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Help With Your Mother's Rule
Help With Your Mother's Rule is a forum for women who want trouble-shooting
help with their Mother's Rules or about any aspect of the 5 Ps of
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Holly: This blog is composed of your questions.Contact me at the address listed on Holly's Notebook page
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Similar MROL Resource for Dads?
Dear Holly,
I'm beginning to make changes in my stay-at-home life since reading your book. My husband is excited for me, but he would love a resource/book to help inspire him as your book did to me. Do have any recommendations? He's facing challenges every day in the work force. He's trying to get himself organized with his real estate career while strengthening his roles as husband and father. If you have any ideas that can help get him started, we would appreciate it!Labels: 3rd P Partner, Miscellaneous
posted by Holly at 8:26 PM
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Impatience and Lack of Sleep
Dear Holly,
I am in the middle of reading your book and I believe I am already gaining some helpful insights from it. I have 3 children; a 12 year old boy, 7 year old boy and a 2 year old girl. None of my children have ever slept more than 2-3 hours in a stretch until they were 3-4 years old. My 2 year old is still waking 2-3 times a night and often will stay awake for an hour or more - doesn't cry or fuss, just lies awake and chats or plays with her toes. Needless to say, after twelve years with little sleep, most nights just 3-4 hours, due to restless kids, I am totally exhausted. My patience has dwindled down to next to none. We're in our fifth year of homeschooling and, overall, it is going well. My problem is the patience issue. I find myself losing my patience with the children, especially my 7 year old who is a very sweet soul but is full of energy and very little attentiveness. I've been posing this question to my husband and now I pose it to you. How do I get through the day as a patient and loving mother when I'm so tired I feel like I can't even think straight, let alone, conduct a peaceful home.Labels: 2nd P Person, 4th P Parent
posted by Holly at 2:31 PM
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Battling Relatives
Dear Holly,
We have been homeschooling for a few years now and are experiencing much fruit. Although it took my husband some time to come on board, he now appreciates and is happy with our decision. However, we experience much resentment from family members who live near us and whose children attend the local Catholic school which also happens to be our parish. There is not a huge homeschooling community in our parish, which doesn't bother me, but when running into family members on a continuous basis who clearly do not support our "way of life" it adds so much stress to our marriage and family life. I say way of life because our parenting is radically different as well. We have been looking to move for quite some time, initially because we are growing out of our house, but now I feel and strongly desire to move so that we can be the family God desires us to be without the need to "battle" and feel like such "oddballs." There are bigger issues here, specifically in our marriage that we are working on. But I find it extremely difficult to focus on my immediate family in addition to dealing with the demands of unsatisfied family members. Any advice?Labels: Homeschooling
posted by Holly at 10:33 AM
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Time & Activities for Little Ones
Dear Holly,
I am a young mom of two sweet children--a girl (3 1/2) and a boy (1 1/2). I am a full time homemaker, and I love being with my children. However, I often find myself at a loss as to what to do with them. They're very young, so we do some play together, read stories, go outside to play and sometimes to the park. I fit in laundry, cooking, cleaning up, running errands around that, but I feel like especially my 3 year old often demands a lot of attention. I want to give her plenty of attention and I enjoy being with her, but I don't feel like I need to play with her all day. I do try to include them in doing laundry and sometimes cooking (if I'm not in a hurry). I also sometimes have projects or gardening that I would like to do, but as soon as I try to do it they are right there trying to "help" me.
In addition, what is a reasonable amount of playtime with the kids? Also, do children at this age need a lot of structure? Our schedule basically includes meals (& cleaning up) and a rest time in the afternoon with play at other times (unless we are out running errands or at play group--1 time per week). Sorry this is so long. I hope you can offer some suggestions.Labels: 4th P Parent
posted by Holly at 9:45 AM
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