An expert on caring for both children and aging parents.
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DeLores Pressley, Motivational Speaker and Personal Power...
1. Review your children’s schedule. Are there activities that they can do independently without your supervision? Have you scheduled every moment of your child’s day or have you allowed for free time?
2. Ask yourself, “Is this something my child at their age should know how to do on their own?”. A friend and mother had a son whose car broke down. She was lamenting how he couldn’t get around now. To which I replied, “He lives in a major city. Why not take a bus?” She answered, “He doesn’t know how”. He was 25 at the time.
3. Schedule time for yourself. Even if its only half-hour. Write it in your schedule book or add it to your smart phone. You need time to relax and recuperate to be at your best as parent. Being tired only makes you more anxious and stressed and more apt to hover unnecessarily.
August 3, 2010
Today’s Take Away: 3 Tips to Keep from Overparenting
This is something of a cailssc illustration of the difference between our view of justice and God’s. Lack of memory does not justify past deeds the formula we use in Confession is for these and all my other sins which I cannot now remember, I beg pardon etc ., there has to be a line drawn between objective evil deeds and moral guilt, but surely this applies at the time of the deed, not the state of one’s current memory.I would have to judge guilty . God would probably take a different line, but on the grounds of mercy rather than justice, based on a state of grace at the point of death.I am happy to be told I am talking rubbish.