47 tabs open. Voice-noting while making dinner. Replying to emails on the school run. Sound familiar?

In this episode of M's The Word, we're tackling multitasking — the habit so many of us wear as a badge of honour, but one that might be costing us more than we realise.

Plenty of us proudly call ourselves multitaskers, certain that doing several things at once makes us more productive. But the science tells a different story: while our brains can handle simple, automatic actions at the same time, they aren't built to focus on more than one attention-heavy task at once.

So why do we keep doing it? Is this really how we want to live, and more importantly, is it what we want to teach our children?

We dig into why multitasking has become the norm (especially for busy mums), what's actually happening in our brains when we juggle tasks, the pressure to do it all, and whether there's a better way.

So, which are you - a proud multitasker or a one-job-at-a-time triumph? We'd love to hear from you.

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