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Finding Balance - Valuable Tips For The Stressed and Busy

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Updated: June 03, 2008

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Consult Your Inner Child

Maintain balance with the help of your inner child.

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Remember when you were a child, and you imagined what your life would be like when you were grown up? You probably only imagined yourself doing exciting things, not some of the minutia you probably get bogged down by right now. Although it’s unrealistic to be only doing things that are ‘fun’ (sometimes we need to take a break from skydiving and going to parties to do a few loads of dishes and pack lunches for the next day), it can be helpful to remember to try to keep fun things in your life and stressful things out of it.

Source:

Schoppe-Sullivan, et al. Maternal Gate-Keeping, Co-Parenting Quality and Fathering Behavior in Families With Infants. Journal of Family Psychology, June 2008.

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