Isn’t it nicer when we don’t have to feel like we need to monitor each and every action and behavior? When you focus on connection instead of what you need to correct, you don’t have to correct so often because children will learn to do it for themselves.
The conflict that children have with parents during adolescence is the very thing that is allowing them to grow into themselves. Challenging family patterns and beliefs is the very thing that allows our children to find their values and beliefs.
Our communication is not just convoluted at times, sometimes we communicate the complete opposite of what we want.
Automatic responses permeate our life and they are important. They reserve our brain power for when we encounter something we have to consciously address and can’t respond to automatically. However, when we respond automatically in a way we don’t like or isn’t appropriate, it can be frustrating. It can even lead us to believe that our response is beyond our control, but it’s not.
Science has taught us that simply the absence of a mother can be devastating to the growth and development of any baby. The lack of the tender touch of a mother’s arms can be fatal. There are challenges for sure, but our mission is not hard. We simply must be there. We simply must love. Mothers need only to extend open arms and accepting hearts to the precious children first placed in their arms as cold and crying infants before being wrapped in the warmth of love and care, or perhaps brought to those arms through the miracle of adoption.
I recently came across a post on Facebook. I have seen many others like it–a mother behaved poorly and felt regret and then told their
My sweet girl, who is not so little anymore, This week there were two women in our community murdered, by men they were in a
Each moment we control another, we are damaging our relationship with them. Instead we should be providing, love, guidance, suggestions, teaching, opportunities–all approaches that will both encourage the relationship and develop respect whether with horses or humans.
College can be a great option, but it’s not a necessity, so don’t give your life to student loan debt as if it were.
The problem with self-esteem is that, when talking about it, it has been based far too much on variables we either can’t control or which don’t truly have any impact on who or how valuable we are.
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