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Combined some fantastic support and encouragement with deep breaths, today. Inhaled positive feedback, recently given, all the way down to my toes.
Exhaled my own unrealistic expectations and comparisons.
Feeling optimistic about yourself helps you enjoy your parenting, and your life.

While meditating in a good friend's backyard yesterday, I was given a tiny reminder by Nature. With closed eyes I gently swatted off my knee what felt like a mosquito just beginning to sting.
 Opening them, I observed a bee sitting on my other knee. My friend commented that not only hadn't this ever happened but they'd never noticed bees in the yard.
So, while I sat, on her front porch, with baking soda paste on my knee, I contemplated what metaphor would be most helpful.
I chose: Bee Yourself.
Our children benefit when we are parenting them as our own unique selves.