How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t: Budgets, Triggers, & Multi-Tasking

How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t: Budgets, Triggers, & Multi-Tasking

Author: Benjamin Long October 3, 2019 Duration: 48:42

We explore excellence with budgeting and after-school talks and attain imperfection with hyperfocus on budgeting and napping wars. We start our discussion on Carla Naumburg's new book, "How To Stop Losing Your Sh*t With Your Kids." We talk on why we lose it and the importance of writing a new story, social media, prefrontal cortex with fight-or-flight response, and multi-tasking/multi-thinking. Then we end with a new quote for the Parent Board!

Exploring Excellence 1:40
Attaining Imperfection 06:45
Book Review 11:11
Parent Board 46:52


Benjamin Long hosts Minimally Acceptable Parents, a podcast that trades the pressure of perfection for the reality of trying. Each month, Benjamin and his wife open a different parenting book, testing its advice against the messy, beautiful chaos of their own family life. The conversation spans the practical and the profound, rooted in a Christian perspective that values faith, grace, and connection over checklists. You’ll hear the genuine takeaways, the discarded theories, and the small victories found not in flawless execution, but in showing up. This isn’t about achieving a gold standard; it’s about the shared journey of becoming more intentional, often through missteps and laughter. Tune into this podcast for a candid, relatable look at parenting where spiritual growth and family life intersect, acknowledging that most days, good enough is actually great.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 25

Minimally Acceptable Parents
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