Power of Moms Pick: 10 Truths You Need to Hear When You Feel Like a Failure as a Mom
Do you feel like a failure as a mother? You'll want to read these beautiful words of encouragement.
5 Ways To Deal with Emotional Earthquakes
Maybe you've been there: trying so hard to be happy, calm, and patient for such a long period of time and under such stressful circumstances that you ultimately lose your temper. Allyson Reynolds have 5 ways to help deal with the emotional earthquakes that inevitably topple our good intentions.
We all Deserve a Payday
Do you ever dread those moments in the restaurant when everyone is staring at your family? When you know your children’s manners are being critiqued by the grandma at the next table over? Cheryl Cardall shares what she wants to say when she’s that grandma...or sooner.
Baking Bread and the Importance of Patience
Fresh homemade bread is one of the best things in the world. But, it takes time and patience to achieve a great loaf. Join author Heather Hale as she uses her culinary skills to teach patience to her son, and remind herself of a few important things in the process.
Patience Isn’t Just for Kids
Patience is a topic we usually reserve for our relationships with our children. But what about developing patience for yourself as the mother of these demanding creatures? Do you work as hard at having patience with yourself as you do at having patience with your children?
*This giveaway is now closed* Doogoods Trading Cards
The 10-year-old son of a Power of Moms board member invented a game to encourage kindness. We're giving away FOUR copies!
With Love From My Kids
Do you ever wonder if all your work is paying off? “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing! My kids had given sacrificially and unselfishly so that we could have something nice...They demonstrated back to us what we’d been showing them for years.” This mom shares a gift she will not easily forget.
February Make a Difference Challenge: Pink Shirt Day
Together we can make a difference for those 160,000 kids that are too scared to go to school every day! Let’s have this month be less about the cards and chocolates and more about the real actions of love and kindness.
Laurie Snider: Love, Kindness, and Respect
Laurie Snider never wanted to her six children to doubt her love for them. So she decided to stop yelling and make sure everything she said to them was said calmly and lovingly. She gave them, in the words of one of her daughters, a childhood that was like a big sparkly cloud of love,...
Introduction to February’s Value: Love
Introduction Our youngest child is named Charity. We liked the sound of the word as well as its definition of “pure love.” A few weeks before her first birthday we were trying to generate a discussion of love with our older children around the dinner table. What is love? What causes us to feel it...
Knowing when To Breathe in and when To Exhale
Moments come, and then they are gone. It is up to us, as mothers, to decide which ones we choose to “breathe in, long and deep” and which ones we let pass us by. Author Emily Ashton shares her beautiful thoughts on living from moment to moment and seeing past the tough moments...
December Make a Difference Challenge: The Twelve Days of Christmas
Every year our family does the 12 Days of Christmas. We choose a family that is in need of some added Christmas cheer and we secretly deliver gifts every night before Christmas.As much as I love this tradition, and highly recommend it to your family, I really want to add more giving in simple ways...
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