Make Your Kids Feel Notably Special in Under 10 Minutes a Day
As parents, some of us feel a little lost from day one. You are sent home from the hospital with a fragile newborn baby in your arms, clueless of your ability to keep it alive. The nurse handed you a 2-page instruction sheet that talks mostly about how to clean the baby’s belly-button, and she sends you off with a mere “good luck”. For others, like me, the baby stage seemed to make sense. Of course it was challenging in it’s own way, but it was full of simple routines, plenty of cuddling, and no back-talk. It felt natural. It wasn’t until my three kids got a little older that this deer-in-the-headlights look became my baseline expression. I sometimes describe it as feeling “numb”. There is so much on my “plate”, that I just drop that stupid plate and blankly stare. There are activities, homework assignments, and bums to be wiped. Although my primary goal each morning is to emotionally be there for my kids, when I constantly have an overflowing bucket of demands, I feel more...