🚨 Are you seeing signs of Hurried Child Syndrome in your home? 🚨 Here are some things to look out for: ⚠️ Constantly rushing from activity to activity, impacting meals & sleep. ⚠️ Your child or YOU feel overwhelmed by the busy schedule. ⚠️ Dreading the jam-packed days. ⚠️ Little to no free play or unscheduled time. ⚠️ Chronic fatigue, difficulty managing emotions, or frequent headaches. ⚠️Performance anxiety or tying self-worth to achievements. If this sounds familiar, it might be time to slow down. Here are some tips in addition to the ones I mentioned above: ✅ Allow Rest & Downtime: Let your child have free time, even moments to be bored—it helps creativity and relaxation. ✅ Prioritize Core Family Time: Make sure you’re scheduling time to connect with each other during the week that isn’t filled with extracurriculars. ✅ Teach Time Management: Sometimes, saying “no” to activities is the best lesson in balance. ✅ Set Realistic Goals: Focus on achievable, individualized goals for your kids (and yourself!). Every person has different capacities. Celebrate the effort your child gives, instead of focusing on just the outcome. Hurried Child Syndrome is all over social media right now. In this week’s PedsDocTalk Newsletter, I dive deeper into why it’s so prevalent and how you can combat it in your own family. Comment or DM me ‘NEWSLETTER LINK’ to join our mailing list and get biweekly emails with relevant parenting and child health info delivered straight to your inbox. Do you see signs of Hurried Child Syndrome in your home? Do you feel the pressure of a too-full schedule? How do you find ways to slow down and allow time for rest? Share below. Our world does tend to tell us that doing more is better, but there is beauty in slowness and well-being matters more than any achievement. ❤️