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The Guilt Paradox: Why Efficient People Make Better Parents (Not Worse)

Fleur van der Laan

Fleur van der Laan

@Fleur van der Laan

The Guilt Paradox: Why Efficient People Make Better Parents (Not Worse)

You're terrified that working faster means caring less. The data proves you wrong.

The 5 PM Promise You Can't Keep

It's 4:47 PM. Your daughter's soccer practice starts at 5:30 PM. You promised you'd be there.

You have 17 unread emails.

You know the pattern:

  • Skip the soccer practice → guilt all evening
  • Leave now → guilt about unfinished work + emails tomorrow morning at 6 AM

Either way, you lose.

This is the productivity guilt trap: The belief that working efficiently means you don't care enough. That "good parents" stay late. That leaving at 5 PM makes you a "slacker."

Research from 1,200 working parents proves this belief is destroying families—and it's completely backwards.

Fleur van der Laan

Fleur van der Laan

COO & Voice dictation user

As COO of various software companies, Fleur has worked in Marketing, Support and Product development. All of these functions required her to create a lot of content. With ParrotKey she wrote a lot of blog articles, product descriptions and support articles. She also translates support tickets from customers to english and send the customers their answer in their own language.

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