Welcome to Raising Kids With Purpose!
Parenting can be hard but it doesn’t have to be.
How many times have we heard this?
Too many!
I know, home can sometimes feel like a complete and total circus. Utter chaos at times. With the right tools, knowledge, a little trial and error and finding what works for each personality that resides in your home, you can feel calm, joyful and like everything is right in the world. Or at the least like a tamed circus.
Since 2009 when I became a mom for the first time, I have read countless books, blog posts, articles and have listened to just as many resources to not only figure out my own kids but to also help other moms like you. It’s my passion!
The Parenting Journey
This is what I have discovered on my parenting journey that I want to share with you!
- Take care of yourself first. This is a GAME to the CHANGER! You can call it mindfulness, self-care, calm the heck down, or whatever it is that helps you realize that it all begins with us!
- Connect and respond overreact and command. At the core, kids want to feel safe, loved, and accepted.
- Love God. Love people. And teach our kids to do the same.
- Get organized. This seems to be a hot topic for a lot of busy mommies and I get it! It has taken be years to find ways to stay organized. With the right tools and routines, this is more than doable and can totally be fun in the process.
- Help your kids self regulate. We can only help our kids if they can help themselves.
- Let your kids be kids and do things on their own! A question that has helped me so much over the years is, “Will this hurt anything (or anyone)?” If the answer is no, try to let them continue exploring and (make THEM!) clean up the mess later!
- And lastly, technology is evil. I’m totally joking. Possibly. Navigating this handheld screen-driven world when we truly don’t even know the long-lasting impact it has on development (yet). With rules and systems in place, this too, can be managed in a healthy way.
Let’s Get Personal…
- In 2008, I married the only boyfriend I ever had. He loves our family hard and gives me lots and lots of grace because I sure need it!
- My family consists of a whole lot of loud, obnoxious, crazy boys. We have three boys ages born in 2009, 2012, and 2017. I’m the only female in our family of five and although my heart really wanted to change that ratio, I am truly grateful for the insanity. Most days.
- I’m a talker. I embrace who God created me to be, hence, why I decided to start Raising Kids With Purpose! I do love to listen to people too and it makes me even more excited if they out-talk me! I think I always beat people in speed though.
- Some days it seems like I only live on Tazo Chai Tea Latte – the box kind you get from the grocery store because buying it from Starbucks…do I need to explain?
- Being with friends and having lots of friends around fuels me like nothing else. I’m an extreme extrovert and start to literally go crazy if I don’t have human contact for more than an hour. 2020 was a really rough year for me!
- It doesn’t matter if a parking lot is full or empty, my car never seems to be straight in a parking spot. There was a time when someone even put a sticky note that read, “Park in the lines next time!” on my driver’s side window. I wasn’t even over the line; just on it. I try, buddy! I do.
- I love to work out. I tried doing the whole at home, let’s motivate others kind of working out and just can’t do it. I’m the complete opposite of a homebody. There’s something about going to a group fitness class surrounded by a bunch of other sweaty people. Or maybe not the latter part.
- In addition to the gym, I love being outdoors. When it’s not a million degrees outside in the Arizona desert, I am out hiking our local trails as much as possible. And when it does feel like the face of the sun, our family escapes the heat in our camper. We spend many weekends in the woods exploring nature, breathing in the cool crisp air, hiking, and reading as many books as we can.
Join me!
Coming from a broken unpredictable home environment before the age of six, I remember always wanting to save the “troubled” kids in my class not realizing I could have been considered the same. It is innate for me to love and educate others.
I have a friend who often tells me, “you read and learn about it then tell me what I need to know.”
That’s what I hope to do on Raising Kids With Purpose. I’m not here to tell you how to parent but to give you practical advice I have found that helps and what you can do with your kids to stay active and healthy.
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