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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHeart Radio. Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to notice and embrace one-on-one time with the people you care about.

Special occasions are great, but there might be moments in everyday life that can be special as well.

Long-time readers and listeners know that I've often tried to do mommy days with my kids.

I have a lot of kids, and it can be really fun to spend a day with just one of them, doing what the kid wants to do.

I know a lot of people try to do something similar, especially over the summer, when more flexible schedules

make that possible. But it is not always possible. And even if it is, it is probably not

wise to pin all your hopes for a relationship on a particular day. Instead, I think it's also

wise to notice and embrace one-on-one moments that just

happen in the course of life. Even if they aren't planned, they do happen. And they can be meaningful

too. For instance, there are plenty of times when out of necessity a parent is just with one kid.

Maybe you are taking a teen to an orthodontist appointment in the middle of a school day. Maybe you are driving a kid to a

swim meet on the other side of town. Maybe one kid is out of friends and you only have the other

at home and you need to run an errand. With a mindset of noticing and embracing one-on-one time,

you can pay more attention to these instances

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