'Children inherit stress from parents

 
Mothers and fathers with career burnout pass on their feelings of disillusionment at home increasing probability of their offspring losing interest in schoolwork, according to the researchers from the Academy of Finland’s educational arm.

The team quizzed more than 500 teenagers and their parents to know whether they have ever experienced burnt-out.

They found that children of parents who feel burnt-out at offices, begin to worry that they are not keeping up with their classmates, become cynical about the value of education and exams and may even start to experience the exhaustion that accompanies burn-out.