When your child chooses to deliberately disobey you, it is frustrating. Emotions can rise, causing moms to respond in ways they may regret later. The scenario in our How To Control Your Emotions When Your Children Frustrates You blog is a good place to start.

Your daughter yells, “NO!”, after you calmly ask her to “please take your cereal bowl to the kitchen sink.” It is especially tough because there is emotional residue left from the evening before when you fought with your husband over finances and had to drag yourself out of bed three times to care for your sick son. This morning, your daughter refuses to get her shoes on. All you are trying to do is get everyone out the door before they are late. Then you hear, “NO!” You don’t want to respond in anger like your mom did, but things just keep building up…

At times it can be confusing to know if you should discipline your child or ignore their actions. Sometimes you wonder if it is worth the effort when you are in a hurry and late for work, people are watching, or you are just too exhausted.

As moms, we encounter disobedience issues daily. Picture this scenario: it’s time to get ready for bed. “Samantha, please go brush your teeth and get your pajamas on.” Five minutes later, Samantha is still laying in the same spot on the floor. Mom thinks, “This happens every night! I wish she’d get up and do what I say!” …

When our children are little, lying can seem cute and almost humorous at times. When you ask your two-year-old, “Did you take a chocolate chip cookie?”, she immediately shakes her head, hides the half-eaten cookie behind her back, and says with chocolate-covered lips, “No, Mommy, I didn’t.”

At this age, these little lies somehow seem funny because they’re so obvious. But when you add ten years to seemingly innocent 5-year-old lying, you’ve got a teenager skillful at lying about adolescent behaviors – not completing homework, skipping school, experimenting with drugs, and engaging in sexual relationships.

Make your home even more peaceful and loving in 2022. With the pandemic raging, our homes need to be a haven for our families. Here are a few New Years Resolution ideas to help moms be calmer and make their homelife more manageable.

We all hope for a picture-perfect Christmas. With our already overloaded, stressful schedules, our dream of providing the kind of Christmas we see on social media evaporates very quickly and our stress level elevates just at the thought of it.