Most kids in the United States started school today. We home school, so we didn’t. Being a homeschooler means we do schoolwork right at home. I do most of the teaching and Elisha and Elyssa are classmates. They were enrolled at a private school before we started homeschooling, but have never been enrolled in a public …
Elayna Fernandez ~ The Positive MOM
Acceptance goes well beyond tolerance or endurance of something unpleasant. Accepting is the first step to learn to love our differences, understanding and appreciating what others bring to our lives. Acceptance is a WHOLE Family principle because it enhances our relationship with others and ourselves. By accepting your children and teaching them the positive principle of acceptance, you …
As a mom, life sometimes seems to be running in autopilot. Most of our time is usually spent “multi-tasking”, problem-solving and “putting out fires.” Slowing down, embracing life and and living in the moment seem like lofty goals more suitable for single, high-achieving with amassed wealth. However, when you live consciously, motherhood is a place …
I was catching up with an old friend and I happened to mention my life story being featured on the “SuperHuman Performance” book series. He had always joked with me being some sort of superwoman or super mom. There’s some truth to that. The word “human” means “earthly being.” I used to hold what they …
I say it all the time: I am a word-nerd and I love it. I was not at all surprised to look up the etymological meaning of mother and find that it is ‘breast-feeder’ (the English word mother and Latin mater and many similar maternal words contain the worldwide etymon ma ‘breast’ + ter an Indo-European agent suffix). Breastfeeding my baby girls were the most amazing …
Mother’s Day is a day chosen for spouses, children, and everyone else to remember to offer serenity and show much-deserved appreciation for all the hard work we moms somehow manage to get done. I know what you’re thinking: “Everyday SHOULD be Mother’s Day”… and it can. At least, it can feel like it is…and that will …
Last week was one of those weeks. You know, the kind in which you feel like you just want to GO HOME… Well, maybe that’s just me. With my whole family living in the Dominican Republic, both of my brothers having a birthday, and my best friend’s birthday on top of that, you may understand …
You probably didn’t know that April 30th to May 6 is National TV-Turnoff Week. I’m serious…really! I don’t subscribe to cable TV or miss it the least bit. We get DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs at the library FOR FREE and we watch them happily together. Sometimes I rent a romantic comedy and treat myself after …
As I start writing this post, I don’t know where I am really going. I may surprise you…and myself. I have recently been attracting a lot of information about marriages that last over 50 years. It seems like a formula and not a matter of being “soul-mates.” I saw a cute picture in which the …
I recently got an ad in the mail in the form of a survey. It is a compilation of questions about everything from decisions my parents made to my own decisions as a mother, and in between, all kinds of decisions I’ve made as an adult woman. This assessment is supposed to be mailed back …