{"id":1267,"date":"2009-01-12T20:23:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T01:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2009-01-12T20:23:19","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T01:23:19","slug":"where-can-i-get-some-patience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/where-can-i-get-some-patience\/","title":{"rendered":"Where can I get some patience?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not the most patient parent in the world&#8230; or even in my house sometimes. But I am working on it, as you could tell from my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/a-few-goals-for-2009\/\">2009 goals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I yell less than I used to, not that I am proud to write that. But I am trying to go with honesty here.<\/p>\n<p>Even though I may not yell, I know my frustration has to be obvious to my children, who are only 2, 5 and 7. I get irritated pretty easily, although I wish I didn&#8217;t. By the end of the day, the spilled milk, the playing with the food, the not listening (or remembering) and the arguing, among other things, really get to me.<\/p>\n<p>How do the rest of you handle that? I wish I could be kind and say &#8220;That&#8217;s okay, sweetie! Just grab a towel and help me clean up this mess. We all make mistakes.&#8221; Or &#8220;Listen better next time,&#8221; in a sweet voice.<\/p>\n<p>But instead I all too often huff, clean it up\/reprimand\/whatever.<\/p>\n<p>I know I am not reacting the way God would have me react. I know I am not following his example at all. And I know I am teaching my children poor behavior by example. And I really struggle with this.<\/p>\n<p>Any guidance out there? I don&#8217;t want to be a mean mommy. I love my children. They truly are gifts that I treaure. So why do I sometimes not treat them as such? Help!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-207\" title=\"momflower\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/momflower.jpg\" alt=\"momflower\" width=\"80\" height=\"40\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not the most patient parent in the world&#8230; or even in my house sometimes. But I am working on it, as you could tell from my 2009 goals. I yell less than I used to, not that I am proud to write that. But I am trying to go with honesty here. Even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moms-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}