Dr. Becky Kennedy

As a working parent, if you are with your kids in the morning, for me, I can just tell you what's been successful.

My phone has to be behind two doors.

It's not one door.

If it's one door, I am like a bead of honey.

I don't know.

I just hear a ding.

It feels like it's so important.

Two doors.

Not there because really when we're not near our phone, what we're saying to our kids during that moment is there is nothing more important than you.

Someone having your full attention is the ultimate connection builder.

Oh, yes.

And connection is the foundation of everything we want.

Resilience, cooperation, right?

Why aren't our kids listening to anything we say?

Well, there could be a million reasons, but one of them is I don't listen to people when I don't feel connected to them, right?

So connection is really at the core.

then I think throughout my day, the different feelings I have are depending on the week is, you know, some balance of, okay, right now I'm doing exactly what I want to do.

Right now I'm doing nothing I want to do.

And there definitely are some nights when I feel like I'm drinking from a fire hose, but I try to remind myself they're often in times of transition.

Okay.