Career & Family

If you embark on a family adventure and work part-time or full-time, you need to be well organized and make clear agreements in an equal partnership to create a healthy work-life balance: When does the child have to go to the vaccination appointment? Who will get the present for the child's birthday party? And who will pick up the child from daycare tomorrow?

Organizing everyday life is quite stressful and can quickly become a constant burden. Women are particularly affected by this. Here you can find tips on managing family tasks and how to avoid a so-called mental load, the seemingly endless list of the many small, often invisible things in everyday family life.

If your child wakes up in the morning with a fever or cough, a parent often has to stay at home at short notice to look after the child. If you have statutory health insurance, you can receive child sickness benefit. Here on the Familienportal.NRW, you can find out what else you can do to get relief and what legal or labor law entitlements you have.