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Oh, you want to know about exhaustion? Have a child. For the first time we walked in the front

door with our first-born child. Ever since that day, I have not slept well.

And interestingly, that kid is now 30-ish and he's having sleep issues.

And I'm not like rejoicing, but I said, I kind of get that. I've been spending a lot of my life exhausted.

And if you're a single parent, you are certainly understanding what I'm talking about.

In a conversation focused president Jim Daly and I had with Dr. Henry Cloud and John Townsend,

they shared how crucial it is for parents to find support and resources to help you deal with the pressures and the

exhaustion of parenting. You know one of the big challenges and I'm thinking of

you that mom who's exhausted I mean she is working outside the home she's coming

home she's trying to get a meal on the table she's on him about getting their

homework done the kids may be not listening to them or ignoring her, and she's

frustrated and she's worn out. Speak to her heart about some simple steps

again that she might take.

How do you keep those priorities right

when you're utterly tapped out?

I think the first step and it is the most important one

is God's designed for everything is that her first step is not with

her kids. Her first step is to get plugged in to the support and the resources of

some other moms that are going to do a couple of things for her.

They're going to help normalize for her, you know, when she's saying no and this, that,

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