Do You Feel Overworked And Underappreciated As A Mother?
Many of us absolutely love being a mother but oftentimes feel more like Cinderella than Super Woman. We put so much energy and effort into making our children safe and happy yet we end up feeling depleted and drained. Read on to learn some great parental advice on how to increase your personal happiness and remain happy moms.
Resources for moms are plentiful. There is a vast amount of better parenting tips and advice awaiting us at our fingertips. Magazines, TV shows, radio shows and any Google search will land you with a plethora of tools and parent advice all claiming top notch help for moms on how to be the best you can be. This is all well and good, and readily needed. However, an overlooked, yet extremely powerful means of improving your parenting is to simply be happy.
Feeling happy as a mother, a wife, a woman is key to your parenting. As long as you feel happy, feel incredibly good, then you will automatically be a better parent. It will follow as a natural result. As human beings we operate at maximum potential when we feel happy. Life appears to be less of an effort when our happiness index is raised. Stress melts away and problems dissolve. Our ability to cope with hurdles improves. And we tend to notice and relish in more good around us instead of focusing on the negative.
So, how to be happy always? Well, here are several resources for moms who are searching to locate the keys to happiness. These are a couple I use on a regular basis that have tremendous effect at skyrocketing my happiness index, thus as a bonus side affect, greatly augmenting my parenting skills.
1) Gratitude. By intentionally focusing on all the things in your life you are thankful for, you shift into a happy state. Appreciation paves the way for happiness. Take a minute to list the people and circumstances you appreciate and notice how a smile forms on your lips.
2) Do something for yourself. Take up a hobby, start working towards a personal goal, catch up with an old friend, sneak away for a couple of hours and go shopping or get a pedicure, attend a class at the gym, join a club. The activity doesn