As I work with my daughter who is now having some major sleep issues, all that keeps coming back to me is the fact that you can train your mind to think whatever you wish it to think and in turn your body will react to the thought. Now this concept is what has taught me to become the positive person I am today, however, teaching the skills to an eight year old is difficult. Although I will admit my daughter is usually very good at focusing on the positive of any situation that comes into her life, she is still eight years old and a growing child. Let’s say she has a bad day at school, at home or at her Dad’s house. It is easy for her to …
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Dove Self-Esteem Weekend Oct 22 – 24 #Dovedifference
I am so excited to be a part of the first ever Dove Self-Steem Weekend which is this coming weekend October 22 through October 24, 2010. Dove is asking you to take part in this weekend and one question is “What did you wish you’d known at 13?”. As a mother of an eight year old daughter I am often found making sure that I encourage her to feel her best, be her best and know that she is awesome no matter what television or magazines say a female should look like or be. One thing I wish I had known at age 13 is that you do not have to show off your body to feel love. I was a young child who felt that I needed another person …
Mama Needs a Time Out Sometimes Too
If you have read or watched any parenting TV shows or books you will see all too often people advise the parents to take a time out for themselves if the situation is getting out of control. This makes perfect sense, a lot of the reason I dislike spanking as a consistent form of discipline is because I feel a lot of parents spank when angered and in turn are hitting their children harder than need be. I know when I was a kid I got whooped by the belt, a wooden mitten, my parents hand, whatever was closest and that is probably the norm for most of the people who are adults today. I just can’t see myself being a huge spanking kind of Mom, I am more the …
What Was I Thinking?
I thought I was being all cool when I decided no more boxed meals for this family, we are going to start eating more home cooked type of meals. I used to cook but that was before I had one child, then I cooked your basic pasta dishes and now I have three children so I just felt boxed meals of some sort were way faster than trying to cut up a bunch of veggies, meat and actually have to pay attention to what’s cooking along with three munchkins. This past week I went grocery shopping but before I did I wanted to make sure I made a grocery listed based on actual cooking recipes. Since my daughter has a full schedule on Mondays, it means my sons and I …
