Please fill in the required fields.
- I love bringing folks together to talk about family and work, and what we can do to make it all fit. That's my job and I adore it. My personal blog is at wordydoodles.blogspot.com and I'm @WordyDoodles. And I love live performances (though with the little ones, it's been awhile!), cooking, eating, dancing, chocolating, lip gloss, reading, writing, and I secretly love math. No one who knew me as a kid would have guessed it, but it's true. Looking forward to connecting with you all here!
Anita posted on Forum Discussion Three things I got done today!
Because as Mom's the stuff we get done also gets undone just as quick... we need to make a note of the things we did get done everyday!
Anita participated in the Live Talk Courageous Parenting: We're Writing the Book Chapter Here!
Amy (and Cooper and Emily)-- what an amazing topic for discussion. I wish I could be here; I'll be on a call for MomsRising. :) So I will definitely be thinking about you all! This is so needed and brilliant. I can't wait to come back and read the responses. My ideas of courageous parenting are as varied as the rainbow! I think there are ways to be a courageous parent inside and outside the home. Inside, I think it's courageous to talk with your partner about co-parenting, especially if that doesn't feel like an easy conversation. I think it's courageous to acknowledge that it does take a village, that no one can or SHOULD do it all, and that it's courageous to let others help us. Outside the home, I think it's courageous to parent just the way your child needs at that moment (you get to decide how to handle a tantrum at the market, in a way that's not dictated by the glares you might get but by your most loving example-- that's courageous!). And I think it's courageous to talk to HR about the time you need to parent the way your kids need-- that's being an amazingly courageous parent, and I want to support changing corporate culture so people can realistically have those conversations more. Maybe most importantly for me, courageous parenting means taking care of myself (protecting the mojo!). I was just talking with someone about this the other day-- we talked about how our moms were so strongly bound to an Asian cultural notion of mother-martyr, and how that didn't help us as little girls (I felt guilty about all she gave up to raise me). My goal to be a courageous parent is to show my girls that I take care of them by taking care of myself-- giving myself time to exercise, to follow my interests, to keep learning without shame from both failure and success, every single day of my life.
Wed, Oct 21 at 1 pm ET: Write the book chapter here in an hour - collaboration at its best! With Amy Tiemann, MojoMom, we're sharing real life experiences, thoughts and tips on courage - as it shows up in our lives and in our kids' to write a chapter for Amy's new anthology, coming out in March 2010. Please join us for this chance to add your voice to the conversation.
Anita posted on Forum Discussion Zephyr's Circle
