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Lessons From A Swim Meet

December 17, 2022 by not your average mom 2 Comments

It’s day three of a 4-day swim meet. I’m one of the chaperones for my son’s team, and we leave the hotel at 6:15 a.m. each morning for the pool. Breakfast doesn’t start early enough at the hotel for the kids to eat before they leave for the pool, so one of the other chaperones […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned Tagged With: embracing failure, learning feom, mistakes, reframing, swim meets

Parenting Mistakes Are Awesome Parenting *Opportunities*

July 11, 2017 by not your average mom 4 Comments

You know when you lose your shit on your kids and then you are instantly filled with remorse and regret and wish you could rewind and just start all over again? I had one of those moments the other morning. I didn’t really lose my shit. But I was hard on Number 3. Too hard. […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: behavior, mistakes, positive discipline, recovery from mistakes, responsibility, shame, yelling

Today’s “You’re Not The Only One Who F*cked Up Today” Moment Is Brought To You By Me

May 9, 2017 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

I fucked up last night. So I thought I’d share this with you just in case you are beating yourself up over your own fuck  up. First of all, let me remind you of this: Whether you have one kid or ten kids, whether this is your first kid or your last kid, whether you […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: BFF, fuck ups, mess up, mistakes, momfails, swim practice

20 Things You Can Do To Be a Great Parent

October 28, 2016 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Yesterday I came across this question when I was wasting time on Facebook: “I’m going to be a first-time dad in a few weeks… I’m quite nervous! Does anyone have some helpful tips on how I can be a great dad? “ About a million things immediately popped into my head. It doesn’t matter whether you […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: change, consistency, dad, exercise, father, great, hugs, mistakes, mom, mother, parent, priority, schedule

The Time I Lost It On Number 7’s Birthday

October 5, 2016 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Yesterday I wrote a post about mistakes and how I want to use those situations to teach and model for my kids how they are just opportunities for growth. And then this morning I fucked up pretty badly Ugh.  And after that whole post yesterday, I’ve spent most of the morning beating myself up! It’s […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: birthday, mistakes, Nubmer 7, should, yelling

Not mistakes. OPPORTUNITIES.

October 4, 2016 by not your average mom 2 Comments

My great grandmother was a strong, tough and opinionated woman with a thick Swedish accent. And I was completely intimidated by her. She was a good lady. She was more of a mother to my mom than her actual mother was. But she had a very hard shell, and I never felt like I was able to crack […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: bucket, fuck up, grandmother, great grandmother, mistakes, porch, spanx

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