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This is #7 in our series on Nurturing Yourself while Raising Your Child.
"Dr. Laura, I'm great with my kids on vacation. But most of the time, I'm just so stressed out, my default is yelling!" -- Camille
As every parent learns, you can't be a good mom or dad when you're stressed out, no matter how positive your intentions.
It's true that modern life creates stress, but it's also true that what
stresses out one person may just roll off the back of another. Each of
us has a responsibility as a parent to manage our own stress. After
all, do you want your kids to have the best of you -- or what's left of
you? READ POST
"The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work." - Pamela Druckerman
“An internet poll by the Paris-based Union of
Families in Europe shows that 65% of children in France think la
fessée - French for a smack on the bottom - is a normal part of their
upbringing...More than 95% of the 2,000
grandparents, parents, and children polled said they had been spanked at
some point in their lives. Punishing a child with a fessée does not
seem to be a generation thing. A nationwide poll carried out nearly 10
years ago revealed that more than 85% of French parents spanked their
children, compared with 87 % in the new survey."- Emile Boyer King
writing in The Guardian Newspaper
Did you see the Wall Street Journal article Why French Parents Are Superior?
It's by Pamela Druckerman, promoting her new book. The WSJ loves to
criticize American parents, as they did last year when they told us that
Tiger Mothers raise more successful kids. (If you're still wondering
whether that's true, here's an article on What We Can Learn from Amy Chua). READ POST
This is Part 6 in our series on Nurturing Yourself while Raising Your Child
“Don’t
look at it as exercise — instead, play games and have a ton of fun! The
main thing is just to get outside every day and do something you think
is fun. You can play sports like soccer, basketball, or
badminton. You can play games like freeze tag or ride a bike or do
running races with your friends or family. You can go on hikes with your
family or go swimming or paddling. Do lots of different things, and
again, focus on having fun, and doing it often.” – Leo Babauta
You're a parent, so you don’t have time to exercise, right? I can relate. But moving our bodies is a basic part of self-care. We can't talk about nurturing ourselves without figuring out a way to get physical. READ POST
This is Part 5 in our series on Nurturing Yourself while Raising Your Child.
“There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a
quickening that is translated through you into action and because there
is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you
block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost.” --
Martha Graham
Raising a child takes so much out of us that we often sacrifice most
everything else that's important to us. But if we don't stay connected
to what keeps us energized, we run dry. READ POST
This is Part 4 in our series on Nurturing Yourself while Raising Your Child.
"The only way to help our child is to do the work
ourselves. Our child needs a guide through the tsunami." – Leslie
Potter, Purejoy Parenting
Life has a way of doling out lessons that we didn't ask for, but that help
us develop more wholeness. When we resist those lessons, they
land in our lap again in exaggerated form, until we finally tackle them. READ POST
This is Part 3 in our series on Nurturing Yourself while Raising Your Child.
"What
I start to feel is not just anger appropriate to the situation, but old
feelings I carry from the past. And those feelings have nothing to do
with my child or the situation. They have come up for me to take a look
at them. They are part of me. But they don't belong in my
relationship with my child. They have to do with me and the person who
raised me." -- Laura Davis & Janis Keyser READ POST
So many parents have told me they wish they could just pick up the phone and call me. So I'm experimenting with a weekly chat, sort of "office hours" when you know I'll be in. Make yourself a cup of tea, pick up the phone, and let's chat. You can ask me a question, listen to me talk with other moms, or just chat about child development. Next Chat: TODAY! Thursday January 26 at 2pm ET/1pmCT/ Noon MT/11amPT READ POST






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