My husband’s working late, and my toddler’s refusing to eat what I cooked for dinner. My cramps are slowly killing me, and my baby’s “probably teething.” It’s the 218th day of quarantining, and I just can’t seem to make anyone happy. The news is scary, and both girls are crying.
Where am I in each scenario? Resentful. Exhausted. Overwhelmed. Anxious.
While this might be old news to many, I just recently started to recognize the correlation between my mood, my kids’ moods, and my days in general. It’s ironic I’m just now recognizing how significantly my anxiety and negativity can affect my girls. Working in the baby and toddler sleep consulting business, we are always telling our clients to remain calm...
Even though I love them so much my heart physically aches, what if that love just isn't enough? Because I am failing in every other way.
Sometimes, they drive me to the breaking point and everythinggg they do makes me want to scream. Because I am not adequate to parent them.
Sometimes they get hot dogs and easy mac for dinner after an afternoon of sugary snacks. Because I am an inadequate parent.
Sometimes it's painful to just look at them because they're growing up so fast it brings tears to my eyes. Because I am an inadequate mother.
Sometimes I just give in and try to grant whatever the unreasonable desires are, and it's still not enough and there are still tears....
Mommies, mothers, we feel all of the feelings. All of them.
We literally feel our children’s bodies move inside of us and hear their heartbeats (thanks to the modern age) before we ever get to meet them.They hear ours, they beat together.
This is not to knock fathers or deem them unimportant, my sons will be amazing fathers one day - but we mothers, though, we sacrifice for our little beings before we’ve met them ... no rules to follow ... before we know if they’ll even look anything like us.
Sometimes, we love them before they’re a thought, when they're only just a dream. That's a powerful love.
This is not to say that those mothers who choose to be mothers...
Yesterday, my daughter’s class presented the “Letter Z” during their Wacky Wednesday Zoom lesson. Immediately she proclaimed “Mom, School is over and we won’t see our teachers and friends again.” The tears began to flow. For a while, I wasn’t sure where her tears stopped and mine began. How do I explain to my child that she’s exactly right? You see this was her last year at Montessori School of Baton Rouge (MSBR). Next year she starts Kindergarten at a new school with new friends and new teachers. MSBR has been so amazing for us, I have often wished the school lasted all the way to high school, or at least middle school. Unfortunately, my son didn’t have the...
Disclosure:: This post is sponsored by Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Health.
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Even during normal times it’s a challenge to manage how much time your kids spend playing video games and scrolling apps, but two months of home lock-down has made it even tougher.
With summer almost here, kids will be as tempted as ever to curl up with the digital device of choice and spend too many staring at screens.
The good news is there are things you as a parent can do to improve your kids’ screen habits. In fact, it’s vital that you make sure they develop healthy screen habits or they’re at greater risk for obesity, sleep and behavioral problems and...
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