Last week, I wrote about how we parents should stop pretending we’re OK and acknowledge that we’re really, really struggling. I also included my mantra for the upcoming school year and asked you, dear readers, to tell me yours.
It seems I struck a nerve as so many of you wrote back with your thoughtful mantras. Here are a selection below:
“Acknowledge feelings. Offer choices. Set limits.” — Susan Nason
“Atrophy is not for me.” — Debbie Menze-Wells
“Do what you can today with what you have today.” — Diana Veneski
“Every day above ground is a good day.” — Mark Andrzejewski
“Start each day with a clean slate. All of us. Let yesterday be done and handle tomorrow when it becomes today.” — Wendi Travers
“‘Step by step.’ When a problem feels overwhelming, take a moment to look at the wall you've run into, mentally break it down into its individual bricks, and then just remove those bricks step by step until you can get by it.” — Nancy Korsun
“I just keep saying to myself ‘I can do hard things.’" — Abigail Mayrand
“Roll with it or it will roll over you.” — Karen Wolfe
“I repeat silently to myself, over and over, ‘calm, content, peaceful, tranquil, optimistic’ — with variations.” — James Pendergast
“My favorite go-to is ‘you can do anything for 5 minutes.’ Set a timer and do it.” — Liz Klaniecki
“For me: Everything that truly matters in my life is more than fine, and I am grateful. For my family: Let's get to ‘sorry’ as quickly as we can and then accept the "sorry" as easily as we can. For the world: This is for now. Just for now. It will get better.” — Heather Campbell |
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