Happy Moms Make Happy Parents

Before writing this piece in November 2016, I talked about how important it is for women to live healthy lives. In that post, I included a few reasons why this is important and provided a number of things that one could do in order to live healthily successfully. Because of its relevance to our well-being, I will repost that piece shortly.
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In this piece, I am going to talk directly to moms or women who are around children on a regular basis (grandparents, teachers, babysitters, and so on). I am going to give a brief synopsis on why it is important for you to work hard at being happy, and provide you with several interesting tips on how to do so.

Have you ever heard the statement, “If mom is not happy then no one is?” Well, as funny as it may sound, this is a fact! Moms, especially moms who are also wives, have a great amount of responsibility. What is important to realize is that the responsibility goes beyond making sure the family eats, has a clean home, is taken care of ​when sick, getting off to school/work on time, or teaching little ones what is necessary to become great adults; but it is also mom’s responsibility to protect and strengthen their child’s emotional and psychological health. How can this be possible if mom is not happy? What can mom do to ensure her child’s health if she is not in control of her own emotional and psychological health? Adults need to be very clear on how damaging our lives can be to our children; they are looking, learning, and repeating. This in itself is enough of a reason to analyze your life, your internals. If there are issues that affect your ability to be 100% present and effective in building the emotional and psychological well-being of a child, then you need to do some self-service.

After reading an article on Parents.com, I came across several ideas that may help you be the happy mom that your child deserves (visit parents.com) if you want to see the entire list). Take a look at these suggestions and see which ones (if not all) are things that you can begin to implement into your life:

1. Make some alone time (read a book, sit out on the porch with a cup of cocoa, go shopping, etc.)
2. Spend some “alone” time with your Honey Bunny
3. Eat healthy
4. Be sure to get plenty of sleep
5. Spend some time with friends without the children (and Honey Bunny)
6. Pamper yourself (hot bath, inexpensive gifts, a trip to the salon, a massage…you get the picture – you can visit our site and find some wonderful gifts)
7. Most of all, be happy….laugh, laugh, and laugh some more!

Listen, ladies, I understand how difficult it is to care for self when having to take care of everyone else but the bottom line….if we are not good, then neither are those around us. Take care of self first; our families will thank us for it!

Queendom rising....