Why Do We,

You know when you’re out enjoying yourself with your children in public and a stranger just has to make a comment or a suggestion? We thank them and try to move on with our day. Sometimes those comments just get stuck in our brain though. We may believe what this stranger had to say says something about our parenting or our choices. Why do we let it bother us?

We raise our kids to believe in the Bible and have a firm foundation in God. The school system then comes in and teaches in a way where it basically attacks everything we’ve instilled in our children. Experts with governmental funding tell us that a certain cereal is better than farm fresh eggs for breakfast. Then we wonder if maybe we made some wrong choices in the food department. Why do we not stand tall in the decisions we’ve made?

Aunt Karen comes over and tells you what a fine job you are doing raising your kids, but that tone has you thinking otherwise. What part of our parenting is wrong and why is it just fine? Why do we let Aunt Karen get to us?

How about this?

We stop letting the outside noise get to us. We stop letting someone wave their degrees in our faces telling us they’re better for our children than their own loving parents. Let’s take the world wide web into our own hands and research for ourselves what is actually best for our family. 

We have to stop letting the government, strangers and even family make us feel inadequate to raise our own children. Most of us do not have the “village” helping us like our parents and grandparents had when they had children. We have to take our parenting torch and let it burn bright for ourselves and our families. 

We need to arm ourselves with knowledge and experience to defend our beliefs and decisions. 

Make people question how we do it all. Then we need to turn around and help other parents find their light and let their torch burn brighter as well. 

We need to stop bringing each other down. Life is too stressful trying to figure out who your real friends are and who the family is you can lean on without them gossiping behind our backs. 

Lead by example, and eventually, you’ll build your own village.

Hear my thoughts on Why Motherhood Is Not Bad.