I took my anger and used it as a teacher. I looked at why I was getting triggered. I realized that to parent as well as I could, I needed to become calmer and less reactive, and I needed to respond to my daughter with more skillful
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“I want my kids to grow up seeing their lives through the lens of what is right and good, rather than discontentedly wondering what could be different. Opportunities to tell my kids “be grateful”
― More Than Enough: How One Family Cultivated A More Abundant Life Through A Year Of Practical Minimalism
― More Than Enough: How One Family Cultivated A More Abundant Life Through A Year Of Practical Minimalism
“There is no end to what the world has to offer, so it is critical that we learn to recognize when we have enough.”
― More Than Enough: How One Family Cultivated A More Abundant Life Through A Year Of Practical Minimalism
― More Than Enough: How One Family Cultivated A More Abundant Life Through A Year Of Practical Minimalism
“Thank you, 4:00 p.m., for being the time of day that thoroughly confuses me: post-homework and pre-dinner. I am already exhausted and fairly irritable. The children are losing their ever-loving minds, and husband is still tucked away in his sane office with all mental faculties intact and won’t answer my SOS texts to hurry and come home or their blood is on your hands. Do I make a coffee? Or pour a glass of wine? Yours, Witching-Hour Survivor.”
― For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards
― For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards
“Books should be an experience, he thought, not a trophy for having read them.”
― The Guncle
― The Guncle
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