So many parents today are feeling stressed and caught between responsibilities: work, career, relationships, elderly parents, children. What's the best way to balance needs in a family?

As parents today, we are juggling many more responsibilities in a much faster world than our parents did before us. And many of us feel inadequate to the task. Before we judge ourselves too harshly, we need to look realistically at how many full-time jobs we are asking ourselves to do.

As much as we try for perfect balance, most of us never achieve it. Most of us have to make peace with our imperfections. As one mother put it, "One week I'm a great parent, a terrible housekeeper, a mediocre worker.

The next week I'm an okay parent, a good housekeeper and a great worker. It balances out in the long run, not at the end of every day. I feel a lot more peaceful since I realized I didn't have to do it all."

Whose needs should come first in the family -- the parents' or the children's? Parents often say to us, "We feel like our three-year-old is the dictator of the family. We call her Queen Jessie."

As parents, many of us have tried to give our children more choices, more say in what ... more.

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