Mom, dad, I get it. There’s just one more thing you need to get done. Right after that one other thing, which of course, is right after the other thing. There’s always just one…more…thing. Does it ever stop?!?

The truth is, no, IT never stops. Which means it’s up to YOU to do the stopping.

Busyness is certainly nothing new, but we are living in a day when parents are wearing “busy” and “exhausted” as badges at an alarming rate – as if the quality of our parenting equals the quantity of our activity. Let me let you in on a little secret… SPOILER ALERT: it doesn’t!

SPOILER ALERT: the quality of your parenting does not equal the quantity of your activity.

For parents, it is true what they say: the days are long, but the years are short. The lie that “busy” tells you is “you’ll have time for it later”. And then later comes, then comes again, and again, and before you know it, you look up and all the “laters” have come and gone and in the meantime, you missed out on the many everyday moments that are such a gift in the life of a parent.

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