What can you stop right now and acknowledge yourself for? I know I’m imperfect and I spend more time looking at my challenges, deficiencies, and flaws than I do at what I’m doing right! What I am doing well.

I invite you to take a second and look. What are you doing that you are proud of as a parent? What do you like about yourself as a parent? We all blow it from time to time but what about that time that you took a breath instead of yelling? What about how creative you are? And how you’ve crafted your role as a parent, taking the gems from your parents and creating your own philosophy and approach.

Pick just one thing that you feel good about. That you appreciate about yourself as a parent. Now, I don’t mean what you appreciate about being a parent but about WHO YOU ARE as a parent. Take that in. That’s you.