These moments offer a perfect opportunity to both teach and learn from your children. Listen to what they are noticing about how they are living their lives. As you talk to them about real priorities, good perspective, and engaging their practicing minds, you are also reviewing lessons for yourself. Are you following the same advice you are giving to them? Are you teaching them that you hold the same priorities for yourself? On more than one occasion when I have been overworked, I have talked to my daughters about the importance of balance in life and how at times priorities need to be
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