Give Yourself a Time-Out: The Key to Mom’s Health and Well-Being

When my four kids were young, there were many days when some variation of this scenario would unfold. My husband would be traveling for work and I would be working on a tight writing deadline. Without warning, one kid would wake up vomiting with a high fever, another would come home from school devastated over a fight with a friend, another would have a major project due the next day and need supplies we didn’t have, and another would have Little League championship game that evening.