When Working Motherhood’s Stresses Have You Down, You Need the W.A.Y. Method
Retraining your brain like this will finally bring you happiness in the chaos.
My daughter wanted to sing a song from the Broadway show, for her third-grade talent show. But she was having trouble with some of the higher, trickier notes and struggling with some of the words. I didn’t want her to mess up, so I chose the “perfect” song for her: “Doe, a Deer,”. She looked at me, defeated, unconvinced that she should do things my way. I switched into and commanded her to do my song. My reasoning? I’d rather her be angry at me than hurt by her friends.
