Daily Inspiration for Mothers

Some things need improving. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with you. - Iyanla Vanzant Affirmation: I am open to change and improvement I am doing my best and my best changes from moment to moment

We die to habits of need, dependency and control, to be reborn in reliance on Spirit - Iyanla Vanzant Affirmation: I let go and go with the flow

The father is the sun. The mother is the moon. And the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night. - Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Affirmation: I fill my child with love and light

I bargained with life for a penny and life would pay no more, however I begged at evening when I counted my scanty store. For life is a just employer, he gives you what you ask. But once you have set the wages, why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire, only to learn dismayed, that any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid - Anon. Affirmation: I relax knowing that my needs are met. Abundance flows through my life.

  You are a creative center, from which increase is given off to all - Wallace D Wattles     Affirmation: My optimism and enthusiasm for life creates optimism and resilience in my child

There's a place deep inside every single one of our hearts that knows all the answers to our biggest questions - R. Sharma Affirmation: I look within for guidance on my parenting. All the answers are inside.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands - Richard Bach Affirmation: I see my child's problem as an experience for learning and growth

You cannot be loving when you are blaming You cannot be loving when you are cricising You cannot be loving when you are judging - Oprah     Affirmation: My thoughts and words encourage, uplift and praise my child

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” — Maria Robinson Affirmation: Each new day is a new opportunity to start afresh

The good life (for your kids) is where you make the ordinary extraordinary, where you make the natural miraculous. It's where you make the everyday unique. - Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Affirmation: I rejoice in the ordinary miracles of the day  

  No, my soul is not asleep - Antonio Machado   It is awake, wide awake.   It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches,   its eyes wide open,   far-off things, and listens   at the shores of the great silence.       Affirmation: I could see peace instead of this  

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Out task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. - Albert Einstein Affirmation: I see every human being as someone's child and treat them as such

Rather than seeing a child's behaviour as the fault of a parent and therefore blaming the parents, if we could just see that children have definite behaviour tendencies from past lives and are drawn to a particular parent or parents who have unique strengths, understanding and ability to guide them. The parents' inner attitude can then change from one of embarrassment and failure to feeling that they have been blessed by God in receiving a 'challenging' child - Joyce & Barry Vissell, Models of Love Affirmation: I am the perfect parent for my child

When people point out stuff about yourself that makes you upset or angry consider yourself blessed that the spirit of life is bringing these things to your attention - Iyanla Vanzant Affirmation: My anger is a blessing that shows me what I need to work on next