Tips for the supermom:

Ten alternatives for the supermom who wants to be just "mom":
1. Recognize that few of us can have it all. Every choice means saying no to something else.
2. Write time on your calendar for yourself. If you must, start with fifteen minutes, then build up to an hour, an afternoon, a day, etc.
3. Speak up. Many times spouses and children assume that you have no complaints about the inequitable workload or you would have said something.
4. Adjust your standards of excellence. Don't encourage your family to let you do it all because their efforts won't measure up to your standards.
5. Bow out of unnecessary community work. If the committee falls apart without you, perhaps it should.
6. Remember the adage: "This too shall pass." Children grow up, jobs change, priorities change, desires change.
7. Give new meaning to the phrase window of opportunity. When a door closes, look for a window. Don't look at the time spent driving the kids to school as down time. Look at it as an opportunity to encourage your children, to discuss their plans for the day, your plans, your hope and theirs.
8. Keep life in perspective. In sorting your priorities, visualize your epitaph. It's unlikely you would choose: "She kept a clean house." "He sacrificed himself for his job."
9. Take steps to develop yourself as a whole person. Whether superhuman or not, take steps to ensure that you are healthy physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
10. Strive to be good to yourself as well as to others. Allow yourself and others to make mistakes and to learn from them.