Promoting Parents' 'Me' Time for Balance
Yogamates.com
Taking dedicated “me” time when you have a family and a job helps maintain a more balanced, calm and happy existence for ourselves and our families, according to Dr. Jeffrey Dolgan, senior psychologist in Behavioral Health at Children's Hospital Colorado. Dr. Dolgan supplies reasoning for taking personal time to promote a happier existence in life in a recent article featured on yogamates.com, a Web site for the yoga community.
When adults are over-worked and exhausted, parenting challenges multiply. “Parents activate kids just like kids activate parents,” says Dolgan. When parents take a break, “we see marvelous changes in the kids,” says Dolgan, who runs family therapy programs. “Parents come back more refreshed, calmer and with a different mindset.”
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