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Hi Dr. Mona, I absolutely love your podcast. I'm whispering this question as I have two,

kids three and one years old asleep. My question is how do you cope when the phrase goes,

it takes a village but you have no village? I was recently listening to your self-compassion

is more important than self-care podcast and I was just wondering when just the two parents

and there are no grandparents to help whatsoever and haven't been for three years. I even

gave birth by myself. How do you find time for yourself if you never leave your children?

Ever because of COVID we've never gonna sit or anything like that in three years time.

So if you have any tips, I would love to hear them. I'm sure it's applicable to other caregivers

and other situations as well as single parents who may be don't feel comfortable having child

care outside of the home or maybe I should work on that. I would love to hear your thoughts.

I love your podcast. I love everything you do. You have really helped me through this challenging

time. Bye. Thank you so much for this question. I love this aspect of the Pete's dog talk podcast

where we can talk about education for pediatrics but also talk about how we can get through

the difficult times as parents. So raising kids in that proverbial village is one of the hardest

things when in this pandemic we just haven't had this and maybe even some parents before a pandemic

didn't have their village. Maybe they were in a location away from family and friends but we're

gonna see different spectrums of this. We're gonna see some people who have their village have

their connections and then some people who are just feeling very isolated. For you it has been

three years. That is a long time and you even said that you delivered a baby alone. Talk about

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