My lovely friend Megan awarded me the Versatile Blogger Award, entitling every person reading this blog to seven random facts about me.
- I am pretty tall (just over 5'10"), and I read some research a while back that indicated that tall women have more testosterone than shorter women. This is correlated with taller women bearing fewer children.
- Could be the tall girl hormones, but my current occupation of being a full-time mum is as much a surprise to me as it is a blessing. I know some girls grow up looking forward to having kids, but I just wasn't one of them.
- Half the days I wake up shaking my head at the unlikeliness of me being in charge of three small children that day.
- The other half of the days I'm merely asleep until I've emptied the potty my older children use overnight or changed the first poo-scented diaper of the day.
- This surprise has the useful effect of reminding me that I don't know what I'm doing. Fortunately I read a lot of research-based books about everything from breastfeeding to child psychology.
- I'm currently reading How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk. I'm intentionally going through the book very slowly, so that I can apply the principles I read as I read them, and before I move on to the next concept. After several weeks, I think I'm getting the hang of the concepts I learned in chapter one.
- My favourite parenting book is Shepherding a Child's Heart by Tedd Tripp. It made a huge difference to me to focus on my children's (and my!) heart issues instead of behaviour. I also feel much less emotional about disciplining my children when I think about my role as being obedient to God in the discipline I provide, rather than just trying to get the kids to do what I want. It was a revelation to me to think of discipline as my children's will vs God's will rather than my will.
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