When a parent loses their job, the pride in the house takes a hit too. Be gentle with it.

Work is tangled up with how adults understand themselves, so losing it takes more than income out of a house. You hear it in shorter tempers, in quieter rooms, in someone avoiding questions about their day. None of that is about you, even when it lands near you. It is a person absorbing a hit to something they had built their sense of usefulness on.

Ordinary kindness does more here than advice. Ask about something unrelated, handle a chore without discussion, keep your own noise low for a while. Fixing it is not your job, and you can still make the house easier.