As a wife…It took me a few years, but after I became a mom I learned how important a dad is in the picture. I knew I was important … I fed, bathed, dressed, and spent my days with my kids. Yet they needed my husband’s sense of humor. They needed my husband’s rough-housing. They needed my husband to let them try things that weren’t always safe. I realized that I didn’t have all the answers yet my husband and I made a great team.
As a mother… After I became a mom I also started volunteering and helping other people. I was trying to teach my kids how to share, how to think about others, how to do good … and I realized that the best way to teach my kids was to model it myself. I started helping teenage moms, and I invited people into our home–feeding them and mentoring them. And as I loved
them my kids saw how to love.
What about you – what have you learned as a wife? As a mother?
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One thing I’ve learned as a wife is that I don’t know the right way to do everything. If I want my husband to help, I need to accept that his way of loading the dishwasher, vacuuming the floor, or even changing a diaper is as good as my way even if it is very different. To tell him how or to go back and fix it causes him to be less likely to help in the future.