Working Mother

When Working Motherhood’s Stresses Have You Down, You Need the W.A.Y. Method

Retraining your brain like this will finally bring you happiness in the chaos.

My daughter wanted to sing a song from the Broadway show, for her third-grade talent show. But she was having trouble with some of the higher, trickier notes and struggling with some of the words. I didn’t want her to mess up, so I chose the “perfect” song for her: “Doe, a Deer,”. She looked at me, defeated, unconvinced that she should do things my way. I switched into and commanded her to do my song. My reasoning? I’d rather her be angry at me than hurt by her friends.

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