The Stay at Home Mother

As parents we must provide unconditional love. The type of love that has no expectations, no conditions and no ending – it does not “come and go”- it just is. We just give it, because we have it in us to give.

We need to let go of expectations or preconceived notions about our children and learn to separate them from their behaviour. After all, providing a child with unconditional love is the corner stone of their self-esteem...

For instance, I know I sometimes get frustrated and ask myself why my five-year old son talks back to me sometimes, or why my two-year old daughter doesn't listen when I need her to.

I have found myself asking why I can't change the way they "act out" - and wished they would simply be a certain way all the time.

When I roll my eyes or show disappointment in their behaviour, is when they really seem to pay the most attention to me - and as parents, I think some of us tend to forget just how powerful we are.

We must remember that we are like mirrors to our children. How we see them, is how they see themselves.

And what I want my children to see is a mother who loves them unconditionally - and accepts them just the way they are.