What do you do when you get overwhelmed and need a break from being mom?
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Put the kids to bed, make a drink and take a hot bath 
Self care 
side note: it’s important/vital that kids see us/other people in their life do things to unwind so they know how to properly implement self care. (It also helps self regulation and lessens the chances of coping with drugs and alcohol later on in life).
I take a bubble bath (door locked and headphones in)
Go sit outside
Go for a walk
Go see a movie by myself
Sleep in when I need it/can get it
Tell my kids I’m putting myself in time out for 10 min and I set a timer…and reset myself.
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I typically just go into my room and watch some tv and have some time to myself. When I’m off work I usually keep my son home from school he can only go to daycare 4 days a week and plus it gives him a break from being over stimulated however he’s been going 5 days school and then daycare and it’s been nice to just have some time to myself.
I just keep going. I don’t get a break.
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It depends on how tired, over stimulated or stressed I am. Sometimes it looks like me sitting in the parking garage lot of the grocery store eating fast food while I scroll tik tok. Sometimes it’s me locking myself in my walk in closet screaming into a pillow, and sometimes I go get my eyebrows waxed and a pedicure/manicure. There is always variations but i tend to stick to these. Lol
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Finding any excuse to leave the house just to breathe and just have time with your own thoughts
Listening to music and or going to a shop and taking your time
Turn your phone off
Buy yourself your fav choc and drink
By the time you get back home you are feeling abit lighter and things become more manageable and tolerable lol
Smoke a blunt n keep it pushin
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Self care. Wine. Trashy reality tv 
don’t really get real breaks so…
Depends on a lot of factors really
Are you a single parent?
Have a support system?
Age of child(ren)?
Babysitter?
Day of week?
Time of day?
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I have reached out to my bestie to hang out with my youngest for a couple hours. I usually just go get groceries alone, or get a mani. My kids are 23, 20 and 8. The oldest are out on their own, so I don’t see them as much as I would like. I think because I am an older mom, and I really miss my older 2, I don’t need as much “me” time as I used to. I want to spend every moment with the little one, because I know how fast it goes.
I delegate and tell people how I am feeling is the incredibly short version.
Tell his dad that it’s his turn. Or his big sister watches a movie with him.
Take a deep breath and whooooza get n lil bit crazy not to much… then go on😎
My break time is getting all my kids to bed. 11yrs, 8yrs and 11months. When they are all asleep including husband I watch shows lol or some nights when they go to sleep I will have some wine and hang out with my husband listening to music.
Nothing! Lol my kids are 2 and 4 and i can count on one hand how many times ive had a babysitter
Ashley Lambert what do you find so hilarious?
I go to the basement because they’re scared of it. Good place to hide and breathe for a minute
It always depended on how old my children were(all grown up now) when they were little it would be a favourite old movie and a hot chocolate and as they got older it was wine, crisps and an old movie lol
As long as you have kids you don’t get a break.
Wait. What? What is this break you speak of???
Once a month my brother and sister in law take two of the four kids. We don’t have any other family that we trust with our kids so we don’t get completely free nights but we take what we can get lol
Do the laundry. Never ends.