This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. At self-work, we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world and what to do about them.

I'm Dr. Margaret and self- Work as a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today for your own self work.

Hi, thanks for joining me today on self work. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford, I'm a clinical

psychologist. I've worked out of Fayetteville, Arkansas since 1993, although I started in Dallas,

Texas, went to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,

I'll give a shout out to them, and I worked there for a couple of years.

But I've been here in Arkansas and I decided back in 2012 that I wanted to extend the walls of my

practice I wanted to try to take what I'd learned as a therapist from my many patients who taught me many things.

And I wanted to offer what I'd learned to you.

I started out blogging and now I'm podcasting and I'm delighted with the kind of feedback I'm getting that it's

nice to hear how a psychologist thinks how she or he feels what advice I might have for you and that a podcast is a perfect way for me to reach you.

You may be in counseling, you may never have even considered going into therapy,

but you're curious about what a psychologist might have to say.

Maybe you're a therapist yourself, so if you are welcome.

Today we're going to be talking about parenting, and I don't think there is a more difficult thing to do than

to be a good enough parent. It's hectic, it's complicated, it's fatiguing, it's

wonderful, it's meaningful, it's frightening. It's

it's complicated, it's wonderful, it's meaningful, it's frightening, it's full of sacrifice and the need to cooperate with your partner.

You know, you would think that having someone else to parent with you would make it easier,

and it does in some ways just ask a single parent.

But how often have you been in charge of your kids,

and then the other parent comes home and all hell breaks loose. I know it

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