Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Parent Generated Ideas for Self Care

Social

Schedule time with friends, and time with spouse

Join a book club

Date night

Volunteer

Help someone

Physical

Sleep/take turns with spouse

Exercise

Go to the dentist

Get family to help with child care so you can focus on yourself

Don’t put yourself at the bottom of the list-if you don’t take care of yourself now one else will

Wear something nice to bed

Napping counts as self care

Go swimming

Mental

Need to be yourself, not always mom or dad

Associate with happy people

Read

Cooking

Crochet/knit

Think about good things

Practical Goals

Meet the needs of the household, but only worry about the bare minimum

Take care of personal hygiene

Cook healthy food

Spiritual

Church, synagogue, nature

 

 

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