Parenting Blog

In honor of Mother's Day, this week's newsletter is guaranteed to lift your spirits.  We've got Quotes about Moms, a free Teleseminar for the first five moms who register, and even a free E-Book of Inspirations.  Why?

Because you're doing the toughest, most sacred work on the planet. 

The famous psychologist D.W. Winnnicott said that children don't need perfection from their parents; all we need to do is to avoid harming them, and to offer them the “ordinary devotion"  which has always been required of parents.

What Winnicott didn't say is that there is nothing ordinary about a parent's devotion.  Devotion, as parents know, is walking the floor at 2am holding a screaming baby with an ear infection. Devotion is putting down that delicious novel to play with your kids.  Devotion is forcing yourself into the kitchen to make your kids dinner after a long day, when all you really want is to curl up on the couch and go to sleep.  Devotion is biting your tongue so often you get a piercing. Devotion is taking off your jacket on a freezing night to tuck it around a sleeping child in the back seat of the car. 

This ordinary devotion is the same intense love that has caused parents throughout human history to hurl themselves between their child and danger, from flying glass to snarling wolves to enemy soldiers. 

The pay, however, makes everything worth it.  Mothers get paid in pure love.

So this Sunday when you wake up, enjoy your day.  And remind yourself that every day is your day. 

Free Downloadable Mother's Day E-Book

Job Description of the Week:
Mother Wanted
Long term, team players needed, for challenging permanent work in an, often chaotic environment. Candidates must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and be willing to work variable hours, which will include evenings and weekends and frequent 24 hour shifts on call. Some overnight travel required, including trips to primitive camping sites on rainy weekends and endless sports tournaments in far away cities. Travel expenses not reimbursed. Extensive courier duties also required.

Must be willing to be hated, at least temporarily, until someone needs $5. Must be willing to bite tongue repeatedly. Also, must possess the physical stamina of a pack mule and be able to go from zero to 60 mph in three seconds flat in case, this time, the screams from the backyard are not someone just crying wolf.

Must be willing to face stimulating technical challenges, such as small gadget repair, mysteriously sluggish toilets and stuck zippers. Must screen phone calls, maintain calendars and coordinate production of multiple homework projects. Must have ability to plan and organize social gatherings for clients of all ages and mental outlooks.

Must be willing to be indispensable one minute, an embarrassment the next. Must handle assembly and product safety testing of a half million cheap, plastic toys, and battery operated devices. Must always hope for the best but be prepared for the worst. Must assume final, complete accountability for the quality of the end product. Responsibilities also include floor maintenance and janitorial work throughout the facility.

Commitment required: The rest of your life.
Benefits: While no health or dental insurance, no pension, no tuition reimbursement, no paid holidays and no stock options are offered; this job supplies limitless opportunities for personal growth and free hugs for life if you play your cards right.


Mothers Day Quotes:
"There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it." ~ Chinese Proverb

"It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge." ~ Phyllis Diller

"Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease." ~ Lisa Alther

"Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life." ~ Author Unknown

"A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie." ~ Tenneva Jordan

"Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see."Pope Paul VI

"To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world" -- Anonymous