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If you're like most moms, you're probably running your kids all over the place for their various activities.

I knew a mom who was racking up about a hundred miles a day driving her kids around.

But maintaining your sanity while you do that, it's the last thing on your mind.

You're just trying to go from here to there. There's no sense of balance.

And Danny, you're the head of our parenting and youth department, you're a therapist.

Why do well-meaning moms push sometimes

past the limits of common sense well I would say that it's that day-to-day

repetition that they get into and the stress builds up over time.

My wife and I were talking about that.

What tends to burn you out is what I asked my wife?

And she said, just the the repetition the groundhog day.

We're doing the same thing over and over again and then new things are piled on and we know that we all know

the stress brings out poor parenting.

We have great intentions, stress comes in and poor parenting comes out.

And so we want to look for that in our own parenting, but intentionally put in moments of maybe dates that you go out with

your spouse to break up the mundaneness and the routine.

Maybe it's helping one another as a spouse if you're coming home and the other one has been at home or working.

Hey come alongside of your spouse and then show gratitude for the work that they're doing.

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