Mummy Mode

Andy Johns learned a lesson from whitewater rafting.

'What do I do if I fall overboard, especially into the rapids? Commonly what happens is the tendency to freak out and to fight the current. That's when they get in trouble. Instead, you go into mummy mode. You lay back, you cross your arms across your chest, you stick your feet out, and you do the opposite of fighting the current. You allow the current to take you where it's trying to take you.'

Think about the hardest parenting moments. The tantrum in the grocery store. The 3am wake-up that won't end. The refusal to leave the playground.

Your instinct: fight harder. Control more. Push through.

Mummy mode: stop fighting. Float. Wait it out.

'If you really tune in with yourself and pay attention to that current and you relax into it, you'll arrive at a destination that you were meant for.'

Sometimes the rapids just need you to survive them. Not solve them. Survive them.