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In all honesty, the hardest thing for me is finding a way to balance the need for discipline and still extend grace. I’ll admit that there is a lot of fear in my heart relating to the balance. There is obviously a need for discipline in everyday life to maintain order and sanity…or my kids would be going nuts at mealtimes and any sense of decorum would be out the window.
Much of that though also has to do with HOW the discipline is administered. There’s a nice way and then there is the way that is frequently present when Mommy has reached her absolute limit of patience and completely loses it over something really, really insignificant.
It’s in this area that I am consistently failing, berating myself over how horrible of a mother and trying to figure out what I can do to change things.
And in all honesty…I cannot change things.
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I think this is the case for most of us Jolanthe…… I recognise this in myself and dislike it intensely. I reason with it slightly in that I don’t think it would be ideal for my daughters to grow into adult women trying to measure up to perfection. In seeing me at less than perfection frequently and then talking it through with me when I apologise for screaming about something insignificant and saying what I would rather I had done, they both learn that it is OK to not be perfect and they learn ways of dealing with having screamed at someone! In saying that, I don’t use that as an excuse to lose it at my children and I try every day to be calm and measured ALL day but I also try not to beat myself up over life happening!!!!!
Hugs, Jenni
I just read this post over on Raising Homemakers. The post title is called
“The Making of a Mother (How to Overcome Failure)
It ties right in…
Kelly
Whenever I am having a rough Mommy moment, I like to watch this video clip, it is so uplifting and has a way of reminding me that when I’m doing my best that’s what matters.
Motherhood: An Eternal Partnership With God
Thank you for your post, it’s nice to know that I am not the only mom out there who struggles with this. :) Hang in there.