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Two Amazing Years

June 19, 2019 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Maybe this is purely anecdotal. Or maybe it’s not. Either way, I want to share this story with you. For the first two years of school, Number 6 cried for a good 50% of every weekday morning. He didn’t want to go to school. He hated school. School wasn’t fun. It was boring. It was […]

Filed Under: Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: connection, empathy, kindness

Mommy, You Don’t Love Me As Much As You Did Yesterday.

December 18, 2018 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Last night when I walked upstairs to put Number 5, 6 and 7 into bed (they all share a room) around 8:15, I realized they hadn’t done what I’d asked them to do earlier that day. All three of them had clothes lying around on the floor, and Number 7’s dresser in particular was a […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: connecting with your kids, connection before correction, kind and firm, kindness

Help Teach Your Kids To Be Bucket Fillers

May 11, 2018 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Yesterday Number 6 came home from school with this book:   I had heard of (affiliate) How Full Is Your Bucket before, but I had never read it, and I had never read this, either. Every night when I put Number 5, 6, and 7 to bed we read a book. Number 6 was excited […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: bucket dipper, bucket dipping, bucket filler, bucket filling, have you filled a bucket today, kindness, teaching kindness

Moms, This One Is Kind Of On Us

May 6, 2018 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

We had our first swim meet with the new team this weekend, and on Saturday afternoon when everyone was done swimming, all the kids and parents went to Dave and Busters to each lunch and the kids all played games for about an hour. It has been interesting to watch Number 3 and Number 4 […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Parenting Tagged With: competition in women, kindness, mean girls, teaching your daughters to be kind

Words Of Wisdom From A Seven-Year-Old

October 10, 2017 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Today Number 6, who is seven years old and in second grade, came home from school with this piece of writing. He handed it to me and said: “Mommy, read this. I got to go to a special room to make a copy of it with my teacher because she liked it so much and […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: kind, kindness, spreading kindness

52 Things You Can Do To Effect Change In The US

October 4, 2017 by not your average mom 2 Comments

The past month has been pretty brutal for the United States. There have been multiple hurricanes.  Controversy over standing or not standing during the national anthem. The largest mass shooting in the history of the country. Name calling.  Racism. Millions of people suffering. Hundreds of deaths. What do we do? We voice our shock. We […]

Filed Under: Personal, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: charity, complaining, disaster, government, gratitide, kindness, mental ilness

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