Mommy Mantras: Affirmations and Insights to Keep You from Losing Your Mind (Hardcover )

Mommy Mantras: Affirmations and Insights to Keep You from Losing Your Mind Book Description

Phrases in this text empower, revive, and remind mothers that there is always another way to see their situation. Buddhist-inspired and psychologically grounded, these snippets of wisdom come through entertaining and universal stories of unpredictable life with children.
Mommy Mantras are phrases you can say in your head, or out loud if you need to, during those trying moments of mothering. They act to empower you, revive you, and remind you that there is always another way to see your situation. Buddhist-inspired and psychologically grounded, these snippets of wisdom come through entertaining and universal stories of unpredictable life with children.
Here are a few examples of how a mantra can help you control your reactions to those mothering circumstances largely out of your control:
When it seems like everyone else's children are better behaved (and doesn't it always feel that way?), you can remind yourself to "narrow your focus," or stop comparing your children to others, which is only bound to make you miserable.
When the monotony of caring for a toddler gets to you, remembering to "surrender to the goat," as one mother did when her son insisted on feeding the same goat at the petting zoo every day, for hours," "will help you recognize the importance of being in the moment, and will help you endure and even enjoy the sometimes tedious routines.
When you begin to resent that you do more housework than your spouse, despite your best intentions and all the nagging in the world, you can learn to "ignore the score,""" or let go of keeping track, which can become an unhealthy (and unhelpful) obsession.
When your mantras seem to fail you, you can always remind yourself that "I am not Buddha,""" Motherhood is not something we can master. We can only try to be more mindful. Even so, some days are harder than others. Mantras are the deceptively simple words we can use to diffuse stress and choose appropriate, constructive behavior sowe can recognize ourselves, find our center and be more mindful and compassionate mothers.

About the Author :

Diane Dillon has contributed to Mommy Mantras: Affirmations and Insights to Keep You from Losing Your Mind as an author. Virginia Hamilton was the first Black to win the Newbery Medal. She has also been awarded the Coretta Scott King Award, the National Book Award, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
Leo and Diane Dillon have won the Caldecott Medal twice.

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