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Meals
31.8% of families only eat breakfast together on weekends. However 11% (↓ from 12%) of families never eat breakfast together.
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Emotions
Like our previous survey, parent’s emotions are quite a contrast. The two words parents felt best described family life over the previous three months were happy 49% (↓ from 54%) and stressed 39% (↑ from 36%). These were followed by overwhelmed 37% (↑ from 34%) and content 27% (↑ from 23%).
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Expenses
39% (↓ from 40%) of parents have struggled to meet essential expenses like food, mortgage/rent, utility bills, child care or important medical care over the past 12 months.
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Budgeting
26% (↓ from 29%) of families do not believe they have enough money left after essential expenses to purchase much of anything they really want.
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Future
51.5% (↓ from 54.5%) of parents believe their children face a tougher future than the one they have grown up in. Only 3.1% thought their children would have fewer problems, and 45% (↑ from 42%) thought the level of challenges would remain the same, they would just be different.
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Family time
48% (↓ from 53%) of parents believe they spend less time with their children than their parents spent with them.
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Behaviour
38% of parents say they sometimes, often, or always offer their child rewards such as money or toys to get him/her to do what they want.
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Reading
62.6% (↑ from 59.5%) of parents set aside one-on-one time to read with their child for at least 20 minutes either often or always. However, 14% of parents never or rarely set aside this time to read.
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Happiness
64% (↓ from 66%) of parents are happy in their role as a parent “most of the time”. Sadly however, 1.7% (↑ from 1.5%) are unhappy “most of the time”.
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Relaxation
45% (↓ from 46%) of parents rarely or never take time out to relax or clear their mind (for example: relax in a bath, read a book, chat with a friend, take a walk).
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Discipline
72% (↓ from 73%) of parents would rarely or never intervene if they saw someone else’s child misbehaving in public and their parent was unaware.
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Screen time
15% of children are being occupied by 2 or more hours a day of screen time. 8% never use screen time and 1% have more than 4 hours a day.
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Time out
65% (↑ from 62%) of parents believe more quality time for themselves would positively influence how happy they feel in their role as a parent. This was followed by more quality time with their child 58% (↑ from 53%), more sleep 44% (↑ from 43%), and better financial resources 43% (↓ from 45%).
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Television
Despite the rise of mobile devices, it is television which is still occupying children’s screen time. 64% of children’s screen time is usually or often used on television, followed by 24% on tablet and 9% on smartphone.
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Managing time
88% of parents use their child’s screen time to complete household chores. Other popular uses of this time include cooking 72%, “me time” 23% and making phone calls 21%.
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Concerns
Exercise and weight loss are troubling parents with 28% very or extremely concerned with both issues. Also in the top five concerns were work/life balance (23%), finances (23%) and chores/housework (19%).