In this super-informed, super-aware, super-self-analyzing world we live in, it’s easy to doubt every move we make as mothers. Stop doubting what you do with your children. When I had my first baby, I did not read blogs. There was no Pinterest. I did every thing based on instinct. Years later, I started to read parenting books and I learned phrases like “Attachment parenting” and thought, “Oh that’s what I was doing!” It was pretty interesting to learn there was a whole movement involved with how I’d raised my babies. But when I was in the thick of it? I had no idea.
Sometimes I think we need to go back to those days.The days of no one judging how you raise your children. I’m all for learning and bettering ourselves, and arming ourselves with information. I’m a homeschool mom! I write a blog! But I also want to remember to parent by instinct. The basis of my decisions should not come from articles or infographics, or what the mom blogger I admire does and neither should how you raise your children. It should come from the instinct God put in me. To love my children. To find out what makes them tick. To meet their needs. To lead them to God. That’s the good stuff of motherhood.
All that other stuff? It’s just icing. Take it or leave it.
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This article originally appeared at Angela-Mills.com, published with permission.
