Parenting: The Sacred Act We're Failing to Support

"How do you do it all?" It's the question every working parent gets asked, and it's really a white flag—a quiet cry for help from parents drowning under impossible expectations. In this deeply personal episode, Nabeela unpacks the alarming findings from the US Surgeon General's "Parents Under Pressure" report and shares her own journey through two decades of parenting across different financial circumstances.

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🎯 Key Insights:

• 41% of parents say they can't function most days (vs. 20% of other adults)

• 48% of parents report completely overwhelming stress (vs. 26% of other adults)

• Parental burnout vs. work burnout: unique features and consequences

• Why parental burnout harms both parent and child, unlike work burnout

• Nabeela's personal story: parenting in her 20s vs. late 30s

• The financial reality: $80K annually just for support systems

• Why "the village has been burnt down" and we need to rebuild it

• Islamic perspective: parenting as sacred act and form of worship

• Khalil Gibran's wisdom: "Your children are not your children"

Additional Resources

• US Surgeon General's "Parents Under Pressure" Report

• Parental Burnout Assessment tools and research

• Upcoming Substack Live with Dr. Samaiya Mushtaq (Sept 30, 12 PM)

• Khalil Gibran's "On Children" poem

⏰ Timestamps:

0:00 - The white flag question: "How do you do it all?"

1:25 - The Myth of doing it all?

3:53- What makes parental burnout different from work burnout

6:45 - Parenting is a spectrum of struggle

9:53 - Why do this parenting thing at all

11:43 - Lets start asking tougher more profound questions

13: 28- Khalil Gibran's wisdom on children as trust, not possession

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parenting burnout, working parents, parental stress, US surgeon general report, parents under pressure, work life balance, parenting struggles, sacred parenting, islamic parenting, khalil gibran, nabeela elsayed, reimagine success, modern parenting, parental support, family stress

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