Make a Connection with Your Children This Summer

Make a Connection with Your Children This Summer

Make a Connection with Your Children This Summer Summer is coming and you’re making all the arrangements for summer camps and where your children will spend the majority of their time while you work. This is the time to fit THEM into YOUR schedule. Let’s face it, we find time to have our nails and eyebrows done. We find time for grocery shopping, meeting with our accountants, and paying our bills. We even schedule meetings with people when it comes…

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The Struggle is Real

The Struggle is Real

The Struggle is Real Are you in the struggle with your children and think it will never end? Are they driving you crazy? Remind yourself it will end and then tell yourself you’re doing a great job. You may not believe that right now, but the struggle will be over in a blink of an eye. The Struggle Goes Fast While going through the struggle of nursing at home or at work, the continual crying at bedtime, and the terrible…

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Talking About Graduation with All the Moms & Dads

Talking About Graduation with All the Moms & Dads

Talking About Graduation with All the Moms & Dads It’s that time of year for GRADUATIONS!! Hats off to all the hardworking moms and dads out there. You’ve survived all those drop offs and pick ups. You’ve survived all the mood shifts, late and confusing homework, and all the fights about curfew. If you’re like me, congratulations to all the college graduates and their hard working moms and dads. You’ve survived the long distance relationship through snap chat and Face…

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Get Comfortable in the Mess of Motherhood; It Won’t Last Forever

Get Comfortable in the Mess of Motherhood; It Won’t Last Forever

Get Comfortable in the Mess of Motherhood It Won’t Last Forever   Being a mother today isn’t what you see on the oldie shows where the mom is doing everything to perfection. We cry. We cry on the floor and we wonder what we got ourselves into. We feel like we can’t do this. We say to ourselves, “How am I going to do this?” We think too hard, we judge ourselves too hard and we feel like we’re spiraling…

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Motherhood is Making Me Crazy!

Motherhood is Making Me Crazy!

Motherhood is Making Me Crazy! All mothers can relate to the word crazy. It doesn’t matter the level of our income, what kind of car we drive, or what our ethnicity; our children can make us feel like we’re going crazy! It is funny how different our exteriors are, yet our interiors are so alike. All children are not perfect. They are little bundles of joy one moment, and terrors the next. All moms have different situations with their little…

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If You’re a Parent of an Elementary School Child, Don’t Do This

If You’re a Parent of an Elementary School Child, Don’t Do This

If You’re a Parent of an Elementary School Child, Don’t Do This  Parents today are much different from the parent of the 70’s and 80’s. The parental units of today must each hold down a full time job or two part time jobs. It was easier to be a stay at home mom and there were rules to follow. Yet, there’s one thing very noticeable in our world at elementary schools today and that is the lack of manners and…

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When Your Heart Speaks to You, Listen

When Your Heart Speaks to You, Listen

When Your Heart Speaks to You, Listen       As we go about our days, our heart is speaking to us all the time, but because we’re so busy, we don’t hear a word it says. However, if you practice taking a five minute break three times a day to listen, you’ll be amazed. I know we’re all very busy with our children and their activities not to mention working to pay the bills. Be that as it may, as soon…

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Give Yourself Permission

Give Yourself Permission

Give Yourself Permission As a mom, we wake up to noise and chaos. We are woken up by little voices, screaming cries, or the never ending statement of “Give it back to me!” Our blood pressure is immediately rising, our palms are clenching the covers, and our body just wants to hide under the blankets a few minutes longer. What’s a mom to do? Remember, you are the one in charge of these creatures. Give yourself permission to be in…

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Worry of the Empty Nester

Worry of the Empty Nester

Worry of the Empty Nester On the west coast on a Saturday morning, I wake up and pour my cup of coffee. As I stretch and breathe, I wonder what the weather is like on the east coast. That happens to be where my daughters attend college, one in grad school and the other a senior graduating in May. My wonder sometimes turns to worry. After four years as an empty nester, worry is always in the back of my…

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Parents Make Mistakes; Don’t Make This One

Parents Make Mistakes; Don’t Make This One

 Parents Make Mistakes; Don’t Make This One     Parents are far from perfect although we try very hard. We all struggle with outside situations like being laid off and becoming intertwined with inside family problems such as one of our children struggling in a mainstreamed classroom. Our feelings become overwhelming because our expectations are no longer what we thought. When this happens, we feel the sun setting on our dreams and we are crushed thinking that our expectations won’t…

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