How to question yourself
Questioning ourselves is something that is so easy to come to, as mothers. Did we choose the right school/homeschool curriculum? Did we choose the right piano teacher? Are we working enough on manners? Do they know enough about…? Am I doing the right thing for discipline/behaviour? Do I listen to my children enough? Do I spend enough quality time with them? Do I love them well enough? Am I making the right food? Am I feeding them too much sugar/wheat/whatever??? Wow, isn’t it exhausting? Sometimes we can get in what I refer to as a mental rut. Jennifer Read-Hawthorne, in her article Change your Thoughts, Change your World says; We humans, it seems, have anywhere from 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day. But according to some research, as many as 98 percent of them are exactly the same as we had the day before. Talk about creatures of habit! Even more significant, 80 percent of our thoughts are negative. I would hazard a bet that a lot of those negative thoughts would