I’m learning firsthand what I’ve known secondhand for a long time now – as my kids get older, we have to find new ways of staying connected. We’re past the bedtime-story years, when every day brought many hugs, immediate relays of every detail of what happened that day, and there just wasn’t a lot of [read more ...]
If you’re lucky enough to have brothers and sisters you enjoy, working with them when your parents need extra help will likely go pretty smoothly. But many of us with siblings have complicated or distant relationships with one or more of them. Unfortunately plenty of families “assign” one person to do everything for Mom and [read more ...]
This is the 4th post in the Make Your Life Easier series on Mom In The Balance. Check out Stop Cleaning, Scale Down The Holidays and Get Organized for more ideas! Maybe you’re so direct about what you think and what you want that you could stand to tone it down a little. Are you [read more ...]
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The Good Enough Sandwich Generation Mother
Books have been written about the “good enough” mother since at least 1988. They propose the idea that instead of trying to be a perfect parent of perfect children that you should strive for “good enough”. This idea is explored in different ways. Being good enough can mean developing your own insights into your and [read more ...]