Angela Mondor talks about choosing not to bring kids on trips to avoid the stress. She decided self-care meant skipping travel plans that would exhaust her rather than refresh her.
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But that'll be the first time that I've taken my kids on a trip like that because I always try to make sure that I do those things for me and I'm not inducing more stress but letting me—
Well, anybody that has kids knows that whatever you're gonna do, whether it's you're leaving the house to go to the park or you're leaving the house to go to Greece, it doesn't matter what that thing is. The minute you involve children, all things go out the window, right? So yeah, the added stress, like some people, Some people are okay with adding that extra stress on their trips, and some people are like, you know what, I just don't need that right now. And it's okay to be that, right? It's okay to say, hey, this is not for me, this isn't what I want it to be.