Children have an uncanny ability to detect stress levels. You may think you're hiding it well, but your children can feel when you're relaxed and they can feel when you're stressed out.
So what do we do? The way I see it, we have two options. We either get a lot better at hiding our stress or we stop getting stressed so frequently.
It's hard to recover from a rough morning. I don't know about you, but when my morning feels rushed, the whole day seems to be off.
It's hard enough to be disciplined about your morning without kids. Add children to the mix, and you've got a real challenge.
It's easy to think you're alone in this challenge, but you're not. All of us with school-aged children struggle with the morning routine.
No matter how hard we work, there'll always be occasional hectic mornings. The goal, however, is to make those mornings the exception and not the rule.
Here are a few tips that may help you regain control of your mornings.1
