Career-Driven Mom Takes Year Leave to Focus on Son’s Speaking Woes, Shares It Never Held Her Back
his life, but it hasn’t hindered her career path in the slightest.
Ifeoma, from Lagos, Nigeria, shared on social media in January this year, speaking to fellow parent professionals, reassuring them that a career break needn’t deter them from being successful.
“In June 2015, they told me my [6-year-old] son had to repeat the class due to speech challenges,” Ifeoma explained on LinkedIn on her son’s 10th birthday. Being held back, she said, would place her son OJ in the same class as his “bossy little sister” a humiliation few brothers would relish.
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Cocoa Beverages West Africa at Mondelez International head of marketing and full-time mom Ifeoma Chuks-Adizue opens up about the benefits of choosing your family over career. As a working mom, she says she was worried when she had to take a break from her work.
Chuks-Adizue told Good Morning America that a person has to make hard career choices for the family sometimes. She explained that it could be very painful, especially for a career-driven person, but admittedly, she said that it pays off in the long run.
Taking time off from work to care for her son