll reap in 25 years as these children take on jobs — whether in health or hospitality, energy or entertainment — that will hopefully sustain our quality of life. They will be competing for positions in a worldwide marketplace that we can hardly imagine.

Lisa Guernsey

Full Story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-guernsey/post_1018_b_753094.html

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