Teachings of a Not-So-Perfect Mom

By Glenice Lui

Over the years, author Glenice Lui has learned many valuable lessons from her children; now she shares her favourite insights from being a mom. Modern moms try their best to juggle the many demands on their time and energy, with varying levels of success. Glenice has shared your struggle to balance work and family. Like you, shes learned that while moms may not always have the right answers, if their actions are driven by pure and unconditional love, things will usually work out just fine in the end.

Teachings of a Not-So-Perfect Mom, her gift to moms everywhere, is filled with funny, heartwarming, and inspirational life lessons she has experienced. She wants to send the message that all moms have been given an innate gift of unimaginable love that transcends any difficulties coming our way in bringing up our families. So instead of wasting energy trying to be perfect, moms just need to have perfect love for their families.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press AU
• Release date: Sep 13, 2012
• ISBN: 9781452507088

Glenice Lui

Glenice Lui owns a label of children’s wear called KandyCrew; runs a retail store; operates Life Skills Centre for Kids, a vacation care; works part time as a senior manager in the IT advisory division of an accounting firm in Sydney; and is active in her church and community charities. She and her husband, Jerry, have two young children, Jenina and Joshua.

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Wholly dedicated to my beloved family—Jerry, Jenina, and Joshua—and to Someone up above who loves us all. Also to all the moms who unknowingly make the world

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Foreword

Many times, moms like me try to be everything to everyone. It makes things especially hard when we try to juggle our own personal dreams with the demands and aspirations to always be there for our families and to be able to show constant love and support. Over the years, I have learned that moms may not always have the right answers or may not always get things right, but if our actions are guided by pure and unconditional love, then nothing can ever be so wrong. Challenges are more like paths that lead to greater goodness if we’ll only look at the positive side of things.

This book provides a compilation of lessons in life derived from my daily real life experiences as a mom. With this book, I hope to inspire all moms and convey the message that we have all been given an innate gift of unimaginable love that transcends any difficulties coming our way in bringing up our families. In these pages, I hope to show through my own daily life encounters that we don’t have to feel bad about not being perfect because we do not have to be; we only have to perfectly love our families.

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Monday was my son’s first day at the big school. It was going so well until he realized that his mom had put white socks on him while everyone else wore navy socks. On the second day, Mom did not read the school newsletter properly—how could she miss the instructions that were in bold letters?—and she put him in the school uniform when all of the others were in their sports uniforms.

This week, I failed to