Hello and welcome to the Amos for Mama podcast I'm your host Abby Halberstadt

happy wife mama to 10 Bible Leaving Christian.

And today we're going to talk about the concept

of giving each of our children the kind of love

and attention that they crave,

knowing that they are seen and heard and cared for is so important to kids and

one of the main questions that I get asked every single week when I do what do you

want to know Wednesday on Instagram which is a weekly Q&A that I do is how do you pay enough attention to your children you have so many I only have three and I feel like I struggle to divide my attention equally to give them what they need kids are always wanting me to read with them, play with them, spend time with them,

lie down with them to go to sleep, and I just feel pulled in so many different directions.

So how do you do that with 10 kids? And I'm going to delve into some very specific

answers and give you some really practical suggestions for ways to be successful in making

connections with your kids regardless of the number that you have, regardless of their

personalities. But one thing I want to start with is this brief tidbit of encouragement.

I think that we make this too complicated.

And what I mean by that is this, we have come to understand that quality time with children means something spectacular.

It means pony rides and cotton candy and trips to the zoo and ice cream and one-on-one dates

and sleepovers and stay-up nights and all kinds of things that are

wonderful and good and can be great ways to connect with our children on an

occasional basis but aren't sustainable in day-to-day life.

So what I think people are usually asking me

is, how do I make this connection

and how do I keep that kind of tenuous cord tethered

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