{"id":303992,"date":"2016-05-11T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/enjoying-the-simple-life\/"},"modified":"2016-05-11T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T15:00:00","slug":"enjoying-the-simple-life","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/enjoying-the-simple-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoying the Simple Life"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Meg Meeker instructs mothers to find a way to live simply and to remember that a mother&#8217;s goal isn&#8217;t to make her kids happy or get them in the right schools, but to teach them to be good, solid people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":294104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"https:\/\/web.familylifetoday.com\/fl2016-05-11.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"22.79M","filesize_raw":"23901951","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2838],"tags":[6003,5048,4087,6002],"podcast_series":[7871],"cwp_profile":[3187],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-303992","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mothers","tag-declutter","tag-motherhood","tag-mothers","tag-simplify-your-life","podcast_series-the-10-habits-of-happy-mothers","cwp_profile-meg-meeker","series-familylife-today"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2024\/09\/FLT-Podcast-Cover-2-508x508-3.jpg?w=508","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2023\/02\/image-scaled.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-download\/303992\/enjoying-the-simple-life","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/303992\/enjoying-the-simple-life","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/familylife-today\/id212174303?mt=2&app=podcast","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0j5UaKdQOHQCuo1bt0ebEm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"youtube":{"key":"youtube","url":"","label":"YouTube","class":"youtube","icon":"youtube.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/feed\/podcast\/familylife-today","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"idsP84EAec\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/enjoying-the-simple-life\/\">Enjoying the Simple Life<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/enjoying-the-simple-life\/embed\/#?secret=idsP84EAec\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Enjoying the Simple Life&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"idsP84EAec\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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You probably have high expectations. In fact, Dr. Meg Meeker says your expectations may be too high.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>A lot of mothers feel angst and stress because of their perceptions about what they <em>should<\/em> be doing. My mantra\u2014to many of my young mothers with young children\u2014is to say this: \u201cYour job\u2014your only job today is to keep your kids alive until they go to bed at night. [Laughter]If you do that, terrific!\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Wednesday, May 11<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. Take a minute, Mom\u2014look around really quick\u2014are your kids still alive? Okay; then you are doing okay. Stay tuned. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>1:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. I just have to say this, at the outset\u2014we\u2019ve been talking this week about how a lot of women feel like they\u2019re under the pile \/ they feel like they are failing. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOf course, the guest we have is a pediatrician\u2014she\u2019s an author, she\u2019s a speaker, she\u2019s the mother of three\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014and she\u2019s a race car driver. [Laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Honestly, I mean\u2014and I think we just have to address this with her\u2014there are a lot of women, who are listening and going: \u201cSee, that\u2019s why I feel under the pile; because she\u2019s a doctor, and an author, and a speaker, and a mother of three\u2014and she does it all. So, I should be able to do it all too.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Right. Dr. Meg Meeker joins us again on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Do you do it all, Meg? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>I certainly don\u2019t. It\u2019s interesting\u2014first of all, when you read the list of different things, <em>nothing<\/em> in my life that I do compares with being a mother\u2014<em>absolutely<\/em> nothing. That has always been my first love. I have a <em>fabulous<\/em> husband, and our family is the center of my life. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI could live without practicing medicine, I could live without writing books, I could live without whatever; but don\u2019t take my kids away from me. They\u2019re my great, great joy. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHere\u2019s the way I did it. I think a lot of young moms forget about this. When I had small children in the home, I wasn\u2019t practicing medicine. I\u2019m one of these people that does one thing very intensely for a period of time; and then, I do the next thing. When our kids were quite small, I was home with them. Also, my husband was extraordinary and very committed to me finishing my residency. When I did my pediatric residency, he stayed home with our two kids. If he hadn\u2019t have done that, I would have never finished my residency because my heart is in my home \/ my heart is with our kids. My husband and I worked it out. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs far as the writing books and things like that, people say, \u201cHow do you start writing a book?\u201d and, \u201cHow do you do it?\u201d If you like to write, you are writing in your mind, all the time. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>3:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat\u2019s one of the things\u2014if I\u2019d be sweeping the floor or cooking dinner, I\u2019d have thoughts\u2014but I did many things over a period of time. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMany people feel they need to balance their life. Many people in their 30s and 40s feel they need to get everything done right now\u2014like, \u201cIf I\u2019m going to have a career, I better do it right now.\u201d That\u2019s not true. I\u2019m an empty-nester. God-willing, I\u2019ve got 15\/20 more years of work ahead of me, hopefully. I have a <em>whole<\/em> lot of time to do that. Mothers, who are feeling overwrought and overburdened with small kids in their home, don\u2019t listen to what the world is telling you: \u201cYou need to find value outside of those kids.\u201d Because if you have children, whether you have a job or whether you don\u2019t, you\u2019re great value is in being those children\u2019s mother. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you do want to have a career \/ you do want to do other things, God will give you enough time. One pastor told me one time when I was worried about getting enough things done\u2014he said, \u201cYou will die right on time.\u201d I kind of squirreled my face up; and I said, \u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe said, \u201cIf God really wants you to get something done, He will give you the time on earth to get it done.\u201d In other words, ten years down the road \/ fifteen years down the road. Take a big, deep breath. Don\u2019t push too much into today or tomorrow, but let it work itself out over time. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>That\u2019s easy for you to say. Barbara would say, \u201cThat\u2019s hard for me to do.\u201d I mean, Barbara, when she was a mom, the most oft repeated phrase, \u201cI am <em>so<\/em> tired.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>Tired. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u201cI am <em>so<\/em> tired.\u201d You\u2019ve written in your book\u2014and you\u2019ve addressed this issue of busyness, and tiredness, and what young moms are facing today. You\u2019ve written a book called <em>The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers<\/em>. Habit number eight is \u201cFind ways to live simply.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Bob: <\/strong>I thought this was interesting\u2014a Type A, Meg Meeker\u2014talking about finding ways to live simply. Is this something that you needed to learn on your own? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Meg: <\/strong>Definitely. I will tell you\u2014I perceive that I live a pretty simple life right now. One gal asked me on a radio program: \u201cYou know, you talk about solitude. How much time in solitude do you spend?\u201d I said, \u201cAbout two or three hours a day.\u201d She kind of gasped! Well, I\u2019m home; and my husband works a lot. I like to write, but I carve that time out because that\u2019s what I need\u2014to spend time with God. Any mother can simplify her life. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think there are two things that you need to really think about here. A lot of mothers feel angst and stress because of their perceptions about what they <em>should<\/em> be doing. We have that huge list of: \u201cI should do this,\u201d \u201cI need to do this.\u201d Simplifying sometimes means approaching those thoughts, and batting them away, and saying: \u201cI\u2019m not going to believe that,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m not going to believe that,\u201d \u201cNo, I don\u2019t need to do that.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you have small children at home, it\u2019s extremely hard; but my mantra\u2014to many of my young mothers with young children\u2014is to say this, \u201cYour job\u2014your only job today is to keep your kids alive until they go to bed at night. [Laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cIf you do that, you are successful.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You have won. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>Now, if you add to that, <em>terrific<\/em>; but your job really is just to get by and to get through those very, very difficult days. Sometimes, there are some things you just can\u2019t cut out. You know, you can\u2019t stick your kids in the backyard and leave them there for an hour if they are two years old; but as kids get older, we really can simplify. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI encourage mothers to write down every day, for a week, what they do. Write down <em>everything<\/em> you do. Then, cross out the bottom three. Free up 15 minutes during the day. We really don\u2019t need to do everything that we do. We believe that we need to do it, and we need to change those beliefs as well. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, you know, we look at kids going into young adulthood. We see kids who are headed in the wrong direction. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou\u2019re raising your three-year-old; and you go: \u201cI don\u2019t want that to happen. So, I\u2019ve got to get him into the right preschool,\u201d or \u201cI\u2019ve got to get him into this,\u201d \u201cThey\u2019ve got to do that.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe have these standards because, again, the goal is, \u201cWe want our kids to be happy, healthy, well-adjusted, and able to earn a living.\u201d We\u2019re watching kids who aren\u2019t doing that and we think, \u201cI got to make sure that my kids do it.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>We need to attack those thoughts, and peel that off, and say, \u201cIt\u2019s all wrong,\u201d\u2014our goals are wrong. Our job, as mothers, is not is to keep our kids happy all the time. Our job, as mothers, is not to make sure that our kids go to the most expensive school. Our job, as mothers, is to love our kids very well, to keep them very safe, and to teach them to be good, solid people. If they have talents \/ if they have an extraordinary intellect, that will emerge on its own. It\u2019s not our job to dig into that child and yank it out. That\u2019s really what we\u2019re all trying to do. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOur job is to really surround that child with a lot of love, protect them, take good care of them, and let them\u2014who they are going to be will emerge before us. Really, focus on their <em>character<\/em> and teaching them great character. Teach them about faith, teach them to be humble kids, teach them to be courageous, and start going in that direction. Get off of the list that we have made for ourselves on what we need our kids to be and do. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>How many of your observations about these moms come from your practice as a pediatrician? I mean, are you watching them kind of come into your office? You can listen to the dialogue between parent and child. You\u2019re hearing it escalating\u2014busyness, hurriedness, frantic type of behavior. Are you watching that happen in your practice?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>Oh, absolutely. I\u2019ve watched it escalate, particularly, over the past 15 years. I\u2019ve seen it. I\u2019ve seen the look in mothers\u2019 eyes and the expression on their faces\u2014just says to me: \u201cI\u2019m exhausted. I\u2019m afraid. I\u2019m not doing a good job. Please, help me! Help me! Help me!\u201d <br>\u00a0\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI will tell you\u2014the self-esteem in mothers and their sense of <em>value<\/em>, as a mom, has plummeted over the past 15 years. It really has. Again, because we feel that we\u2019re just not being who we should be to and for our kids. We\u2019re really, really, really wound up. It\u2019s very concerning to me. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You challenge moms to take a step back, and carve out 15 minutes out of their schedule, and make their life simpler. If you had a couple of young dads across the table from you\u2014these young dads can really help their wives, and these young moms, know how to simplify their lives. Coach a young man in helping his wife do this.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>It\u2019s a great question. I get a lot of dads who ask\u2014they\u2019ll come and say: \u201cHelp me. Help me. My wife is going crazy, and I don\u2019t know how to help,\u201d or \u201cI\u2019ll tell her, \u2018Slow down\u2019; and she won\u2019t.\u201d I tell them: \u201cPhysically, women do need help with work. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cPhysically, men are stronger. In the evenings, pitch in and make sure you help out with the kids. Pitch in, and help out in the kitchen, and doing some of the chores, if you can, because a little bit of that goes a long way.\u201d <br><br>I think the other thing to do\u2014many husbands will say: \u201cHoney, stop doing that,\u201d and \u201cStop doing that. Why do you need to do that? Don\u2019t you know you are driving yourself crazy?\u201d I think a much better approach is to find the qualities in her that make her a great mom and applaud her for those. Show her that you appreciate them: \u201cYou are so patient with our kids. I love to see that. You are so calm around our kids. You are so tender and kind with our kids. I really appreciate that.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tReally, talk about and applaud her character as a mom. That will earn you her ear. Then, as you draw a little bit closer and you can open the conversation a little bit more\u2014say: \u201cI\u2019m really concerned because you are so tired. I\u2019m really concerned because I think your expectations of what you\u2019re to do are too high. I\u2019m worried about <em>you<\/em>.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>That\u2019s<\/em> how a husband can really start to encourage his wife to back off and to simplify. If he says he\u2019s really concerned about <em>her<\/em>\u2014those are really great ways to do that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Early in our marriage, Barbara and I\u2014after we\u2019d had a few children\u2014we went to the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. I believe this is the correct name of the balloon\u2014it was called the Double Eagle II. It was an attempt to cross, as I recall, the Atlantic Ocean. We saw it there\u2014had a little film on it. It kind of became symbolic of what we were trying to do, as parents, and what I tried to do with Barbara. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe Double Eagle II was losing altitude because ice developed on top of this three- or four-story tall balloon. It began to press it down toward the Atlantic Ocean as it neared the coast of Ireland. In order to make the flight all the way to Lindbergh Field, they had to throw things overboard. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey threw all their radio equipment, they threw a hang glider overboard, they threw books, journals\u2014everything went overboard until finally the balloon gained enough altitude so they could complete the mission. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>What Barbara and I would sit down and do on our date nights\u2014we had a date night, Sunday night. This would be my coaching tip to a young dad: \u201cEstablish a date night where you develop the discipline\u2014even look at it like a spiritual discipline\u2014of stripping away the things that are pushing your balloon downward \/ that are going to cause you to miss the objective. Pitch them overboard, throw them overboard, get rid of them. As a couple, agree on what you need and what you don\u2019t need. Be ruthless about your schedule because the schedule keeps on filling up and filling up.\u201d <br>\u00a0\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEven with our best efforts, Meg, many of those date nights\u2014we would end exhausted because we\u2019d have some pretty stimulating discussions over what we were going to pitch and what we were going to keep\u2014and a lot of it was around the kids\u2019 schedules. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>It\u2019s hard, particularly, when\u2014you know, even take a single mom that\u2019s trying to do that and saying, \u201cI need to simplify,\u201d\u2014and she doesn\u2019t have a husband to sort of bounce things off of. She feels that her job, as a good mom, is to keep her kids busy and doing all these things. It\u2019s very hard for her to start cutting, and slicing, and dicing; but I think you are absolutely right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMake rules. One of my rules when our kids were young, and even in high school, was I would have no meetings in the evenings. I never left the house in the evening\u2014you know\u2014no choir \/ no PTA. Even a lot of the <em>great<\/em> things that I could do, I didn\u2019t do. Our kids were allowed one extra-curricular activity per semester. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere were many times my husband even told the kids they couldn\u2019t go to youth group because we were going to be home, as a family, on a Wednesday night. You know, \u201cNow, that\u2019s anti-Christian;\u201d but he felt that we needed to be together as a family. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOn weekends, we always had two meals together as family. The kids, at the time, complained, \u201cHe is too strict,\u201d and, \u201cHe was this.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>I\u2019ll tell you\u2014now, in their 20s, they are <em>so<\/em> <em>grateful<\/em> that he did that; but you absolutely have to make rules with your schedule. Take out your schedule, a pen, and a piece of paper. Start cutting off what you\u2019re not going to do because so much of what we do\u2014that we <em>feel<\/em> that we need to do\u2014we don\u2019t need to do it all. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>In your practice, as a physician, do you see some moms\u2014a few\u2014who are doing it right? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>Oh, I have some <em>great<\/em> moms\u2014absolutely <em>great <\/em>moms. When I talk to them about starting down this path\u2014and mothers will look at my book and go, \u201cThis is just too overwhelming. Ten habits\u2014I can\u2019t even\u2026\u201d I say: \u201cTake little bites at a time. Work on one habit over six months. Work on finding a little bit of solitude. Work on just finding a little bit of silence in your day. I have some <em>extraordinary<\/em> mothers who are doing great jobs with their kids, and I try to write about them. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>What\u2019s an example of one that you\u2019d look at and say, \u201cHere\u2019s the kind of mom I\u2019d hold up and say, \u2018Be like her\u2019\u201d? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>Okay. I have one mom who has\u2014I think she has a seven-year-old and a five- year-old. She had a very, very lucrative career. She quit her career when her oldest was two; and she decided to stay, full-time, at home. Rather than transferring the intensity that she used to put into her job onto her kids\u2014because that\u2019s what a lot of career moms will do\u2014she decided that she wanted a sane, calm, wonderful home. She makes a point of taking her kids out two or three times a week, and they play. They do something\u2014the three of them together. She goes out and literally plays with her kids at the park. She talks to me about how her kids can only do one thing at a time. They can only do gymnastics, or they can only do swim team. She really limits it. She makes sure that they have time at home as a family. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI will tell you\u2014when I come into the room to see her, her kids are a delight to see. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere is calm in the room. The kids aren\u2019t crazy. There\u2019s a real calm. I think that\u2019s the most extraordinary quality about her life\u2014is that she is very calm and has made a <em>point<\/em> of making that the tenor of her home. I doubt, seriously, she was calm when she was working full-tilt. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I want to pull the pin on a grenade and roll it out on the table here; okay? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>Sure. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I have no idea how you are going to answer this question. I\u2019m just curious as to what you\u2019ll say. Do you think some of the diagnosis of children who suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder is because they\u2019re in families who are overdosed on adrenaline, running to and fro so fast? All they\u2019ve ever known is they\u2019ve been trained by parents doing more, going more places, trying to jam more into each day so that becomes the pattern of their brain.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>Yes. Definitely; I think it\u2019s dramatically over-diagnosed. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI put kids, in my practice, through a <em>whole<\/em> lot before I would start to treat them for ADHD. There is a common quality to a lot of kids who have ADHD. That is, if you look at the structure of their lives, there is chaos\u2014bedtimes are different, their school schedules are different, and they are running around. There is no sense of order and rhythm to their day. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne of the character qualities I see a <em>lot<\/em> in home-schooled kids is that they are quieter, more patient children, who interact very well with adults. If you took\u2014I\u2019d love to do an experiment\u2014if you took 100 kids from your typical school in the third grade and you took 100 home-schoolers, and you put them in a room together and you asked them to sit down for two hours\u2014there is no question that the home-schoolers would have an ability to sit much longer than the other kids because the other kids are used to a much faster-paced life. That\u2019s a deep concern of mine. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>One of the things that I do\u2014when I have mothers, who have, typically, boys with ADHD\u2014is I say: \u201cIf we are going to use any kind of medication, you must make some changes in his life. He has to have a structured day. It cannot be a frenetic day. He has to have some down time. He has to learn to sit and read black words on a white page for 15\/20 minutes \/ a half an hour a day. He has to get off of some of the video games and the electronics because the electronics and the video games are <em>way<\/em> too stimulating for a child with ADHD.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tInterestingly, a very high percentage of the boys, who have ADHD, are hooked on these games. So I think that the point that you\u2019re driving at\u2014which I think is a point that will probably emerge in studies over the next ten years\u2014is that there is probably a strong correlation, maybe a linear correlation, between ADHD, and chaos, and frenetic life. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Now, just because we\u2019ve got some moms, who are going, \u201cOh, you just put me under the pile in saying that I\u2019m the reason my kids have ADHD,\u201d\u2014there are kids, who have got some neurochemistry going on. You\u2019re just saying it is way over-diagnosed\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>Way over-diagnosed. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014and we\u2019re not helping. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>ADHD is a very real phenomenon. There are plenty of kids with ADHD, who have fabulous mothers that are doing a whole lot, right in their homes. They\u2019re just throwing their hands up. There are, also, a whole lot of kids, who are living very, very chaotic, frenetic, over-the-top lives, who don\u2019t have ADHD. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain, having ADHD is not a mother\u2019s responsibility or problem. Moms don\u2019t give it to their kids. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat I\u2019m saying is\u2014all kids across America need more order and calm in their lives, <em>particularly<\/em>, kids with ADHD\u2014because, if you have a child who has a propensity towards it, a little too much chaos \/ a little too much freneticism in his life will tip him over the edge and make him <em>appear<\/em> as though he has ADHD. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Well, I want you to know I really appreciate that you\u2019re bullish on moms and that you\u2019re for moms because, I think, they need a champion today. I think there are all these messages, in the culture, that just chip away at the value of these young moms. They need someone like a Dr. Meeker, coming alongside and saying: \u201cYou know what? It\u2019s good to be a mom. It\u2019s a high holy privilege and calling.\u201d I think you wrote about it at the beginning of your book: \u201cIf you can get your arms around the value that you possess, as a mom, you would beam because of the assignment God has given you.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, and not just the value of being a mom, but the confidence that you can do this and do it well. It just takes a little coaching to help you out. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt takes having, as you said, Dennis, somebody like Dr. Meeker come along and say, \u201cHere; I can give you some suggestions that\u2019ll help you thrive in this arena.\u201d And that\u2019s what you\u2019ve done, Dr. Meeker, in your book, which we have in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center. The book is called <em>The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers<\/em>, and you can order a copy from us, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com; or you can call 1-800-FL-TODAY to get your copy. Again, online, FamilyLifeToday.com; or call 1-800-FL-TODAY to get a copy of the book, <em>The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers: Reclaiming Our Passion, Purpose, and Sanity<\/em>, by Dr. Meg Meeker.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know, we have had a chance this year to acknowledge a lot of anniversaries. I\u2019m always excited to share about somebody\u2019s very first anniversary, but I also get excited when it\u2019s anniversaries over 30 years because that says something in our culture today. And today Craig and Paula Meade, in Burlington, Iowa, are celebrating 31 years of marriage together. \u201cCongratulations!\u201d to the Meades\u2014hope your anniversary day today is extra special.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, you should know we\u2019re trying to help everybody\u2019s anniversary this year be extra special. We have some ideas we can email you or text you if you\u2019d like to know how your anniversary could be a <em>best<\/em> <em>ever<\/em> this year. Go to FamilyLifeToday.com. Give us your anniversary date, and we\u2019ll send some thoughts out to you on how to have a special celebration. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, you should know, we\u2019ve had some friends of the ministry, who are aware that this is our 40th anniversary. They\u2019ve come and want to make sure we have a special celebration this year. They have agreed that, during the month of May, they\u2019re going to match every donation we receive, here at FamilyLife, dollar for dollar, up to a total of $350,000. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>23:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, the thing that does for us is\u2014that gives us more ministry fuel in the tank \/ more opportunity to do more ministry throughout the rest of this year if we\u2019re able to take advantage of this matching gift. And to take advantage of it, we need your help. Would you consider going to FamilyLifeToday.com and making an online donation in support of our ministry?\u00a0 Or call 1-800-FL-TODAY to donate; or you can mail your donation to us at <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, at PO Box 7111, Little Rock, AR; the zip code is 72223. Again, any donation you send us in May will be matched, dollar for dollar, up to a total of $350,000. So thanks for supporting us and for helping us take advantage of this matching gift.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>24:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, tomorrow, we want to talk about how families can thrive spiritually. Jason Houser\u2019s going to join us. He\u2019s the head of Seeds Family Worship. Some of you sing Seeds songs around your house. Jason\u2019s going to be here to talk about what they\u2019re doing at their home to try to implant spiritual truth in the lives of their children. I hope you can tune in for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine. 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You probably have high expectations. In fact, Dr. Meg Meeker says your expectations may be too high.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>A lot of mothers feel angst and stress because of their perceptions about what they <em>should<\/em> be doing. My mantra\u2014to many of my young mothers with young children\u2014is to say this: \u201cYour job\u2014your only job today is to keep your kids alive until they go to bed at night. [Laughter]If you do that, terrific!\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Wednesday, May 11<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. Take a minute, Mom\u2014look around really quick\u2014are your kids still alive? Okay; then you are doing okay. Stay tuned. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>1:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. I just have to say this, at the outset\u2014we\u2019ve been talking this week about how a lot of women feel like they\u2019re under the pile \/ they feel like they are failing. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOf course, the guest we have is a pediatrician\u2014she\u2019s an author, she\u2019s a speaker, she\u2019s the mother of three\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014and she\u2019s a race car driver. [Laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Honestly, I mean\u2014and I think we just have to address this with her\u2014there are a lot of women, who are listening and going: \u201cSee, that\u2019s why I feel under the pile; because she\u2019s a doctor, and an author, and a speaker, and a mother of three\u2014and she does it all. So, I should be able to do it all too.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Right. Dr. Meg Meeker joins us again on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Do you do it all, Meg? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>I certainly don\u2019t. It\u2019s interesting\u2014first of all, when you read the list of different things, <em>nothing<\/em> in my life that I do compares with being a mother\u2014<em>absolutely<\/em> nothing. That has always been my first love. I have a <em>fabulous<\/em> husband, and our family is the center of my life. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI could live without practicing medicine, I could live without writing books, I could live without whatever; but don\u2019t take my kids away from me. They\u2019re my great, great joy. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHere\u2019s the way I did it. I think a lot of young moms forget about this. When I had small children in the home, I wasn\u2019t practicing medicine. I\u2019m one of these people that does one thing very intensely for a period of time; and then, I do the next thing. When our kids were quite small, I was home with them. Also, my husband was extraordinary and very committed to me finishing my residency. When I did my pediatric residency, he stayed home with our two kids. If he hadn\u2019t have done that, I would have never finished my residency because my heart is in my home \/ my heart is with our kids. My husband and I worked it out. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs far as the writing books and things like that, people say, \u201cHow do you start writing a book?\u201d and, \u201cHow do you do it?\u201d If you like to write, you are writing in your mind, all the time. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>3:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat\u2019s one of the things\u2014if I\u2019d be sweeping the floor or cooking dinner, I\u2019d have thoughts\u2014but I did many things over a period of time. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMany people feel they need to balance their life. Many people in their 30s and 40s feel they need to get everything done right now\u2014like, \u201cIf I\u2019m going to have a career, I better do it right now.\u201d That\u2019s not true. I\u2019m an empty-nester. God-willing, I\u2019ve got 15\/20 more years of work ahead of me, hopefully. I have a <em>whole<\/em> lot of time to do that. Mothers, who are feeling overwrought and overburdened with small kids in their home, don\u2019t listen to what the world is telling you: \u201cYou need to find value outside of those kids.\u201d Because if you have children, whether you have a job or whether you don\u2019t, you\u2019re great value is in being those children\u2019s mother. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you do want to have a career \/ you do want to do other things, God will give you enough time. One pastor told me one time when I was worried about getting enough things done\u2014he said, \u201cYou will die right on time.\u201d I kind of squirreled my face up; and I said, \u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe said, \u201cIf God really wants you to get something done, He will give you the time on earth to get it done.\u201d In other words, ten years down the road \/ fifteen years down the road. Take a big, deep breath. Don\u2019t push too much into today or tomorrow, but let it work itself out over time. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>That\u2019s easy for you to say. Barbara would say, \u201cThat\u2019s hard for me to do.\u201d I mean, Barbara, when she was a mom, the most oft repeated phrase, \u201cI am <em>so<\/em> tired.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>Tired. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u201cI am <em>so<\/em> tired.\u201d You\u2019ve written in your book\u2014and you\u2019ve addressed this issue of busyness, and tiredness, and what young moms are facing today. You\u2019ve written a book called <em>The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers<\/em>. Habit number eight is \u201cFind ways to live simply.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Bob: <\/strong>I thought this was interesting\u2014a Type A, Meg Meeker\u2014talking about finding ways to live simply. Is this something that you needed to learn on your own? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Meg: <\/strong>Definitely. I will tell you\u2014I perceive that I live a pretty simple life right now. One gal asked me on a radio program: \u201cYou know, you talk about solitude. How much time in solitude do you spend?\u201d I said, \u201cAbout two or three hours a day.\u201d She kind of gasped! Well, I\u2019m home; and my husband works a lot. I like to write, but I carve that time out because that\u2019s what I need\u2014to spend time with God. Any mother can simplify her life. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think there are two things that you need to really think about here. A lot of mothers feel angst and stress because of their perceptions about what they <em>should<\/em> be doing. We have that huge list of: \u201cI should do this,\u201d \u201cI need to do this.\u201d Simplifying sometimes means approaching those thoughts, and batting them away, and saying: \u201cI\u2019m not going to believe that,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m not going to believe that,\u201d \u201cNo, I don\u2019t need to do that.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you have small children at home, it\u2019s extremely hard; but my mantra\u2014to many of my young mothers with young children\u2014is to say this, \u201cYour job\u2014your only job today is to keep your kids alive until they go to bed at night. [Laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cIf you do that, you are successful.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You have won. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>Now, if you add to that, <em>terrific<\/em>; but your job really is just to get by and to get through those very, very difficult days. Sometimes, there are some things you just can\u2019t cut out. You know, you can\u2019t stick your kids in the backyard and leave them there for an hour if they are two years old; but as kids get older, we really can simplify. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI encourage mothers to write down every day, for a week, what they do. Write down <em>everything<\/em> you do. Then, cross out the bottom three. Free up 15 minutes during the day. We really don\u2019t need to do everything that we do. We believe that we need to do it, and we need to change those beliefs as well. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, you know, we look at kids going into young adulthood. We see kids who are headed in the wrong direction. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou\u2019re raising your three-year-old; and you go: \u201cI don\u2019t want that to happen. So, I\u2019ve got to get him into the right preschool,\u201d or \u201cI\u2019ve got to get him into this,\u201d \u201cThey\u2019ve got to do that.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe have these standards because, again, the goal is, \u201cWe want our kids to be happy, healthy, well-adjusted, and able to earn a living.\u201d We\u2019re watching kids who aren\u2019t doing that and we think, \u201cI got to make sure that my kids do it.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>We need to attack those thoughts, and peel that off, and say, \u201cIt\u2019s all wrong,\u201d\u2014our goals are wrong. Our job, as mothers, is not is to keep our kids happy all the time. Our job, as mothers, is not to make sure that our kids go to the most expensive school. Our job, as mothers, is to love our kids very well, to keep them very safe, and to teach them to be good, solid people. If they have talents \/ if they have an extraordinary intellect, that will emerge on its own. It\u2019s not our job to dig into that child and yank it out. That\u2019s really what we\u2019re all trying to do. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOur job is to really surround that child with a lot of love, protect them, take good care of them, and let them\u2014who they are going to be will emerge before us. Really, focus on their <em>character<\/em> and teaching them great character. Teach them about faith, teach them to be humble kids, teach them to be courageous, and start going in that direction. Get off of the list that we have made for ourselves on what we need our kids to be and do. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>How many of your observations about these moms come from your practice as a pediatrician? I mean, are you watching them kind of come into your office? You can listen to the dialogue between parent and child. You\u2019re hearing it escalating\u2014busyness, hurriedness, frantic type of behavior. Are you watching that happen in your practice?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>Oh, absolutely. I\u2019ve watched it escalate, particularly, over the past 15 years. I\u2019ve seen it. I\u2019ve seen the look in mothers\u2019 eyes and the expression on their faces\u2014just says to me: \u201cI\u2019m exhausted. I\u2019m afraid. I\u2019m not doing a good job. Please, help me! Help me! Help me!\u201d <br>\u00a0\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI will tell you\u2014the self-esteem in mothers and their sense of <em>value<\/em>, as a mom, has plummeted over the past 15 years. It really has. Again, because we feel that we\u2019re just not being who we should be to and for our kids. We\u2019re really, really, really wound up. It\u2019s very concerning to me. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You challenge moms to take a step back, and carve out 15 minutes out of their schedule, and make their life simpler. If you had a couple of young dads across the table from you\u2014these young dads can really help their wives, and these young moms, know how to simplify their lives. Coach a young man in helping his wife do this.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>It\u2019s a great question. I get a lot of dads who ask\u2014they\u2019ll come and say: \u201cHelp me. Help me. My wife is going crazy, and I don\u2019t know how to help,\u201d or \u201cI\u2019ll tell her, \u2018Slow down\u2019; and she won\u2019t.\u201d I tell them: \u201cPhysically, women do need help with work. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cPhysically, men are stronger. In the evenings, pitch in and make sure you help out with the kids. Pitch in, and help out in the kitchen, and doing some of the chores, if you can, because a little bit of that goes a long way.\u201d <br><br>I think the other thing to do\u2014many husbands will say: \u201cHoney, stop doing that,\u201d and \u201cStop doing that. Why do you need to do that? Don\u2019t you know you are driving yourself crazy?\u201d I think a much better approach is to find the qualities in her that make her a great mom and applaud her for those. Show her that you appreciate them: \u201cYou are so patient with our kids. I love to see that. You are so calm around our kids. You are so tender and kind with our kids. I really appreciate that.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tReally, talk about and applaud her character as a mom. That will earn you her ear. Then, as you draw a little bit closer and you can open the conversation a little bit more\u2014say: \u201cI\u2019m really concerned because you are so tired. I\u2019m really concerned because I think your expectations of what you\u2019re to do are too high. I\u2019m worried about <em>you<\/em>.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>That\u2019s<\/em> how a husband can really start to encourage his wife to back off and to simplify. If he says he\u2019s really concerned about <em>her<\/em>\u2014those are really great ways to do that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Early in our marriage, Barbara and I\u2014after we\u2019d had a few children\u2014we went to the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. I believe this is the correct name of the balloon\u2014it was called the Double Eagle II. It was an attempt to cross, as I recall, the Atlantic Ocean. We saw it there\u2014had a little film on it. It kind of became symbolic of what we were trying to do, as parents, and what I tried to do with Barbara. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe Double Eagle II was losing altitude because ice developed on top of this three- or four-story tall balloon. It began to press it down toward the Atlantic Ocean as it neared the coast of Ireland. In order to make the flight all the way to Lindbergh Field, they had to throw things overboard. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey threw all their radio equipment, they threw a hang glider overboard, they threw books, journals\u2014everything went overboard until finally the balloon gained enough altitude so they could complete the mission. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>What Barbara and I would sit down and do on our date nights\u2014we had a date night, Sunday night. This would be my coaching tip to a young dad: \u201cEstablish a date night where you develop the discipline\u2014even look at it like a spiritual discipline\u2014of stripping away the things that are pushing your balloon downward \/ that are going to cause you to miss the objective. Pitch them overboard, throw them overboard, get rid of them. As a couple, agree on what you need and what you don\u2019t need. Be ruthless about your schedule because the schedule keeps on filling up and filling up.\u201d <br>\u00a0\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEven with our best efforts, Meg, many of those date nights\u2014we would end exhausted because we\u2019d have some pretty stimulating discussions over what we were going to pitch and what we were going to keep\u2014and a lot of it was around the kids\u2019 schedules. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>It\u2019s hard, particularly, when\u2014you know, even take a single mom that\u2019s trying to do that and saying, \u201cI need to simplify,\u201d\u2014and she doesn\u2019t have a husband to sort of bounce things off of. She feels that her job, as a good mom, is to keep her kids busy and doing all these things. It\u2019s very hard for her to start cutting, and slicing, and dicing; but I think you are absolutely right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMake rules. One of my rules when our kids were young, and even in high school, was I would have no meetings in the evenings. I never left the house in the evening\u2014you know\u2014no choir \/ no PTA. Even a lot of the <em>great<\/em> things that I could do, I didn\u2019t do. Our kids were allowed one extra-curricular activity per semester. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere were many times my husband even told the kids they couldn\u2019t go to youth group because we were going to be home, as a family, on a Wednesday night. You know, \u201cNow, that\u2019s anti-Christian;\u201d but he felt that we needed to be together as a family. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOn weekends, we always had two meals together as family. The kids, at the time, complained, \u201cHe is too strict,\u201d and, \u201cHe was this.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>I\u2019ll tell you\u2014now, in their 20s, they are <em>so<\/em> <em>grateful<\/em> that he did that; but you absolutely have to make rules with your schedule. Take out your schedule, a pen, and a piece of paper. Start cutting off what you\u2019re not going to do because so much of what we do\u2014that we <em>feel<\/em> that we need to do\u2014we don\u2019t need to do it all. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>In your practice, as a physician, do you see some moms\u2014a few\u2014who are doing it right? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>Oh, I have some <em>great<\/em> moms\u2014absolutely <em>great <\/em>moms. When I talk to them about starting down this path\u2014and mothers will look at my book and go, \u201cThis is just too overwhelming. Ten habits\u2014I can\u2019t even\u2026\u201d I say: \u201cTake little bites at a time. Work on one habit over six months. Work on finding a little bit of solitude. Work on just finding a little bit of silence in your day. I have some <em>extraordinary<\/em> mothers who are doing great jobs with their kids, and I try to write about them. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>What\u2019s an example of one that you\u2019d look at and say, \u201cHere\u2019s the kind of mom I\u2019d hold up and say, \u2018Be like her\u2019\u201d? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>Okay. I have one mom who has\u2014I think she has a seven-year-old and a five- year-old. She had a very, very lucrative career. She quit her career when her oldest was two; and she decided to stay, full-time, at home. Rather than transferring the intensity that she used to put into her job onto her kids\u2014because that\u2019s what a lot of career moms will do\u2014she decided that she wanted a sane, calm, wonderful home. She makes a point of taking her kids out two or three times a week, and they play. They do something\u2014the three of them together. She goes out and literally plays with her kids at the park. She talks to me about how her kids can only do one thing at a time. They can only do gymnastics, or they can only do swim team. She really limits it. She makes sure that they have time at home as a family. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI will tell you\u2014when I come into the room to see her, her kids are a delight to see. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere is calm in the room. The kids aren\u2019t crazy. There\u2019s a real calm. I think that\u2019s the most extraordinary quality about her life\u2014is that she is very calm and has made a <em>point<\/em> of making that the tenor of her home. I doubt, seriously, she was calm when she was working full-tilt. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I want to pull the pin on a grenade and roll it out on the table here; okay? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>Sure. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I have no idea how you are going to answer this question. I\u2019m just curious as to what you\u2019ll say. Do you think some of the diagnosis of children who suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder is because they\u2019re in families who are overdosed on adrenaline, running to and fro so fast? All they\u2019ve ever known is they\u2019ve been trained by parents doing more, going more places, trying to jam more into each day so that becomes the pattern of their brain.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>Yes. Definitely; I think it\u2019s dramatically over-diagnosed. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI put kids, in my practice, through a <em>whole<\/em> lot before I would start to treat them for ADHD. There is a common quality to a lot of kids who have ADHD. That is, if you look at the structure of their lives, there is chaos\u2014bedtimes are different, their school schedules are different, and they are running around. There is no sense of order and rhythm to their day. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne of the character qualities I see a <em>lot<\/em> in home-schooled kids is that they are quieter, more patient children, who interact very well with adults. If you took\u2014I\u2019d love to do an experiment\u2014if you took 100 kids from your typical school in the third grade and you took 100 home-schoolers, and you put them in a room together and you asked them to sit down for two hours\u2014there is no question that the home-schoolers would have an ability to sit much longer than the other kids because the other kids are used to a much faster-paced life. That\u2019s a deep concern of mine. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>One of the things that I do\u2014when I have mothers, who have, typically, boys with ADHD\u2014is I say: \u201cIf we are going to use any kind of medication, you must make some changes in his life. He has to have a structured day. It cannot be a frenetic day. He has to have some down time. He has to learn to sit and read black words on a white page for 15\/20 minutes \/ a half an hour a day. He has to get off of some of the video games and the electronics because the electronics and the video games are <em>way<\/em> too stimulating for a child with ADHD.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tInterestingly, a very high percentage of the boys, who have ADHD, are hooked on these games. So I think that the point that you\u2019re driving at\u2014which I think is a point that will probably emerge in studies over the next ten years\u2014is that there is probably a strong correlation, maybe a linear correlation, between ADHD, and chaos, and frenetic life. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Now, just because we\u2019ve got some moms, who are going, \u201cOh, you just put me under the pile in saying that I\u2019m the reason my kids have ADHD,\u201d\u2014there are kids, who have got some neurochemistry going on. You\u2019re just saying it is way over-diagnosed\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>Way over-diagnosed. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014and we\u2019re not helping. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Meg: <\/strong>ADHD is a very real phenomenon. There are plenty of kids with ADHD, who have fabulous mothers that are doing a whole lot, right in their homes. They\u2019re just throwing their hands up. There are, also, a whole lot of kids, who are living very, very chaotic, frenetic, over-the-top lives, who don\u2019t have ADHD. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain, having ADHD is not a mother\u2019s responsibility or problem. Moms don\u2019t give it to their kids. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat I\u2019m saying is\u2014all kids across America need more order and calm in their lives, <em>particularly<\/em>, kids with ADHD\u2014because, if you have a child who has a propensity towards it, a little too much chaos \/ a little too much freneticism in his life will tip him over the edge and make him <em>appear<\/em> as though he has ADHD. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Well, I want you to know I really appreciate that you\u2019re bullish on moms and that you\u2019re for moms because, I think, they need a champion today. I think there are all these messages, in the culture, that just chip away at the value of these young moms. They need someone like a Dr. Meeker, coming alongside and saying: \u201cYou know what? It\u2019s good to be a mom. It\u2019s a high holy privilege and calling.\u201d I think you wrote about it at the beginning of your book: \u201cIf you can get your arms around the value that you possess, as a mom, you would beam because of the assignment God has given you.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, and not just the value of being a mom, but the confidence that you can do this and do it well. It just takes a little coaching to help you out. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt takes having, as you said, Dennis, somebody like Dr. Meeker come along and say, \u201cHere; I can give you some suggestions that\u2019ll help you thrive in this arena.\u201d And that\u2019s what you\u2019ve done, Dr. Meeker, in your book, which we have in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center. The book is called <em>The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers<\/em>, and you can order a copy from us, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com; or you can call 1-800-FL-TODAY to get your copy. Again, online, FamilyLifeToday.com; or call 1-800-FL-TODAY to get a copy of the book, <em>The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers: Reclaiming Our Passion, Purpose, and Sanity<\/em>, by Dr. Meg Meeker.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know, we have had a chance this year to acknowledge a lot of anniversaries. I\u2019m always excited to share about somebody\u2019s very first anniversary, but I also get excited when it\u2019s anniversaries over 30 years because that says something in our culture today. And today Craig and Paula Meade, in Burlington, Iowa, are celebrating 31 years of marriage together. \u201cCongratulations!\u201d to the Meades\u2014hope your anniversary day today is extra special.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, you should know we\u2019re trying to help everybody\u2019s anniversary this year be extra special. We have some ideas we can email you or text you if you\u2019d like to know how your anniversary could be a <em>best<\/em> <em>ever<\/em> this year. Go to FamilyLifeToday.com. Give us your anniversary date, and we\u2019ll send some thoughts out to you on how to have a special celebration. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, you should know, we\u2019ve had some friends of the ministry, who are aware that this is our 40th anniversary. They\u2019ve come and want to make sure we have a special celebration this year. 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