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Good morning. This is Laura.

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Today's tip is that you are not the only one who can show love and support to your kids, friends, and extended family.

Other people can show up for them too.

It doesn't always have to be you.

And there may be upsides to showing people the breadth of people

who support them. So my husband and I have five kids in two busy careers, so it is simply not

possible to be at everything for every kid. It is not even a matter of work and life clashing.

You know, that trope of someone being devastated

because a late flight means she misses the softball game.

In my case, it is often life and life clashing.

If one kid has a game at the same time as another kid's game,

there is no way to be at both simultaneously.

It doesn't matter if you are supermom or super dad.

It is still not physically possible.

When people say things like, I've never missed a game, I think, well, they just must not have that many kids.

But anyway, I digress.

We go to a lot and miss other things.

When we can't do something, we can often enlist someone else to go instead.

For instance, my five-year-old had a special person's tea last spring at school right around Mother's Day. I am very glad they called it special persons. I was speaking

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