Your child does not belong to you, you’re on borrowed time with them. Your mission should you choose to accept it, is to build a better human being: not a mini version of you and all your deflated hopes and dreams. Help them become the best them and not the best you!

Whew, despite the mommy and me outfits & the fact that i love to match my kids, I realize my daughters aren’t literal me’s. They have their own individual God-given purposes. Just because their mommy was a dancer for 15 years doesn’t mean they’ll enjoy dance. Just because I’m the ultimate girly girl doesn’t mean they’ll be that way too. Just because I went the University route for my career doesn’t mean that’ll be their journey. We have got to stop pressuring our kids to be doctors, lawyers, engineers, athletes, Youtube sensations ( had to throw that in there for the millenial parents) whatever it may be.. just because that is what you did or wish you would have done.

Because, before you know it, you will pressure them right out of God’s will for their life! My daily prayer is that God will reveal to my children at an early age the call on their life and my job as a mom is to simply support that in any way that i can.

I loves little people with all my heart and i am so grateful for the gift of raising them, but i also realize the time I’ll spend raising them is a short one compared to their lifespan, God willing, so I’m careful not to make my kids an idol. When the time comes to let them go so they can start their individual life journeys, as hard as it will be,, if they are confident in what God has called them to do and they know no matter what life throws at them they will be okay if they are operating under the will of God. Then i will have peace and know my job as a parent was well done!

Cheer to intentional biblical parenting and not pressure cooker parenting!