Comments on: 6 going on 2 going on life

By: nolamom

nolamom — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:53:02 +0000

Thank you Jenn! This has given this tired mom some courage, your girls are so blessed, thank you for this blog!

By: nolamom

nolamom — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:50:41 +0000

I have not written in a long time, but this has touched my mom’s heart, and I want to thank you. You are an awesome mom, and your girls are extremely blessed. Thank you for your blog, this one has given me some courage where my girls are concerned.
Eternally grateful!

By: Catootes

Catootes — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:00:46 +0000

hhmmm, what an amazing expression of those inner conflicts.
I wish you had written this post 8 years ago when my 3 year old daughter was the incarnation of a demon spawn.

Now? Now she is amazing, she is strong and she is solid, because baing a Mom sometimes means letting them stand on their own feet.

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:08:44 +0000

ah, so poignant, so real. How I wish I had a mother like you. Instead, I use therapy and models like you to learn to mother myself. Thank you for your honesty and for being so articulate. I will save this wisdom and read it again and again.

By: Marilyn @ A Lot of Loves

Marilyn @ A Lot of Loves — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:55:52 +0000

I’m a mother of my own spirited child. Although he’s only 3 (and a half!) I can see that I will have many days like this one in my future. It’s exhausting work to mother the intensity. But I love it all the same…it makes bedtime that much sweeter.

By: Marilyn @ A Lot of Loves

Marilyn @ A Lot of Loves — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:54:38 +0000

By: bad mummy

bad mummy — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:06:19 +0000

We are doing the same thing here – with 4 (going on 14) yr old Mook and I. She must be poked and prodded into wakefulness in the morning, which results in her peering thru slitted eyelids at me, glaring and yelling “I’m still tired. Go away”! The other day she called me an idiot because I wouldn’t allow her to watch television. She tells me that Daddy would let her watch tv. She’s been biting at school. Throwing things. Tuning out when she’s called on her actions. I want to call a giant time-out so that I can lock us in our apartment, no phone or e-mail or outside influence, and get back to the business of her being her. Holding her close and loving her and making her feel safe. But enforcing that, when she looks to be for help for tasks I (and she) know she can do, I WILL respond with “we are responsible for our own selves”. Because, at the end of the day, we are.

She’s with her dad at the moment. Back home with me again tomorrow afternoon. I cannot wait to hold her close, but teach her how to let go.

By: Erin W.

Erin W. — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:48:24 +0000

Beautiful! A lesson in parenthood. Lovely!

By: 6512 and growing

6512 and growing — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:27:36 +0000

And one more thing: it is way easier to do for your child and skip the tantrum. But again, you are giving HB so many gifts in your patient abiding.

By: Deanna

Deanna — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:54:31 +0000

Does her school have a counselor? My mom was an elementary school counselor and spent lots of her time working with kids who were dealing with divorce. Your daughter might find it a great relief to spend some time talking about her feelings with someone who isn’t a part of the family. Just a thought.