2020: A New Year, New You AND Me and My One Word Resolution

2020!

A NEW YEAR!

A NEW YOU

AND ME!

#Joy2020

I'm so excited for this year. I hope that you are too. Mine's already off to a great start! I'm always excited to start a new anything, that's why I love sunsets. There's a saying somewhere about how sunsets are the promise of an opportunity to do things over tomorrow. Every day we get a new chance at anything we want.

Over the past 6 months, I decided to use my daughter's biggest and hardest journey

as a brand new journey for me!

I know where I came from and I don't ever have to go back.

Read what quote helped me begin that attitude in 2012 when I first began blogging for inspiration.

I'll be sharing my own 2020 INTENTION BOARD (see this video from where I learned it)!

If you're questioning change for yourself...start tomorrow with one small change.That's all. Then keep that change going until you've mastered it and it becomes second nature. Use a calendar to mark each day you do that one thing.

We all deserve do-overs, so if you feel stuck, heavy or unfocused, try viewing every morning as

a NEW DAY. A NEW DO-OVER!

Good luck to you in the New Year and stick with me in 2020 where I'll share more of my journey and parenting topics regarding what you should teach kids!

Green Punch Buggy....!!!!

Green Punch Buggy...No Punch Back! As I was writing this blog post, my son came to me showing off his Lego creation. And don't you know I got hit at least five times since on my computer screen was displaying at least five different punch buggies, of five different colors thanks to Google Images. (Bad timing I'm thinking...) How can we possibly have world peace with these silly cars in the world!? ;) Don't the owners of these cute-but-obnoxious-cars understand that driving these things around town promotes violence!? ;) Anyhow.... The original purpose of this blog was to ask parents everywhere this question: Do you find yourself saying 'PUNCH BUGGY *BLANK-COLOR*! ' to yourself, even when the kids are not in the car??? I do! Isn't it funny how those games we used to play as a child are still around? I bet our parents say the same thing.... HAPPY FRIIIIIIDAAAAYYYY! P.S. I got hit at least ten more times, since as my son stood beside

Back to School Anxiety: Bullying

Download “School Boy Being Stressed” by David Castillo Dominici via freedigitalphotos.net I recently wrote about how to help your child if they’re struggling with going back to school because they were bullied. My biggest most important tip was to listen, because I honestly could not write a ‘How-to-make-them-not-afraid’ column. Frankly I thought that was absurd. Fear is sometimes real. Anxiety is sometimes truly there, and for a good reason. Our job as parents isn’t to try to make it go away, it’s to try to find out the true source of those worrisome feelings. If you’d like to read more, click here. And if you’re child is struggling to find excitement about the new school year, don’t deny it, just accept it and move forward gently. Here’s some more on bullying: Family Matters Links: A Touching Story/Song Bullying: A thing of the past A Peace Poem By My Teenage Daughter A Deeper Insight into My Thoughts on People Who Bring Harm to Others Other Links: Stop Bul

Good Customer Service At Home

Over the years, my careers have mainly been customer service based. I started in a family business and then moved on up through the rungs from waitress, to hostess, to sales associate, manager and eventually the GM of a hotel. In all my years, my training taught me that you should always do your best to take your customer all the way to what they need, make them happy, and never leave them until they are done with you. I pride myself on my customer service abilities. Though the other day, I think I failed at customer service in my own home! I was getting ready to cut my daughter's hair and because of how long it had gotten (she's been growing it out for a year!) I felt this time it would be best if instead of me spritzing it with water, she could wash and condition it real quick. She was fully clothed so I just suggested she run into the bathroom and wash her hair in the tub. She’s fourteen. I suppose I just assumed that she knew how to kneel over the tub and do it.

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