PARENTING BURNOUT
I'm collecting stories from millennials on their experience of parenting as part of my larger project on millennial burnout. This chapter focuses on 1) the various ways in which parenting has become a particularly complicated and not always visible form of exhausting; 2) the overlap between parenting burnout and burnout in other parts of adult life.

I ask for your first name (you can include a pseudonym, if you'd prefer anonymity) and your email address, in case I have follow-up questions — and to get your address, because if I use your story in the book, I'll send you a copy of it when it comes out.

I'm so grateful for everyone who's contributed their stories to this project already, and those who are taking the time to do so today. It's going to be a better book, and more meaningful to more people, because of you. If you have any questions, you can email me at annehelenpetersen@gmail.com 
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What's your first name (include a pseudonym if you'd like)
Describe your identity, broadly conceived (race, age, education level, current class level, anything else you think is pertinent)
Describe where you live in as much detail as you feel comfortable (rural/suburban/exurban/urban; neighborhood, area of the country)
Describe your basic parenting set-up. Are you a single parent? Who do you co-parent with? Do you have close family nearby that regularly helps with caretaking?
Can you describe the general feeling of parenting burnout? How does it manifest itself?
What's the most bullshit thing about contemporary parenting? (Or, what's the "standard" or "ideal" that seems most ridiculous to you)
How would you describe the division of parenting and domestic labor in your home? (Feel free to use percentages or whatever other way to describe it). Why is it broken down the way that it is? Does it feel "fair"?
Describe your work situation (full-time, part-time, work from home, work full-time as a parent). How does it interact with, ease, and/or exacerbate your parenting burnout?
Describe your family's financial situation — how do you identify your class position, and do you feel secure in it? How does your financial situation affect your experience of burnout?
What's the part of parenting that you think about and just *dread*?
What's the part of parenting that gives you great joy?
What sort of societal, corporate, and governmental policy changes do you think have the potential to substantially alleviate parenting burnout?
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