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Home › Articles › Holiday: Spring/Summer › Mother's Day Tips

Mother's Day Tips

How Mothers Can Organize the Good Life Through More Creative Parenting

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  • Eat together as a family as often as possible. Our families are fractured today partly because we spend so little time at the table with one another. There's nothing so bonding as dinner together with the most important people in your life – even if you are the oddest family on the block for eating together so regularly.
  • Occasionally take your children with you on some activity having to do with your own work life. This won't work well for toddlers, of course, but from age 6 or 7 on, children are able to spend a short time in an adult work atmosphere, whatever it might be, and learn to behave and appreciate what Mom or Dad does on the job away from home. They may also understand the way your work has shaped you as a person and why you so often worry about work-related issues.
  • Work with your children to reorganize or redecorate their room. Take them along to pick out paint or wall paper. If you're not the super organizing or decorating type, hire someone who is, and be sure that person really pays attention to your children's hopes and dreams for the room.
  • Get to know your children's teachers personally – all of them. You'll be much better prepared to understand what they experience every school day in the classroom. Then when your child says, "Gee, Ms. Boone is (fill in the blank – hard, funny, neat, goofy)," you'll be able to relate.

     

    • "It's still the little things that make a great mother-child relationship," says Rocks. "Get the small things right, and then the big picture will take care of itself."


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