So I haven’t yelled for a whole week. Not once. I came close a couple times, but I never yelled. Not at my kids. Not even at my husband. And I feel great. GREAT! I’m not claiming to be mother or wife of the year. Not yelling hasn’t magically caused all of my other shortcomings […]
Archives for July 2014
May they be blessed.
For those of you who are waiting to make it through the stage where your kid doesn’t sleep through the night, or the playing-in-the-toilet phase, or the potty training phase, or the saying-no-to-everything-you-ask-her-to-do phase, I have a little newsflash for you. It doesn’t get easier. In fact, it gets harder. Yes, it’s exhausting to get […]
Just say YES.
Since I have made the commitment to stop yelling, something interesting has happened. I have become much more mindful of how I speak to the kids. And consequently, I experienced another revelation… There are two words I overuse with the kids: No and later. Those two words pretty much automatically fly out of my mouth before the […]
Ten words I never thought I’d say to my daughter.
I’ve said a lot of things I never dreamed I would say since becoming a parent. You know, like We do not smell each other’s butts. and Why is there a tampon in the Christmas tree? and Is that poop on the refrigerator? But yesterday I said something that I never in a million years imagined […]
P.S. Bring me dinner.
My friend’s daughter taped this note to her bedroom door today. She is seven. Going on seventeen, apparently. You know, this not yelling thing would be much easier if all of my kids would make these signs and put them on their doors. Either that, or, wait… I’ve got a better idea. I’ll make […]
What will your review say?
So two days ago I decided to stop yelling at my kids. Then yesterday I spent some time thinking about what it was that was really causing me to yell. Now I promise this won’t turn into a stop yelling at your kids blog. But I’ve been doing a lot of thinking over the past two days, and […]