We tend to stick closer to home as the days grow shorter & the weather turns, first cooler and then cold. Those cooler evenings in the fall are a great time to work on craft projects. These craft ideas are also a great way to bring your guilty mommy group together to work on a few new items. BHG offers…
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The Guilty Mommy Back-to-School Bible Study
Patience & Persistence Good Habits Begin Early “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.” Proverbs 22:6 NIV Patience and persistence. These are the tools parents need in order to develop good habits in their children. Unfortunately, nagging & short tempers are the tools we use most…
Back-to-School Breakfast Ideas for Busy Moms
School morning can be crazy! You are so busy making sure they have everything they need that a healthy breakfast can often be over looked. Fortunately Parents magazine & Rosie Pope offer you ideas to give your kids a healthy breakfast even when time is short! Healthy Breakfast
10 Ways to Make a Dorm Room Feel Like Home
You want your college-bound student to enjoy their independence. You also want them to feel at home in their new location. Good Housekeeping offers ways to make any dorm room feel more like home! Dorm Room
Create an Easy-to-Follow Morning Routine
School day mornings can be stressful to say the least. Time to follow my credo: Work smarter, not harder! develop a plan, a routine to help reduce stress & make mornings go more smoothly. All You has created a plan you can insure your family stays on schedule without being regimented. Create your own plan by clicking HERE
Get the Best Deals During Back to School Shopping
The Child has been out of school for a number of years now however, I still remember the pain I would get in my wallet every year at this time as I shopped for Back-to-School! We only had one student to send back into the classroom. I don’t know how parents with multiple children handle it without taking out a…
The Problem with Guilt Part 6: Guilt Likes the Dark
Guilt thrives the more we keep it to ourselves. guilt begins deep within us & likes to stay there. The longer we keep it locked up, the more it grows & multiplies. We feel shame when we haven’t done anything wrong.
The Problem with Guilt Part 5: We Go It Alone
A guilt trip is a lonely journey. We rarely take a companion along with us. Those around us may suffer because of our guilt but they aren’t able to ease it. We are unable to share our burden with others so they might carry part of it for us.
The Problem with Guilt Part 4: We Overcompensate
We feel guilty. We think we’ve done something wrong. We try to make it right. When we can’t make it right, we overreact. One of the ways we overreact is to overcompensate. In other words, we try to make things up. We can’t make it right, so we work to make it better. Oh, Boy!
The Problem with Guilt Part 3: We Overreact
Let’s review: we say we feel guilty. Our brains process guilt with doing something wrong. If we have done something wrong, then we must work to make it right. Unfortunately, we haven’t REALLY done anything wrong so we find it’s impossible to make things right. Out of frustration, we simply try harder. And that is when we overreact.