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How to Create Boundaries for your Children

By Mark W. Merrill Can you imagine a basketball, football, soccer, volleyball, or baseball game without boundaries? It would be pure chaos, wouldn’t it? But it would probably…By Mark W. Merrill Can you imagine a basketball, football, soccer, volleyball, or baseball game without boundaries? It would be pure chaos, wouldn’t it? But it would probably… read more

7 Simple Ways to Be a Great Mom

Posted on October 9, 2012 by iMOM

If we could raise our hands in secret, we would probably all confess that there are days when we wonder if we’re cut out for motherhood. So says iSpecialist Kathy Peel. Kathy says she remembers what’s it’s like to have to park an overflowing grocery cart and take a three-year-old out to the car for a moment of discipline. She knows what it’s like to have the school principal call to tell her that her second grader tackled and pinned down a classmate.

In this week’s Learn A Latte, Kathy wants moms to remind themselves that every mom has bad days, there is no such thing as a perfect mom, and that you can shine as a mom with these 7 Simple Ways to Be a Great Mom.

Be Available

Be Lavish with Love and Forgiveness

Be Generous with Praise

Be Fair

Be Fun

Be Authentic

Be Willing to Ask for Help

End your day: Talking with your child

What’s something fun we can do this weekend?

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http://www.facebook.com/emily.brady.davenport Emily Brady Davenport

I, as any good mom does, try to do all these things for my children. However, I find that when I am generous with forgiveness, my boys tend to take advantage of this. Do you have any helpers with this? I can’t STAND being “the mean mom” but sometimes that’s all that will get through. Ideas? Helpers??