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Week three of the six part series: Essentials every Mom Needs to be the Best Mom for their Kids.

If you missed the other two, you can find them here and here. 

I’m so excited for today’s topic!  Once I adopted this in my own life, I saw a huge change quickly.  I can't wait to share it with you.

Lets talk about ditching the “should”.

 So, what am I talking about here? 

You know the phrases…

• My husband should help out around the house.
• My kids should know by now to pick that up.
• My friends should call me on my birthday.
• My mother should want to watch my kids.

Don’t tell me you haven’t said something like this before.  I know you all have! And I have too!

I want you to see that we are talking about humans.  We are expecting these humans to take a certain action (i.e. helping, picking up, calling, wanting).  Basically, we, in our minds, are telling these humans ...

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Confidence.

Ha. 

Let me share something with you. I was a hesitant and shy girl growing up.

Confidence was something I only dreamed about. I had NO idea what it felt like. To me, it meant, putting on a mask of self-assurance in hopes that people would like me.

When I looked around at the people that I thought were confident, I saw women that walked in this world with ease. They didn’t care what people said about them.

Oh, how I longed for not caring about other people’s opinions! I wanted that confidence.

 Honestly, looking back, I was an unconfident mess growing up. Whenever a decision was to be made, I just took what other people told me I should do or what they said I was good at, and went with that. One thing I was really good at... looking like I knew what I wanted and what I was doing.  But the whole time I would be scanning the people around me wondering,

“What do they think ...