Motherhood is Not For Wimps
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Have you ever heard that saying before?
If you’re a mom, you know what it means.
As my children get older, it’s not getting easier as I had always thought it would, it’s getting harder.
They are no longer crying outside the shower as I try to nip in to wash in under 30 seconds or less.
Now I am crying in the shower because they are growing up, driving around and going on their first date!
BEING A MOM DOESN’T COME WITH A MANUAL!
Which is rather unfortunate, but there are definitely some rules of thumb that help a lot. 
Most things we do already know, but it takes some support and aha moments to keep us on track, along with all the other mom’s going the through the same things.
Some things we don’t know, it comes with experience or a strong network of family or friends that not everyone these days has.
It is our aim to provide resources, support and community here.
If we can help make it easier for you, to help you enjoy your family, to help your kids thrive and your business grow… with a smile on your face and a calm and happy feeling in your heart, then we will have done our job :0)
NOBODY SAID IT WOULD BE EASY…
Motherhood is a journey, one we take at times with hesitant steps, at other times running full out.
Nope… being mom isn’t easy.
It can take us to our highest highs and down to the lowest of lows… sometimes within minutes.
It can get on our last nerve… and then some. But one thing it never is… it’s never boring…
TAKE A BOW…
In honour of all the hard working mom’s and dad’s out there who give their kids a step up every day.
And all the joyful and beautiful children, who make being a parent… so much more.
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I like the pictures you included. Can’t wait to read about the booty camp…
i like the thought of this entry. it touches me. after being so angryh with my daughter last night — this post seem to speak directly to me that i can do well in my mommying my kid even if she is growing up.
thanks for sharing.
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Perhaps someone needs to write a manual?! I guess there are lots of (conflicting) ideas, and each person and child are different but there must be some common themes. Not having recently frequented the Mommy section of a bookstore though I could be wrong and there may be hundreds of “manuals”!
Hi Joel! There are tons of parenting books, I don’t know if anyone has ever written a manual though – it would be a great idea. Basically I find that it is in the differences and unique being of every child that the potential for parenting greatness or failure comes in – and that’s the part that there can be no manual for since every child is unique.
On the angle of a manual for being a mom, it is similar. Every mom has a different experience, different background and different feelings in the depths of our soul about being a mom – and they can change from minute to minute! So it would be hard – but you are right, there are common themes. I do think that is one strength of the internet these days – connections so that we can see that sometimes we think we are alone but it turns out that there are many others with the exact same feelings and challenges. It somehow helps :0)
Generally, if God was to send us an indepth manual or roadmap with every child, it would be a big help :0)
Hi Jan and Joel
Not strictly a mother’s manual, but definitely at the top of my recommendations is one of those yellow ‘Dummies’ books (you know the ‘Windows for Dummies’, ‘iPhone for Dummies’ things). But this one is called Parenting for Dummies, by Sandra Hardin Gookin. Gotta love the title. (Now in a second edition I think.)
Check it out at Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Parenting-Dummies-Sandra-Hardin-Gookin/dp/0764554182
There’s a UK edition, but I don’t know this book – try to get Sandra Gookin’s version if you can.
I emailed her when the book initially came out because it seemed to me about so much more than parenting. (OK, I know, ‘parenting’ is enough, right?) For example, she writes ‘catch them doing something right’. I love that.
And so I now recommend this to all the managers I know who are struggling with motivating their people. They love it.
Great blog Jan. See you round the Forums.
Take care
Steven
Thanks Steven, gotta love those dummy books! They are usually quite thorough although I haven’t seen this one in particular. I used to have a boss who was always very generous in compliments and praise, it definitely made me want do my best.