Dr. Ann Haberman

Something I wrote when I was thinking of how hard it is to keep calm when the kids are anything but. And how it makes us grow as humans.

If you’re a mom or dad and you’re trying your best each day - you have a lot to be proud of. Just trying your best is already so much better than most parents. And your kids can feel it!

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Here’s the full text:

Motherhood is my spiritual practice.
To be present even when I want to be MIA.

To see there’s nothing more important than being with my kid right now, even when everything else feels urgent.

To meet them where they are, not where my anxiety is.

To do the long exhale when they’re driving me nuts, even when it feels like breathing isn’t doing anything (it is).

To see them as they are. Not as my anxious mind thinks they are, and not as I want them to be.

To hold both the boundary and the space when I know it’s the right thing, but they don’t,
and they’re crying their eyes out.

To do the impossible act of letting them eat the simple carbs, because it’s all they’re eating right now. To not make a funny face about it, even when I’m internally freaking out.

Yet keep gently introducing the broccoli, reminding myself someday they’ll like it, even when it seems like that day will never come. And to not push, because then it never will.

To give myself grace and acceptance when I’m not holding up to these standards.