Children are constant.

The minuscule time void of active requests is spent following the trail of crumbs, clothes, sticky surfaces, and scattered toys.

When those children are a speed walking one year old baby in diapers, an ever hungry but only eats two bites of anything you give him in-process potty-training two year old, and a six year old with the energy of a thousand monkeys, it's constant chaos.

As a parent, it is all too easy to get lost in the head above water, day to day tasks, chores, needs of others, you name it.

At the end of the day all you want to do is sink into the couch and scroll mindlessly only to wake from the senseless trance even more drained.

After days, weeks, months of constant, it builds up.
No matter how much patience you have you become quick to anger.
No matter if you are sleeping through the night you feel sluggish.
No matter the size of your servants heart, your selfishness breaks through.
No matter if you desire to be present and intentional with your children, your actions prove otherwise.

On your phone for 30 minutes while you sit on the toilet isn't doing any good.
TikTok or Netflix before bed won't cut it either.

What's needed is Intentional Restoration.

- Chad Vrla
Founder of TheIntentionalFather.com

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