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Kid Confidence Helps Moms Too!

October 29, 2008 By

This article was written by Guest Blogger Vicki Jardine of Permission To Shine.

Hey there to all the busy moms reading this. Have you ever felt like you are a pretty good mom and Slowly Withering Awaythat things are going along ok until you read an article on how to be a better parent only to then feel like a worse parent?

I have. And I look at that and think why I am like that? Why don’t I take the intended messages and apply them to becoming a better mom? Why do I get the message about what I am not doing well and instantly feel discouraged?

I think it’s because I wanted very badly to be a ‘great parent’ and I was already flat out. If I added too much more to my ‘plate’, I wouldn’t be able to keep it up and I may fail more.
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10 Ways to Rejuvenate in 10 Minutes a Day

October 27, 2008 By


This article was written by Guest Blogger Katy Lee of Adventures In Parenting.

It’s common knowledge that a mom’s job is 24/7.

But if you’re a WAHM, you’re on not just 24/7; it’s more like 48/14!

When the kids are settled, there is business to handle. Once business is taken care of for the day, the kids are back in action. In this global tech-based economy, our business is often 24/7, as much as our family demands are 24/7.

While working at home with the benefit of being with our children is undoubtedly having the best of both worlds, the joy can be robbed if we are overworked. That just defeats the whole reason for staying at home, doesn’t it?

Sure, a vacation in Hawaii would be nice! Well, a little more than nice. But I’ve found that one big vacation a year doesn’t take the stress out of the other 50 weeks.
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Motherhood Lessons #2

October 6, 2008 By

This post was written by Guest Blogger Barbara Winters, host of Journeys to Motherhood.

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When I think back to Motherhood Lessons from my childhood, I remember some of the things my mother would incorporate into her daily chores that would include me. These ‘things’ would actually transform a typically boring domestic activity into one of learning and fun…a game, if you will.

For example, the folding of laundry becomes a game of picking out all of the reds, all of the blues, all of the greens, etc… a way to get your laundry folded while teaching your child their colors. Also, when my mother washed clothes, she would help me wash some of my doll clothes. She would then hang her laundry on the ‘big girl line’ and had a lower line for me to hang my doll’s clothes, which was, of course, the ‘little girl line’. I have photographs of hanging laundry with my mother that are priceless! I look just like her “minnie me”!

Now that I have my own 2 1/2+ year old daughter, those charming memories are even more profound in my heart. Though I have done the ‘color game’ with Hailey Rose, we have yet to do the ‘laundry hanging duet’. This mama doesn’t hang laundry…just puts it in the dryer. (Maybe I should re-think my laundry rituals!)
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