Am I Super Mom Or Not?

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🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Being a farmer's wife and the mom of six is wearing Evan down, but she doesn't see any way to reduce her daily stress. Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live
0:04.7	radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on serious
0:09.5	XM Triumph 111. Evan, welcome to the program.
0:13.0	Hi, thank you, Dr. Laura.
0:15.0	Hi. I just want to say, it sounds like you already are on your A game today, so I'm really
0:21.5	excited to talk to you.
0:23.0	Oh, okay.
0:25.0	That said, I am a mom and I love it.
0:29.7	It's something I always dreamed about being nothing else, the mom and but I found myself like
0:36.2	taking on too much lately and I'm sorry taking on what?
0:45.9	I just like kids activities and
0:56.2	you know ways to raise money for my kids is college and like there are 4-H projects and swimming team which is like basically for the for them just to learn how to swim well because we spend a lot of
1:00.3	time in rivers and lakes and it just seems like with summer coming up
1:03.6	it's just all kind of come into a head and I went and it's just like physically
1:09.1	exhausting I just by Thursday I'm just exhausted and I don't feel like I'm enjoying my kids as much like I'm not mean to them
1:16.6	but it's just like I'm just tired I don't get to play with them and that you know fun stuff
1:22.1	But I went to my family doctor and he wanted me to see a psychiatrist or
1:27.8	psychologist to figure out how to stop putting stuff on my plate and kind of learn those skills and I figured, you know, that
1:36.1	in itself would be adding to my plate.
1:38.1	So I thought, if there's anyone in the world that could finish or figure this out in five
1:41.8	minutes, it's you. So... Just a little pressure. that could
1:45.0	or figure this out in five minutes, it's you.
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