The Picture-Perfect Guilty Mom

By Susie Garlick | January 20, 2019 |
Our Children Need to Hear Us Say No

The Picture-Perfect Guilty Mom When my children were little, I had a horrible time getting anything done. I was the picture-perfect guilty mom who always worried that I was going to miss something. What made it worse were the articles that went something like this: “Don’t worry about getting the dishes done, the laundry done,…

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Our Children Need to Hear Us Say No

By Susie Garlick | March 15, 2018 |
Our Children Need to Hear Us Say No

Our Children Need to Hear Us Say No Effective parenting involves rules and boundary setting.  When we give our children rules, we are saying to them, “I love you enough to not be liked by you right now.” It is hard to set strong boundaries because children are REALLY good at guilting us into getting…

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