Self-care takes various forms and is essential for well-being. While activities like bubble baths, mani-pedis, or naps are often considered self-care necessities; It’s equally important to recognize the value of dealing with uncomfortable feelings and setting boundaries. Prioritizing everyone else’s needs, may lead to mom burnout. However, understanding that preventing burnout is crucial in self-care; […]
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Shame is a powerful emotion that often lurks in the shadows, affecting our daily lives in ways we might not even realize. It’s something we’ve all experienced, especially as parents, when we feel like we’re falling short of society’s idealized standards of parenting. But here’s the thing, parenting without shame is possible, and it all
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You know, life can be pretty tricky sometimes, and we all have our own ways of seeing and interpreting situations. So, let’s talk about a situation that might sound familiar to some moms out there. Okay, picture this: Dad and his preteen daughter are having a heated argument. It happens, right? It’s a fact, just one
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When we attempt to modify a child’s behavior, we may see some initial improvement, but frequently, they revert to their previous habits. This can be exasperating and give us the sense that our efforts aren’t yielding results. It’s akin to instructing someone in a game, only for them to continually forget the rules, which can
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There’s a lot of talk about how our mothers may have caused us some damage, but let’s not jump to conclusions too quickly. Parenting is incredibly tough, and we all know it takes a village to raise a child. Yet, somehow, there’s this unspoken expectation that mothers should magically raise perfectly well-adjusted kids. It’s like
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I grew up in a family where people got pretty upset a lot, and I really didn’t want to be an angry mom when I had my own kids. But the more I tried to avoid anger, the angrier I seemed to get. Back then, (even now) where I grew up, it was is kind of
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Growing up in the house with yelling, there was a lot yelling. When I became a mom, my primary aim was how discipline without yelling when it came to raising my own children. I didn’t want to subject them to the same environment I experienced. Then I started yelling at my kids. Sometimes I felt like
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Struggles of Parenting | How To Discipline Without Yelling It’s really hard sometimes when our daughters act in ways that we don’t quite understand, isn’t it? But there’s something important we need to remember: their brains are still growing and learning, so they can’t always control their feelings or reactions like we can or can
Do you ever take a moment to think back to when you were a preteen? You know, around the same age as your daughter? It can be quite the trip down memory lane. Remember how things were back then? It could be a little confusing and scary, couldn’t it? Confusion from all those changes happening to your body,
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I struggled A LOT learning to yell less at my daughter. Looking back, I realize it was because I felt ashamed. I thought there was something wrong with me because I knew other moms who seemed to handle things without yelling. I tried to figure it out on my own, reading parenting books and watching videos
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