Parenting Passionate Mom

Learn to Love Your Child with Passion

 

If you are here because of our iMOM Operation Summer Lovin’ for Moms and Kids–Welcome! This week the Operation Summer lesson to learn is about being passionate about our kids.

I was and am passionate about loving, protecting, nurturing, and training my children. But in one particular case, I missed an opportunity to use my passion to nurture and train because I was unperceptive about what I needed to be passionate about.

It was one of my bigger perception misses.

I have a child… who was always so easy, so compliant, and so adored for good behavior that it never crossed my mind that he could be anything less than perfect. At the same time that this perfect one was morphing into a teenager, I became distracted by another child we had just adopted. The new addition to the family was justifiably in need of a lot of attention, and I gave it, passionately. The other children’s needs paled in comparison, and I became unperceptive of those needs. I totally missed what was going on in my quiet child, and I never gave it a thought. I forgot to ponder because I was unperceptive. I couldn’t be passionate about his needs because I was unaware that there was a need.

Years later . . . such guilt. Such passion and tears at the kitchen table, head in hands—you get the picture. I eventually perceived what I had failed to observe and therefore lacked the passion to correct. We all make mistakes; I can attest to that.  Don’t make mine–learn from them!  Our focus for week 1 of Operation Summer Lovin’ is passion and the lesson to learn this week is…

A lack of perception can be a deterrent to passion 

Conversely, proficient perception can drive passion

This summer take your passion and put it into action—after you have perceived and pondered what to take action about!

How does a mom become adept at perceiving and pondering all year long, school in and school out, in sickness and in health, until college do us part?  (Actually, you will probably ponder more when your kids are in college because there is not much opportunity to perceive!)  Stayed tuned for iMOM’s Operation Summer Lovin’ Lesson to Learn Week 2 – Perception and Week 3 – Ponder.  If you have not signed up for Operation Summer Lovin’ for Moms and Kids you can find out more here!

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