Children & Burnout

1. Title:

Burnout Hurts Children Too!

 

2. Introduction:

“Take Heart! You have not turned into a monster parent;your brain is just doing its job. Once you have identified the fact that you have reached compassion fatigue and take action to remedy that, balance will be restored.” – Sarah Naish.

 

Children of caregivers shouldn’t be affected by their guardian's stress or burnout from their work. But parents should try to eliminate before portraying onto children.Stress or burnout hurts the caregiver’s mental, physical and emotional which can lead to depression and anxiety. These consequences can hurt their children’s academic and behavioral selves. 

 

3. Background: 

Readers should know how common burnout is among healthcare workers, and what it looks like to portray it onto other people. Withdrawing from children's activities can make the child think they did something wrong. 

 

• Children can change behavior due to always having negative emotions from their peers and display out of normal reactions. Children may exhibit aggression, defiance, attachment issues, anxiety and struggle to regulate their cognitive development. 

• Negative children act out at school or towards others because of parents' burnout not realizing their source isn’t from themselves.  Such as, not attending school, more exhaustion, decreased motivation and self-esteem. 

• Caregivers should find outlets to burnout before reflecting onto their young children, creating positive relationships in and outside of the home. Multiple ways to outlet this is exercise, admit your feelings, ask for help, and schedule breaks. Even if the break if for 10 minutes, it can positively improve how you treat your children.

 

4. Findings:

A peer reviewed source that supports this claim is TheImpact of Perceiving the Child as Difficult on Family Functioning: The Mediating Role of Parental Burnout and the Moderating Role of Parental Task Sharing and Parental Psychological Flexibility. 

 

o This article explains how if parents split up responsibilities and adapt to stress, they can decrease the negative reactions and behavior onto their children. Establishing clear boundaries and prioritizing others self care communication needed to help their children. Consistent routines for you and your children create stability. Self care not only for yourself but your partner or aid can reduce stress. 

o This is important for my topic because caregivers never realize the importance of minimizing negative impacts toward their children, since they think they can’t interpret the burnout. If caregivers focus on each child’s strengths and weaknesses particularlypertaining to them individually, it can show how the caregiver and child are supported. 

 

5. Conclusion:

The biggest take away can be children catch onto their parental burnout from their line of work. A hard working and time-consuming job take more than just commitment but time, effort and new growth.

The reader should care to prevent their future or someone they know future struggles of juggling children, work, burnout, and balance.  

 

6.Visual Idea: See below. 

7. Author Byline:

By Kaylee Mautner I am majoring in Nursing at Franciscan Missionaires and plan to graduate in 2027. I plan to be a Travel RN and hope to eventually come back to complete my NP. Snce I was I middle school I knew I wanted to help people in the best way possible. With the loss of my teo grandfathers, I have decided to hopefully go into the CVICU. I choose this topic because of the burnout I already started experiencing along with hard work life balance.