Tag Archives: RELATIONSHIPS

Be a Better Friend and Understand Your Adult Children

Be a Better Friend and Understand Your Adult Children

How do you be a better Friend, Colleague, or for that matter, Mother to your adult children? In the photo above, I’m with the other girls in my family. We are all good friends. I’ve been very intentional about this. Friendship doesn’t “just happen”! I’ve discovered the world has two types of people. And both […]

Good Times! 3 Steps to Fun with Your Kids.

Good Times! 3 Steps to Fun with Your Kids.

Jenny spoke to Scottie Haas on Hobart’s ultra106five about good times with your kids – listen HERE. Or read on… Woosh! Time seems to fly when you look back. Remember? It hardly seems any time since your little bundle of crumpled flesh arrived. Even with different coloured fluids escaping from just about every opening, you and your baby received […]

6 Steps to Get Past an Angry Goodbye

6 Steps to Get Past an Angry Goodbye

My little daughter left for primary school one morning, after a big battle over something. I can’t even remember what it was now. We parted with the problem unresolved, unhappy words on our lips and clouds over our heads. It was such an angry goodbye. I couldn’t believe what she was saying! All day I felt awful […]

20 Ways to Rock at Being a Mother [15]: Let Go of Shame

Let Go of Shame

Shame? What does it mean to  let go of shame? And what’s that got to do with being a mother? Go back to 20 Ways to Rock at Being a Mother [14]: Live Beyond Your Comfort Zone “Shame has got everything to do with being a mother!” Brené Brown says. She’s spent years researching shame and vulnerability, and has […]

20 Ways to Rock at Being Mother [20]: Every Mother Prays

20 Ways to Rock at Being Mother Every Mother Prays

Some days it’s all you can do to get through. I know. Every mother prays. That’s what I did when my son, Joseph, was born. While I didn’t write this journal entry then, I could have, because it reflects everything I thought (and prayed) that day. Go back to 20 Ways to Rock at Being a […]

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 [4]: Be a Friend

20 Ways to Rock at Being a Mother [4]: Be a Friend

While it is great to avoid isolation by finding a friend, as explained in the previous blog (Number Three in this series), that’s really only half the story. The other side is to BE a friend. LISTEN TO THE RADIO INTERVIEW To be brutally honest, no one does motherhood very well in isolation. Some people do have […]

What’s Your Relationship Preference. Chatting or Doing?

What’s Your Relationship Preference. Chatting or Doing

Two Different Relationship Types I love doing stuff, making things, and being on time. My friend prefers talking, catching up, chatting and being in a good relationship with people. Why are we so different? Over the years I’ve spent a lot of time with several great girlfriends. We have children about the same age, who’ve […]

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 […]

6 Tips to Avoiding Generational Disappointment

6 Tips to Avoiding Generational Disappointment

Do you have a sad family story? My parents lived in a constant state of unacknowledged disappointment when I was growing up. That’s because I have only sisters, no brothers. Is it like that for you too? What about if you have another version of a sad family story? Read on. Because there are ways […]