Stressed from work or life? Spending just a few moments with your kids could be the antidote you need. This conversation emphasizes how children’s innocent perspective can help melt away adult worries and pressures. By reconnecting with their joy and simplicity, you can gain clarity on your challenges. Instead of being weighed down, find fun and reminder of life's unburdened moments with them. You'll return to your problems refreshed, ready to tackle them one at a time with renewed perspective.
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Spend Time With Kids
If you feel upset, spend time with your kids.
This helps put your problems into perspective and reminds you of what's important.
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Perspective of Children
Kids offer a refreshing perspective, free from anxieties and cynicism.
Their presence can be grounding, reminding adults of simpler joys.
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Embrace Childlike Wonder
Let your kids' positivity influence you.
Reconnect with the simpler times before overwhelming responsibilities.
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You’re upset because you just blew it in that meeting. You’re kicking yourself because you meant to get up early and ended up sleeping through your alarm and missing a flight. You’re stressed about the business, you wish your marriage was better, you hate the way your house looks from the street. You can’t watch the news without being disgusted or outraged or worried.
What should you do? How can you deal with the creeping overwhelm that each of these problems has come to represent?
Go spend time with your kids. Seriously. 5 minutes. 15 minutes. 5 hours. Watch as those feelings melt away. Not because you’ve ignored them, but because they’ve been placed in perspective. Your kid doesn’t think you’re garbage because you messed up at work. Your kid doesn’t care about the economy. They’re not anxious. They’re not cynical. They’re not riding you about anything.
They’re present. They’re happy. They’re grateful. They’re wonderful and they think you’re wonderful. Soak that in. Let them rub off on you. Have fun. Be reminded of what life was like before all these responsibilities fell onto your shoulders. And then, properly refreshed and reset, go back and tackle your problems the only way you can: one at a time, in the way that’s best for you and the people you love.
The Daily Dad