Raising a family? Things can get crazy. Let’s chat.
I want to introduce myself and this blog to those of you who stop by looking for a community of encouragement and tips for the young families who feel like their world is too crazy. I am on a 12-month journey researching and sharing ideas that might help young families reduce the amount of craziness in their world.
I’ve raised a family of my own and am now watching my amazing children raise their young ones. For all practical purposes, I was a single parent with a solid support system while raising my family, so I remember those days when the night comes, and you may wonder if you did anything right.
I have a heart for young families and the fight they have to juggle work, children, and their own needs. If there is anything I can do to help find not only more peace for their family, but also identify some techniques that might help them be more successful in achieving their goals, I want to contribute.
Like anything, families are all unique so please feel free to take anything that sounds like it might work for you and leave the rest behind. Please be open to trying new ideas, and if they don’t work, just toss them out. Navigating raising a family, whatever that looks like for you is extremely complicated and time-consuming and I simply want to help take ideas from other sources and pass them on to you.
Let’s have an honest discourse about what worked and didn’t work for you as our whole purpose is to improve all of our quality of lives.
Once a week I’ll toss out an idea or concept that I’ve gotten from my own reading and I’m counting on you to let me know how things worked, how you modified them to work for your particular family, and how we can improve on ideas. I believe in the concept that “it takes a village” and I want to offer my support to your family.
I look forward to going through the year with you and hope we can identify ways to help make your families a little more effective and a lot happier.
Thank you for joining me and please feel free to give honest feedback. Being real with each other will be the key to refining ideas from something that sounds good on paper, to something that can really make a change in your family’s functioning.
Let’s see what happens and be blessed!
Gail