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[quote=Anonymous]So I’m a people pleaser by nature, and one of my biggest challenges as a parent is learning to say no to requests for help from other parents. Don’t get me wrong, im happy to help when I can but have my hands full as a SAHM of 3 young children. How to you say no to the requests for help — without feeling guilty and without leaving the door open for the other person to push you t say yes? Requests I’m talking about are along the lines of:

Can you watch my kid for the morning?
Can we carpool?
Can you handle my snack duty at the preschool?
And (not directly parenting related but coming from fellow moms) - can I talk to you about my MLM business?

Every time I get one of these texts with these types of requests my heart sinks and I agonize over how to respond. It’s often easier to just say yes even though I don’t want to do it. And these requests come from many people - it’s not like it’s from  one particular family.

Am I alone here? How do you handle this type of thing?[/quote]

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