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WHEN YOUR BODY, MIND AND NERVES HAVE ENOUGH!
“Taking care of myself doesn’t mean me first, it means me too.” L.R. KNOST NERVES Working in a corporation where every week there’s a new project to be done so fucking quickly and the deadline kicks your butt again. When you hear every week that this is the last time we’ll work overtime and you stop believing it because you know it’s bullshit. There is also work waiting for you at home. Your children are waiting to be picked up from school. Do homework with your children and feed your children. Then, in such a drastically magical way, you no longer have a minute for yourself. You don’t have time…
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DO YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO HAVE SOME GOOD FOR YOURSELF?
“We expect mothers to work like – they don’t have children and we expect mothers to raisechildren as if they don’t work.” I heard an interview with a working mother on the radio. The interviewers asked her about her career path and priorities, and she answered: HER CAREER “A long time ago, I was preparing a list of priorities. As a young employee of the company, I put working for the company first on my list. Over the next years of working in this company, I gained experience and developed my career. I devoted a lot of time to this company and thanks to my perseverance, I was promoted to…
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FROM YEAR ONE TO FEW MORE WITH MY CHILDREN
“Raising a child brings new challenges every year” There was a little precious there – Patrick and an even smaller precious – Dorothy. When they were born, the whole house turned upside down. My whole life turned upside down when they started teasing, arguing, and making fun of each other. My priorities, diet, and sense of free time have changed. And these were the beginnings, shocking and explosive. Beginnings that are not written or talked about, you have to get used to it and set your own rules so as not to go crazy.And what has changed after a few years, when the children are older? Little Patrick is already…
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I WISH TO BE MY CHILDREN’S SHADOW
“Magnificent childhood is not childhood locked in a safe bubble.” We recently conducted a little experiment with my children. We try to let them outside occasionally and watch from the balcony. They love being independent, especially my 6-year-old son, and I’m simply afraid to leave them alone. They increasingly pressure me to let them go outside alone. Then I have to create the same protective story for their safety: “Children, what will happen and what to do if a stranger comes and asks you to go with him to the car, bus, or restaurant?“ Children answer: “We won’t go and we will scream for help or call for Mom or…
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MY NEW LOOK ON MOM RETURNING TO WORK AFTER MATERNITY.
I love being on teams with working mothers. They are the highest functioning messes I know.”-MARICAR SANTOS- When you read this, some of you will be outraged by my comments, and others will laugh. I know, because more than once in the group of mothers, I have already presented my opinions on returning to work, benefits, and disadvantages. And just as each of us has a different approach to raising children, each of us struggles with the decision to return to work. I did not wait long, and after 10 months, when maternity leave was over, I went to work with my first child, and the same with the second.…
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FREE FEET CARRY ME TO HAPPINESS
A few questions appeared after the last post: “The charms of my childhood”. (https://littlepuzzlesandme.com/the-charms-of-my-childhood/) . And here we go, below I answer the most important ones: First question “Are you not afraid that a child running around without shoes may be at risk of being bitten by an insect?” “Yes and No”. I try to look back and remember my childhood, how many times I ran without shoes, and how many times I was bitten by ants, stung by nettles, and hurt by sharp stones, and I still feel the joy of running without shoes. My only fear is that my child will suffer because, like any mother, you would…
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HOW TO UPSET YOUR OWN CHILD?
I live in fear of the day my child will ask, “Where are all my other drawings?” I am a Mom of two small children, Patrick 6 years old, and Dorothy 3 years old. I made a list that I want to show my kids when they grow up. The list shows them in the future how trivial situations annoyed them and what drama came out of ordinary, non-committal questions. I will give you this list to help you avoid the parenting mistakes I make so you know how quickly and irreparably you can piss off your kids. My created list of questions will alert you to a morning, evening,…
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THE CHARMS OF MY CHILDHOOD
“Childhood is a short season to be enjoyed not rushed.” Eat ice cream with my dog. Try a green strawberry or gooseberry. Eat cherries with pits. If you don’t eat cherries with pits, shoot them at your friends. Play in the mud, in the water, in the tall grass all day long. Play rubber, play class. Peekaboo outside in the evening. https://littlepuzzlesandme.com/mountains-legend/ Make a soup of mud, sand, flowers, leaves and grass. Eat sorrel, chives, radishes, parsley, or anything from grandma’s garden. Eating fruit from the neighbor’s garden. Drink milk straight from the cow. Eat carrots washed in the river. Throw the stick at the tower of empty cans. Throw…
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MY IMPORTANT ASPECTS THAT IMPROVE LEVEL OF THE HAPPINESS
Who needs happiness in life? Probably everyone, right? But each of us sees our happiness differently and draws it from different aspects of life. In my hierarchy of happiness 1st place takes: Health Is an important aspect of happiness in my life. I know one quote that says: “Money can buy everything but it can’t buy health”. Each of us has experienced some worse days in our lives: diseases, colds, fractures, injuries, or the popular COVID. I hate this feeling of weakness, pain, and helplessness. Then I feel really unhappy. Similarly, if someone close to me feels unwell. Once, my dad had a heart attack. He survived, but the whole story…
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MOTHERHOOD IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND HARDEST PART OF LIFE
“Because of my children, I laugh like a crazy woman, cry like a wimp, and feel love more than ever before.” The above funny quote that starts today’s post is 100% true and is an exact example of me as a mom. Motherhood hasn’t changed me much, but it has shown me a new level of love. Being a new mom with no experience and many questions every day about what to do with a little new creature in my arms was difficult. During my first months with a newborn, I would describe myself as a mom crying like a wimp more than a mom laughing like a crazy woman. …
