Patience has to be one of the toughest challenges of motherhood. It’s so hard to repeat yourself time after time, to not show the frustration that you’re feeling, and to remember the bigger picture. If the togetherness of Spring Break is starting to wear you down some, try this.
There’s one tip we keep coming across in all of our Patient reading: COUNT TO TEN.
It’s pretty self-explanatory. Typically, we react because our emotions and adrenaline are high. If we can just pause for 10 seconds, our reaction is so much different. One of the articles we read said that if you count out loud, at least your kids will learn to RUN before you get to 10.
