Life in the grind of things

When you have children it's sometimes hard to remember that you were that age too once. Children remind us each day where we come from and when we really enjoy that moment we can learn and grow in so many new ways.

Children have melt downs we all know that, it's how we handle them that makes us strong or not so strong. Tonight Cadence was hitting and yelling and even crying about things I never said to her. I did raise my voice to her in the heat of things and boy did my throat pay the price! I knew better, I've been sick for a week and my throat is still not even close to 70% better at the moment.

But when I just chose not to yell anymore and let my word be the last word in a calm and quite way I was able to keep the peace within myself. Did it keep my children at peace? No way they still wanted TV, they still wanted to cry but when I remembered just let them have their fits that it wasn't doing me any harm or them I completely feel at peace.

Our children communicate to us in a number of ways and yelling and crying is just one of those ways. We yell and cry all the time just not in the way our children do! Now as I was thinking of my 7-step process to do here my children started to get calmer and calmer and when I got to my spirit statement both were asleep and no longer yelling out of their room. Please see the process below to see how you can begin to apply this easy new way of thinking into YOUR lives not just for you but for the whole family.

HMLM Process:
Cadence is yelling and not listening to anything I am telling her
This makes me feel angry
I think that it would just be easier if she would just calm down and listen
I gain frustration
and lose peace

Belief Statement:
Cadence is yelling and not listening to anything I am telling her, which makes me angry. I think that it would just be easier if she would calm down. I gain frustration and lose peace.

Spirit statement:
Cadence is calm and listening, I am at peace and this is easy. I gain calm and peace.