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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People regularly suggest paper plates.  That never sounds like it will make life significant easier to me, but I will try it.  We already do a lot of screen time.  Give me other suggestions, please.[/quote]

Not exactly the same type of advice, but it is a suggestion to make life easier that works.

1. Make peace with imperfection. Work is never ever going to end. So, settle in and make peace with the process and understand it may be messy sometimes.

2. Stop caring about other people’s opinions. As an empath this was a hard practice for me, but once I realized I could still care about people but not be so impacted by their responses, it cleared a huge mental space that was formally occupied with anxiety or worry.

3. Practice learning how to allow your emotions to inform you, but allow your free will to control your response. Seek factual information from a neutral 3rd party on the power of constructive thinking. Construct your thoughts to make life easier and the outcome will sustain itself indefinitely. Despite crisis.

4. Be kind to yourself as a parent. We set arbitrary criteria all alone on what successful parenting looks like. We can jazz it up and serve it pretty on a platter, or hide it from the world. But it really boils down to 3 things: loving your child, protecting your child, and teaching them to one day do the same one day. It will look different for all of us. Refer to #1-4 again if you get stuck.

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