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When Your Child Asks You to Play But You're Always Too Busy

My eight-year-old keeps asking me to play with her and I keep saying 'in five minutes' but five minutes never comes because I am always doing something that feels urgent but probably isn't.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tyranny of false urgency is stealing the irreplaceable moments that actually matter.

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“Where Are You with Time and parenting — what it means to be there?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.