How to combat 5 common holiday wellness challenges

Finding adequate child care is a challenge regardless of the time of year — over half of Americans live in areas deemed child care deserts, according to Zippia — but 68% of working parents say it is especially difficult to manage over the winter holiday season, according to a recent survey by national child care company Bright Horizons. The feeling of falling short of expectations affected 67% of respondents, while more than half reported they felt guilty while attempting to balance work and family time.

“You want to be with family and you want to spend time and shop for your loved ones, but it also tends to be the busiest time from a work perspective because it’s the closing of the year,” says Priya Krishnan, chief digital and transformation officer at Bright Horizons. “All of that compounded [leads to] stress and guilt for working parents, so how do we highlight this issue with employers?”