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Three Things You May Be Doing As A Parent That Are Making Your Life More Difficult

February 13, 2017 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

If you are anything like me, and if your kids are anything like mine, you may be presented with multiple situations every day where you are feeling exasperated. You are nagging and repeating and yelling, your kids aren’t listening, you don’t know why the f*ck they won’t just do what you tell them to do, […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Mental Health, Parenting Tagged With: brush your teeth, curiosity questions, limited choices for children, nagging, positive discipline, responsibility, shoes, telling

Your job as a stay at home mom is definitely NOT to cater to your kids.

January 25, 2017 by not your average mom 3 Comments

Yesterday I wrote this post about one of the things I’ve done that has really helped my children to be more responsible. And I received this comment: I so struggle with this. With only 2 kids and a very part time baking business out of my home, I waffle between getting my kids to do […]

Filed Under: Advice, Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Mental Health, Parenting Tagged With: college, communicate, enable, foundation, gas, jobs, kitchen, lawn mower, mad and cheese, microwave, responsiblity, stay at home mom, stove, work

So apparently I’m obese.

January 9, 2017 by not your average mom 1 Comment

I had a little reality check last night. If you’ve been around here for a long time, you may remember back to when I joined a weight loss challenge/competition-type thing at the gym. I was the heaviest I’d ever been, I was done having kids, I felt like doodoo, and I was ready to make […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: acceptable, Andes, biggest loser, body fat, fat, habits, obese, percentage, plane, reality, weight loss

21 days to establish a new habit, right? WRONG!

January 1, 2017 by not your average mom 1 Comment

We’ve all seen that quote — So that’s just three weeks. Right? Wrong! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!!! That quote — the one that says it takes 21 days to form a new habit — is actually kind of a misquote. A quote that has mutated. Back in the 1950’s, a plastic surgeon named Maxwell Maltz noticed a […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: couch, dining room, dinner, eating, goal, goals, habit, habits, New Years, Resolutions, television

Comfort Zones Are For Wimps

December 30, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

I first joined the swim team when I was ten years old. I wasn’t good — at all — but I loved it. By the time I got to high school, I was fairly decent. I was All-State my sophomore, junior, and senior year. I swam at Lehigh all four years. I was one of […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Parenting, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: bathing suit, boobs, comfort zone, pool, suit, swim, swimming

The Hardest Part of Parenting

December 9, 2016 by not your average mom 2 Comments

You know what the hardest part of being a parent is? It’s not getting through those first couple months after the baby is born. It’s not colic. It’s not the teething stage. It’s not the breastfeeding. It’s not sleep training or potty training. It’s not the terrible twos or the trying threes or the fucking […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Mental Health, Parenting, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: baby, Barbie, colic, hardest part, parenting, pretending, teething, terrible, twos

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