The Car Pickup I’m Not Proud Of
I was sitting in the car line outside my daughter’s school when my pager went off. What happened next is something I’ve thought about for a long time.
How To Move On When You Messed Up
We just returned from a wonderful Spring Break trip with family and friends. Well it wasn’t all wonderful. Sometimes it was downright exhausting and painful. Put three strong-willed teenage sibling girls together for a week, lots of walking, long car rides, and cramped sleeping arrangements and you set the stage for some not so great …
How Do You Treat Yourself When You Messed Up?
Let’s say you did something you really regret. Maybe you yelled at your kids in that monster mom voice and saw fear in their eyes. Maybe you criticized your spouse or a friend and wish you could take the words back. Maybe you stomped on someone’s dream. Maybe you judged unfavorably or gossiped about someone. …
Mom Mistake Number Eleven that Diminishes Joy and Makes Life Harder (The Final Mistake)
Mistake #11: Thinking that your child is an extension of you (and Not Taking Up Your Rightful Space) This is the final parenting mistake I’m going to discuss in this series that I started a few weeks ago. There are many others, but I think this is a good place to stop and this particular …
Mom Mistake Number Ten That Diminishes Joy In Parenting And Makes Life Harder
Mistake #10: Spending Too Much Time In Guilt Most of us judge ourselves way too harshly. We do something that we regret and then we are ridden with guilt. We snapped or yelled too much or didn’t give enough attention to our child. We worked too much. We were unkind or unfair. We criticized or …
Mom Mistake Number Nine That Diminishes Joy in Parenting and Makes Life Harder
Mistake #9: Putting Too Much Pressure On Your Role You could be the absolute best mom. You could do all the right things. You could give your kids every advantage in life. But guess what?! They may still end up unhappy. They may not get into the school or job that they want. They may …
Mom Mistake Number Eight That Diminishes Joy in Parenting and Makes Life Harder
Mistake #8: Listening to others more than to your own wisdom When it comes to parenting, everyone has lots of opinions on just about everything. Advice starts coming even before you have the baby. There are ideas about when you should get pregnant. What you should or shouldn’t eat while pregnant. How active you should …
Mom Mistake Number Seven That Diminishes Our Joy in Parenting
Mistake #7: Indulging in Compare and Despair How many times have you compared yourself or your life as a mom to someone else’s and found that you and your life come up short? Monthly? Daily? Multiple times a day? Their body bounced back from pregnancy so much faster than mine. Their kids are easier. Their …
Parenting Mistake Number Six That Makes Our Life Harder
Mistake #6: Living by a To-Do List rather than a Results List One of the most common words that most moms (myself included) use to describe their days and weeks is “busy”. I’m SO busy. There’s too much to do and not enough hours in a day. I have a list a mile long. It’s …
Parenting Mistake Number 5
Mistake #5: Overconsuming There’s a 90-9-1 rule of participation in social media. 90% of users are lurkers – they read or observe, but don’t contribute. 9% of users contribute from time to time. 1% of users participate a lot and account for most of the contributions. The rule describes how most users don’t participate very …