By Grace Children with Generalized Anxiety Disorder are nervous. They are concerned about everything. Trying to figure out what to wear in the morning can send them into a fit of tears. Difficulty with an art project might end with screaming and running into another room. Because of this, they are very hard on themselves…
Safe Places Sometimes parenting makes me want to throw a fit. Day in and day out of watching my toddlers dissolve into hysterics over…well…anything, makes me want to lie down and do the same. But motherhood doesn’t allow for much of that does it? We wipe bottoms and we wipe tears. We dole out consequences…
Desiree Taylor It seems like yesterday this picture was taken. These boys are now fifteen and twenty years old. I used to hate it when the older moms would say, “It goes by so fast.” I have to confess I didn’t believe that then when every day seemed to last forever. I have found this…
Beth Biggers I hear it preached in churches. The message is there on the regular be it subtle or overt: Self esteem = Bad. Self flagellation = Good. Now, maybe I am some kind of rare exception (although I doubt it,) but my struggle is not with believing that I am not as great as…
Originally posted on Barren to Beautiful:
I was terrified of getting pregnant too soon. I heard horror stories of honeymoon babies. And I made sure we would not let that happen. We needed a few years to build our relationship. To grow as a couple. Just. As. A. Couple. Plus, I wanted my body to…
Measuring Your Child’s Value By Beth Demme Early in our children’s elementary school experience I learned to dread the weekly folder. Very early. Probably around week two of kindergarten. My son has always been … verbal. Despite living without language for the first year of his life (he lived in a Russian orphanage) and then…
by Cristina Grau The Truth about Self Worth In the public school system, and in America today, we see a strong pull towards helping our children build self-confidence. Our children are great; our children are smart, our children are going places. It doesn’t matter that a good portion of our children are failing…
Originally posted on Fearfully Made Mom:
My first year as a mother was one of the most difficult years of my life. Before I discovered I was expecting our first child, my husband and I moved over 2,000 miles away from both of our families. After coming home from the hospital I tried to jump…
Being a Mom sometimes feels like being a Drill Sargent. There are those days where I have to remind myself that I’m the parent and not their friend. They may think that my rules are one-sided, but their attitudes are lopsided. I will not argue with my six and five year old. It would be…
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