i would absolutely love to post something positive and encouraging, but to be quite honest, it's been a frustrating and discouraging few days. i'm struggling with my parenting. i'm amazed at how quickly my temper flares up with my daughter. i love her so much, but i feel like the last week or so has been nothing but frustration for both of us. i know this is normal. in a way, it helps to know that... and in a way, it does no good at all because i know that the way i treat my daughter in my anger is unacceptable and needs to be changed. if anyone could offer any discipline advice/techniques for a feisty 3-year-old, i could really use some creative ideas.
anyway... sorry for the discouraging note today. well, no i'm not. this is me. you get the good and the bad. :)
today i'm thankful for grace... and desire to show it as much as i receive it. praise God for 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc. chances...
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i understand EXACTLY what you're talking about! i wouldn't consider javen to be fiesty but i often find myself losing my temper and reacting in ways i don't exactly feel proud of. and that frustrates me because i can definitely remember many many times when my mom did that with my brother and i as kids. i know how her temper made me feel, and i hate that i seem to have fallen into the same pattern now that i'm a mom. and i'm not saying my mom was a bad mom or anything...because that's not so. i wish there was a magical way to just change how i react...but so often i do it without even thinking and then i'm like "great, i'm yelling at my kid and being impatient again." makes me feel so bad! i wish i had something more helpful to say other than just the fact that i think i'm wearing the same shoes as you and i feel the same way about it!
RnRM, sometimes it just helps to know we're all alike.
These are the times - and there will likely be many more - when you offer up the moldy bread and stinky fish of your parenting to God, and let HIM do the miracle with it. It obviously worked for me; just look at my kids!
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