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Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

A Rhythm for Slowing Down

Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Are you tired? The truth is, many parents feel that way. Danny and John give some sobering stats on how exhausted moms and dads are today. Then, Jim Daly talks to Chris and Jenni Graebe about some ways you can be intentional to slow down, get some rest and enjoy time with your family.

 

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0:00.0

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0:03.3

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0:12.4

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0:14.7

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0:16.3

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0:23.3

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0:32.5

I was talking to a dad whose daughter goes to school about seven in the morning and they pick her up at 8.30 or 9 at night. She spends all day at school and I'm thinking maybe things could slow down a

0:45.6

little bit. How do you get a hold of this? How do you slow life down and enjoy it just a little bit more?

0:52.0

We're going to have some practical ideas for you today on the show.

0:55.5

I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta, who leads our parenting team.

0:59.1

And Danny, it feels to me just intuitively that if there are stats out there, and maybe there are,

1:07.7

but parents today are probably more burned out and kids are more burned out than ever before.

1:14.8

Is that right?

1:15.8

I would say they're burned out.

1:17.9

I don't know than ever before.

1:19.3

Okay.

1:20.0

Right.

1:20.3

But statistics.

1:21.0

Back when life was, I have to get this done or we will die.

1:25.2

There's some hard pieces to humanity.

1:29.8

And I would imagine parents were uh in difficult situations then but for now working parents the number is 92 percent of

1:37.2

working parents say that they are at the point of burnout oh my goodness uh so only a single digit

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