“I cannot think of one minute except maybe my shower in the morning,” responded one Mom when asked how much time she spent on herself each day and not working or caring for her children or husband. The expectations of a Mom’s role are frequently all-consuming and never enough. And those expectations likely come from …
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Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Confident mothers, Loss of self as mother, Mom and discipline, Mothers, mothers with agency, Roles of mothers, self-care, Self-sacrifice of Moms, Valentine's Day
Use the smell of your morning coffee or tea to remind you to take some deep breaths to start your day. When there is global and national unrest, we all experience a nagging anxiety that just won’t seem to go away even when we are not consciously thinking about the conflicts around us. It’s important …
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Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Dealing with Anxiety, Empathy, global unrest anxiety, managing stress, parenting and stress, parenting and stress management, parenting tension, self-care, Self-compassion, Stress management
