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Take Time for Yourself Even When Parenting is a Full-Time Job

January 31, 2018 by Kevin McKeever

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Take time for yourself, dad. And you, too, mom. Here are some great tips for having “me time” and a life besides being a parent. (Photo by Michael Henry on Unsplash)

Being an active and involved parent is a full-time job even if you having a paying career outside of the home.

However, that doesn’t mean you should avoid having any “me” time or completely lose your own identity and individuality to parenting. Time for yourself is not being selfish; it’s self-care.

In the latest of our “City Dads Sessions” video series, our Los Angeles Dads Group co-organizer Trevor Mulligan asks several fathers who are full-time at-home dads for their tips and suggestions on how to not to get totally lost as an individual when raising children. Here is what they had to say:

Thanks to these dads who take time for themselves taking time out from the 2017 HomeDadCon at-home father convention in Portland this past September to share their words of wisdom.

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Filed Under: National, parenting advice, relationships Tagged With: City Dads Sessions, self-care, tips, video, work-life balance

About Kevin McKeever

City Dads Group Editor Kevin McKeever runs Write On, Kevin Communications when not being an at-home dad to three: boy, girl and canine. He wrote a two-time nationally award-winning newspaper column, blogs at Always Home and Uncool and tweets as @homeanduncool. His work has been featured in USA Today, Canada’s Globe and Mail, the New York Daily News and landfills worldwide.

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