Tag Archives: PARENTING

20 Ways to Rock at Being a Mother [8]: Choose Joy

20 Ways to Rock at Being a Mother [8]: Choose Joy

Why should you choose JOY over any other feeling? GO BACK >>> 20 WAYS TO ROCK AT BEING A MOTHER [7]: LOOK AFTER YOURSELF You can listen to me talk about this HERE >>>  “She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.” (Pr 31:25 NIV) Have you noticed? Some people are […]

20 Ways to Rock at Being a Mother [16]: Build Relational Resilience

20 Ways to Rock at Being a Mother

To work on the next Way to Rock, to build relational resilience, it’s important you have at least had some time to grapple with earlier concepts. As you get through the 20 Ways to Rock series, you will see a gradual progression of self-understanding, and development. With every new Way to Rock you become aware […]

20 Ways to Rock at Being a Mother [5]: Be Self-aware

20 Ways to Rock at Being a Mother [5] Be Self-aware

This is No. 5 in the series of Ways to Rock at Being a Mother – Be Self-aware. You can go back to No. 4 HERE >>> Rock at Being a Mother by Being Self-Aware “How do you become self-aware? And what’s that got to do with Motherhood?” Good questions! I hear you! The online dictionary […]

20 Ways to Rock at Being a Mother [11]: Being Proactive

20 Ways to Rock at Being a Mother

Ahhhh – being proactive. That is, taking the long-term view. This is something I never automatically see. Is it like that for you too? I get so caught up in the urgent things around me. You know, things like the growing laundry pile, this week’s Grade 4 spelling test, the scattering of toys in the […]

Do You Have Any Life Skill Gaps?

Do You Have Any Life Skill Gaps

HAVE YOU EVER SUDDENLY realized you don’t know something that everyone else seems to know? There can be life skill gaps in your knowledge, and it can be dang uncomfortable! Life skills, almost always, are passed onto us by our parents. It’s part of the process of growing up. Listen to Jenny talk about life […]

Great Questions to Ask Your Kids

Great Questions to Ask Your Kids

Whatcha doin’? My daughter’s little voice piped up whenever she found herself with a willing listener. It was the well-used question she offered as she made conversation with friends, young and old. It usually got people going with a story about their latest activities. She would then launch forth into her own explanation of how […]

A Fresh Perspective on a Routine Assignment

What? I could hardly believe what I was reading! My head was screwed up with this fresh perspective. My rock idol was quoted saying: “Parenting is the most important job anyone can do.” I was seven months pregnant with my first baby and reading an interview with 1970s singer/songwriter Larry Norman. I had never heard […]

Top Ten Life-Changing Motherhood Talks

Top Ten Life-Changing Motherhood Talks

Check out these life-changing motherhood talks! As I’ve thought about motherhood lately I’ve realized it’s an Art. In other words, it’s a creative, often-changing, going-out-on-a-limb type of experience. Do you follow?! As with any artistic exercise, some people are naturally talented. And for others, it’s a hard-won ability. Therefore, it brings tears, frustration and disappointment some […]

Stuck? 9 Tools to become a Problem-Solving Mother

Stuck in a rut? No idea where to turn next to fix something or someone? Feel as though you are going around in circles, and not sure how to get out of the cycle? Every mother faces uncertain days, and it’s the reason you eventually become an excellent problem-solving mother. The truth is, your problem-solving […]

A Mother’s Gift: The Powerful Aspects of NURTURE

A Mother’s Gift: The Powerful Aspects of NURTURE

Usually, we understand that NURTURE is to do with nourishment and nutrition. It’s the intuitive response of every mother to provide food.*  But NURTURE is also wrapped up with emotional qualities. And generally, it’s mothers who ensure these powerful aspects of NURTURE will happen in a family. The powerful aspects of nurture are an amazing […]