A Chat With Myself As a New Mother
I hope you understand that you’re doing the best you can right now. You really are. But all of the tears, the worrying, the agonizing, the self-doubt? Useless.
I hope you understand that you’re doing the best you can right now. You really are. But all of the tears, the worrying, the agonizing, the self-doubt? Useless.
Instead of overscheduling, having more free time built into our summer days makes all the difference.
Do you tell parents if you know their kid is involved in destructive behavior? I happen to think it takes a village, even if it makes me uncomfortable at times.
The lasts are hard for me to deal with because when they are happening we don’t know that they are the last. It’s in looking back the event has any importance.
What about redshirting from the other side of the equation, when these boys are getting ready to graduate and move on to college. Six, eight, ten years later are the parents still happy with their decision?
I like to work smart and sometimes we need some techniques to help us learn, or just remember so we can look smarter than our fifth grader. Here’s a list of the mnemonics that I think every parent should know.
Mornings and bedtimes with the kids easier when they use a chart so I can give fewer reminders.
There are valuable lessons to be learned in all of our relationships, romantic and otherwise. And like so many other things that I was so sure about, I changed my mind. Here are the reasons I let my children “date.”
I know that many kids these days struggle from the alphabet soup of disorders. Why aren’t we talking about it more openly?
The reason some parents laughed about the dad who shot his daughter’s laptop is because we all know that parenting teens makes the most sane of us act nuts.
Turns out parenting teens is a lot like parenting toddlers, and you’ve already done that. Let us show you the similarities.
I gave terrible parenting advice to my coworker one time. Oh, and did I mention this was years ago, long before I had any children of my own?
How do make the leap from two kids to three? Is it a leap of logic or faith or both?
We all struggle with different areas of motherhood. There is no such thing as a perfect mother. We all have different strengths. We all have our weaknesses.
I’m trying to develop friendships with other families now so our kids will have a network for support later.
Last year was a tough for me on many levels. I lost my joy. This upcoming year I am determined to get it back and make my family happier in the process.
Make a name acrostic using your kids’ best character traits to encourage them.
We want our children to have a happy Christmas and to give them what they want, but how do we help our children appreciate how blessed they are?
I think television watching becomes a habit. I don’t want my children to develop that habit any more than I want them to start smoking or drinking.
I have high expectations of you. I have no doubt that you will live up to them all, but in the wake of recent news events I feel like I have to verbalize them.