Sometimes as parents, no matter how often we tell ourselves that tomorrow we are going to be more prepared, more focused, more patient....we wake up and forget. We go to sleep so tired from a hard day at work, a long day with toddlers, a stressful day with finances, a failed day of health promises. We have the best intentions to get everything done so we can wake up as if we've hit a reset button. Unfortunately, good intentions can often turn into bad shame. We become upset with ourselves that we could not do more, do better and that in turn makes us irritable, short-tempered, and late. Our kids then see how we "cannot" handle things and become great students of our chaotic emotions and behaviors. Keep the cycle going, kids.
You are doing a good job, parents. Mom, you are doing your best even if you believe with everything you are that you can do better. Dad, you are doing your best even if you believe with everything you are that you can do better. You are doing a good job, parents.
Life gets infinitely sweeter with children and infinitely more debilitating. There are days when it seems equal and days when one out-weighs the other. You will get through this. Today this was your best. Tomorrow your best will be another level. Your best is not a bar that stays in one place. It moves. And thankfully! Each day we have a different level of energy, effort, ability and awareness to parent and to survive everything else. Be mindful of where that bar is. Be kind to yourself and know it will keep changing. And we are all going through it with you.
www.buzzfeed.com/h2/fbaf/aetna/stressful-parenting-moments-that-can-be-solved-through-mi?utm_term=.xmpQoRZrA#.jbWLKgxMk
You are doing a good job, parents. Mom, you are doing your best even if you believe with everything you are that you can do better. Dad, you are doing your best even if you believe with everything you are that you can do better. You are doing a good job, parents.
Life gets infinitely sweeter with children and infinitely more debilitating. There are days when it seems equal and days when one out-weighs the other. You will get through this. Today this was your best. Tomorrow your best will be another level. Your best is not a bar that stays in one place. It moves. And thankfully! Each day we have a different level of energy, effort, ability and awareness to parent and to survive everything else. Be mindful of where that bar is. Be kind to yourself and know it will keep changing. And we are all going through it with you.
www.buzzfeed.com/h2/fbaf/aetna/stressful-parenting-moments-that-can-be-solved-through-mi?utm_term=.xmpQoRZrA#.jbWLKgxMk