5 Conversations You Must Have With Your Daughter

Tonight I facilitated a new study for moms of daughters called, "5 Conversations You Must Have With Your Daughter." It was a fun night with lots of great discussion. The book, by Vicki Courtney, is one of my favorites to date on parenting. She is also in the process of writing a book for moms of boys too. (We'll read that one next!) Vicki shares some really important messages or "conversations" that moms should make sure they have with their daughters over the course of their growing up. Each conversation can be broadened as your daughter grows and changes. My favorite statement from the book is:

God is looking for imperfect mothers raising imperfect daughters in an imperfect world - who are desperately dependent on a perfect God for the results.

To me, those are really strong words to raise not only our daughters by, but our sons as well. We, as moms, have a tendency to struggle to be perfect, but God doesn't want us to be perfect. He just wants us to be DESPERATELY DEPENDENT on Him to raise our children. This imperfect mom can certainly attain to that, but perfection, I don't think so.

Since this blog is mostly about motherhood, I thought it only fitting to write today, Mother's Day. As a mom of many, I always find it interesting to hear how everyone thinks that because I have so much mommy experience, that they, with only one, two, or three children, couldn't possibly hold a candle to me. So here I am telling you, young moms, moms of one, moms of two or more, that I don't know it all, I don't claim to know it all, and I truly mess up quite more (8x more in fact) than you might think. In fact, just like with a newly saved soul, who is so wonderfully on fire for God, is contagious to us more mature christians, so are some of you moms of not-so-many, encouraging to a mom like me. I love being reminded of those exciting times that I have forgotten in the chaos of my own everyday life. I love watching young moms capture those teachable moments with their little ones. Though the Word of God tells us "older women to teach the younger women," let us not forget that sometimes, its "out of the mouths of babes" that we can learn a great deal too! Thank you moms of a few, young moms, and moms to be, of reminding this old mom, what it means to love on your children! Keep up the good work, I can learn a lot from you too!!! Happy Mother's Day!!!