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Not So Fast: Slow-Down Solutions for Frenzied Families is unavailable, but you can change that!

We're raising our kids in a high-speed, high-pressured, 24/7 world. Pushing children to get ahead, we cram everything possible into our days to maximize their chance at success. We're overloaded, overextended, overcommitted, and over-caffeinated. And we're paying a price: Our relationships are anemic; our health, in jeopardy. Half-awake and half-hearted, we can't sustain this pace. But how can we...

Like the seminarian stepping over the victim en route to give a talk about the Good Samaritan, do I step over the needs of my children—figuratively or even literally—in order to get out the door (Hurry!) to a meeting or lesson, or even … a church event? When I’m under the gun, it doesn’t take much for me to sound irritable and aggravated with the children. It’s hard to listen carefully and give them my full attention. In short, I’m not myself—nor am I the person I want to be—when I’m regularly overbooked