Your kids want a relationship with you. You matter to them. Listen in to hear what they don’t want and why they struggle to engage with parents.
Tag: friends
When it comes to goals and challenges, there are two types of people in this world — those who reach out to friends and family for help and those who feel they must push through the process alone.
Keeping score about who has done a better job at maintaining the friendship wastes your time and energy. Friendship isn’t a contest and keeping score is pointless.
Comparison leads to despair—so if all we do is compare ourselves to others–we will always lose. Surround yourself with a tribe of friends with the intent to lift yourself up, not compare and tear yourself down.
By Erin Trier – What does a mom really want? Diamonds? Chocolate? Babies? What really matters to her?
This experience was a beautiful reminder for me of what truly matters in life. Family. Friends. God. When we prioritize what matters most, everything else just seems to fall by the wayside.
This is one of those memories of motherhood that I can look back on now and chuckle about. In the moment? Not so much. The daily trenches of motherhood are hard. Really really hard.
We all feel down from time to time. At times like these, it’s essential to know that you are not alone. You don’t have to carry your burden all by yourself.
While there is this noble idea floating around that “good moms” don’t complain about how hard parenting can be, it couldn’t be further from the truth. Holding in all those negative feelings only makes problems worse. It’s downright unhealthy.