When You're Exhausted as a Parent
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
How can parents keep it together when they feel so tired? Danny and John give some encouragement to exhausted moms and dads. Featuring Amber Lea and Wendy Speake.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast. You can find more helpful advice at |
| 0:06.8 | Focus on the Family.com slash parenting podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | You know in parenting there are so many rewarding moments it is a joy but like |
| 0:17.7 | anything that brings those kinds of rewards there are some challenges and difficulties and it's pretty common to feel exhausted after a long day. |
| 0:27.6 | I mean, I personally I can be just full on here at focus all day long and I get home and then something happened. |
| 0:35.8 | My wife has a need, an extended relative, has a crisis. |
| 0:40.1 | One of my kids shows up and wants to talk and I've got nothing for them. |
| 0:44.6 | What are you doing those moments? |
| 0:46.4 | Well, I'm John Fuller, along with my focus colleague, Dr. Danny |
| 0:49.6 | this is pretty common, I think, for a lot of lot of us parents you've referred to it before |
| 0:54.4 | it's hard work what about the parent who maybe is identifying with me they're saying yeah yeah |
| 1:00.4 | I'm just exhausted. I'm tired. |
| 1:03.0 | You have a lot of those. I mean, that's really a common phrase that parents say that I see at the store, that I see in my counseling practice it's not just counseling right it's |
| 1:14.9 | people are tired and it was interesting to read a survey that just happened |
| 1:20.4 | here 2021 involving 17,000 parents from 42 countries and the |
| 1:26.4 | burnout potential is highest in the United States and in France worldwide. |
| 1:31.1 | And they said it's really because of individualism and the focus on |
| 1:35.9 | independence that you have to have it together. You can't rely on other people |
| 1:41.3 | otherwise you're not doing well. This is the mindset that we have. |
| 1:46.0 | The mindset right. You're not saying that's no no no that's right. This is the mindset that leads |
| 1:50.8 | potentially the burnout because we're not willing to lean into other |
| 1:54.8 | people or into counseling or other things where we say I'm just so tired can you |
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