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slash parenting podcast. We all know a superwoman. She works 8 to 5 and she keeps the house clean and the meals

made and the kids are put to bed and she seems to just kind of do it, no sweat.

If that isn't you though, please know you are not alone.

I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta, head of our parenting department,

and Dr. Meg Maker talks quite a bit about the women who feel like they have to do it all and on

top of that they want to know everything about their child and they want to do everything

they can to take care of their kids but the problem is they just can't stay on top of everything and so there's this nagging feeling that they're failing.

Jim Daly and I talked with Dr. Meaker about how to give yourself permission to slow down a little bit.

I know I should be that thermostat in the home, Dr. Meg, but you know, there's a lot of my plate.

I feel like at times I'm 80% of the parenting because my husband's not as involved or what have you I can hear that

rattling around in my head how does a wife and mother be content in the job that she's doing?

Yeah, one of the things that I encourage mothers to do is write down a list of everything you do.

Take a week and write down what did I do, and what did I feel I should do today,

and then write it down every day.

And then look at that list and knock the bottom half off of it, because that's the stuff you really don't need to be doing.

So prioritize. Prioritize.

And mothers can't let go of the stuff they feel they should do.

And here's I think where it evolved.

You know, feminism came out and women wanted to be as good as men,

or they wanted to show they were as good as men and all these different things.

And we got there. You know, women were this and women were not. to show they were as good as men and all these different things.

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