I think what I'm learning about motherhood is that it's an area that I need to keep investing in and keep learning about every single day as my kids grow and change ages and stages.

And so I'm so glad to have done with me from Living by Heart.

She is a licensed family and marriage therapist.

And really just down to earth, it gives us really practical advice of how to be better moms

and parents and women.

And so today I wanted to, I asked Don, I said, okay, give me three tips of how to be a good

mom, but good is in air quotes.

Because that's not necessarily the goal, but it's kind of the goal. As we think about being a mom,

we want to be good moms. So we're going to share three tips with you today that are ultra

practical. And let's just jump in, Dawn. What is your first tip? Welcome to the Minimum Mom

Podcast. We're so glad that you could join us today. We all can identify with having a list of

projects or things we want to accomplish.

And so as moms, I think it's really awesome to see moms who prioritize relationship with their

families and their kids above the checklist. Now, I'm like the first offender on this one,

so I do need to be totally transparent and say, this is a growth area for me

to remind myself to be present, to slow down, to get on the floor to play a game, to take the time

to read a book aloud, you know, and to really give the kids what they're looking for, which is

undivided attention. And I think I almost feel like this was easier when the kids were

littler. It was a different kind of busy, but it's actually fairly easy to connect with two

and three and four year olds to be their hero, to be well liked by them. Yes. But now tell us the

ages of your kids and how that's evolved now that they're getting

older. Yeah. So I have two sons and one is almost 10 and one is 11 and then a daughter who's

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