Are You on Autopilot?

05/17/2017

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope. We also secure the future for our children.
Wangari Maathai, The Green Belt Movement

"Have you ever stopped to consider the true emotional toll parenting takes on you?" asks Monica Bielanko in her Babble article, "Are You Really Seeing Your Children?" "Not the obvious stuff like loss of sleep or the ever-present worry for your kids' general well-being, but the constant, almost subconscious, mental scanning of your little one's needs?

"You're doing it all day, every day. You don’t even realize you’re doing it because it becomes second nature almost the minute your baby is born. But think about the toll all of that CONSTANT analyzing and assessment takes on your system!

"But sometimes, amid the chaos of life, when we're so tired we switch on parenting autopilot, we forget to REALLY look at our children. Not assessing what they need, but looking into their eyes to see how they're really doing, how they're really feeling, as opposed to the constant welfare-check-type scanning a parent regularly does."

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