“we can learn to trust our maternal selves and to have faith in the innate goodness and purity of our children - even when we feel overwhelmed and the kids are pushing all our buttons. we can support one another....we can be understanding of each other and easier on ourselves.” FeelsChildrenSelfKidsUnderstandingSupportEasierGoodnessOur ChildrenPurityPushingHave FaithButtonsOverwhelmedInnateInnate Goodness Author:Katrina Kenison
“Life finds its balance. Children grow up. Second chances come along. In the meantime, I could choose to savor this moment. What good would it do to allow annoyance to interfere with gratitude?” ChildrenMomentsGrowsChanceGrowing UpBalanceGratitudeInterfereSecond ChanceAnnoyance Author:Katrina Kenison
“I know I can't make time slow down, can't hold our life as it is in a freeze frame or slow my children's inexorable journeys into adulthood and lives of their own. But I can celebrate those journeys by bearing witness to them, by paying attention, and, perhaps most of all, by carrying on with my own growth and becoming. Now it dawns on me that the only way I can figure out what I'm meant to be doing is to try to understand who I'm meant to be...I will not waste this life, not one hour, not one minute. I will not take for granted the blessing of our being here...I will give thanks.” KnowsWayGivingTryingChildrenI CanGrowthHoursMy OwnAttentionOur LivesJourneyMinutesFiguresBecomingBlessingWasteCelebrateThanksWitnessGrantedThis LifePay AttentionMy ChildrenDawnMeant To BeAdulthoodSlow DownFreezeOne HourOne MinuteMaking TimeInexorableCarrying OnBearing Witness Author:Katrina Kenison
“One of the greatest challenges I've faced as a mother-especially in these anxious, winner-takes-all times-is the need to resist the urge to accept someone else's definition of success and to try to figure out, instead, what really is best for my own children, what unique combination of structure and freedom, nurturing and challenge, education and exploration, each of them needs in order to grow and bloom.” NeedsTryingChildrenMotherOrderGrowsChallengesMy OwnAcceptingFiguresUniqueStructureDefinitionsAll TimeWinnerCombinationUrgesExplorationAnxiousNurturingDefinition Of Success Author:Katrina Kenison
“We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.” WorldFirstsChildrenViewsConsciousWindowOur Children Author:Katrina Kenison
“I can only bring peace to my children when I possess it myself.” ChildrenI CanMy Children Author:Katrina Kenison
