Our Value Comes From 3 Places

One parenting book that I have been picking at and have loved is The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers. One concept addressed from the very beginning is the importance of knowing our value, as mothers, in order to be good mothers and teach our children their own value.

The book states that our real value as mothers comes from three places:

1. We are loved
2. We are needed
3. We are born for a higher purpose

We may sometimes feel like failures, but we are not failures. We are loved, we are needed, and we are born for a higher purpose. This book offered a needed reminder for me that I am the center of my children's universe and my mood changes their world a bit. Especially to my young baby, (as I provide for all of her needs) I matter as much as life itself.

Some days I feel like I am doing all the work behind the scenes and not being noticed whatsoever. If you come to my house, I promise you will hear me say the following or something close to it when talking to my children, "Hello? Hello! Are you listening to me? Yes, Hi. Focus on me for a second." Sometimes I even have this conversation with my husband...I loved these reminders that feeling good about my value to them (my family) is important because the better I feel, the better my relationship with them will be and the happier we will all be.

My children and my husband deserve a happy mother and wife. They need me to remember that I am loved by them. They need that love to guide me in all that I do for them (even in housework) because I am needed. I am born for a higher purpose- I am born to be a good mother. This is the calling in which I will leave a mark in the world. My very presence is important in my home.

Put it on a sticky note

slap it on your mirror

write it on your hand

stencil it on your wall?

chant it to yourself in public places...and laugh at people's reactions

1. We are loved
2. We are needed
3. We are born for a higher purpose

(From The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers)