Comments on: Confessions of a Selfish Mom

By: Krystal Wilkerson

Krystal Wilkerson — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 20:20:27 +0000

Terrie- I loved your comment!! It is SO TRUE! In our Young womens program we had a night where we had speakers from different stages of life come and speak to the girls, and the “empty nester” talked about this very thing! I LOVED it and it stuck with me since then! Thanks for also hitting on this! Its so important!

By: Brittania

Brittania — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 20:31:30 +0000

I used to feel bad about going to Zumba two nights a week but since I started doing Zumba I feel like myself again! It’s been a great feeling, I hadn’t realized that I needed that.

I also feel like I have to do everything myself, and then I realize I have a husband! And a Heavenly Father, a talk I heard recently made me realize that there are things I need Divine Help with that I’m just not thinking to ask for.

I wish I was there to babysit for you! And vice versa 😉

By: Terrie Lynn Bittner

Terrie Lynn Bittner — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:45:06 +0000

One thing I think busy moms often forget is that someday their children will be grown up and not need them all the time. I kept up my writing when my children were little, as well as some of my hobbies. I had to get up early to write, and later, after we were homeschooling, I wrote when they wrote, but I kept doing it. I also did at least a little genealogy, and of course, I still read.

Now that they are all grown up, I still have a life. The hobbies I loved then are still a part of me–one as a career and the others as hobbies. By taking time for ourselves now, we make sure we still have a life when our children grow up, and that makes it easier to let them grow up and become more independent. By the time they are in the older elementary school grades, they don’t want your attention every moment–you need to have a plan for that time, and the plan usually grows out of those “me time” moments.

Great article!