Confrontation to Restoration

Surviving Middle School: Foundation laying

My children are in the most dreaded season of their lives: Middle School and High School. It's hard, it's volatile, and it emotionally exhausting for everyone involved. Many moms struggle with middle school. One reason can be that they never dealt the pain of their middle school experience, we have moms reliving the trauma of middle school, and children trying to survive it. It can turn into a mess and our children can feel isolated and alone or disengaged. I want to help you, help them survive middle school. I have two daughters and one is a freshman in highschool, the other is a sixth grader and I can tell you I was not prepared for girls in middle school and my eldest barely survived it. I have moms who ask me how to survive it and this whole series is my take on what you can do to help you kids survive middle school. There are three questions I ask my girls everyday when they get in the car. 1. How was your day? 2. Who did you sit with at lunch? 3. Who is dea...

Three Perspectives to Help us Live In Purpose

There is no harder job than public service in any capacity, but especially the healthcare profession. As a nurse, I live in a problematic place daily. In my position, I am in between management, government, doctors, patients, and families. I live in the middle of every single statute, and here is where I have to serve people and bring them excellent care. It is so easy to lose yourself in the demands that everyone is making on you, to lose your identity in trying to please every single power that is telling you what you can and can't do, but I have learned how to shift my perspective in the midst of every single power telling me what I have to do. I am still Cassie as I follow JHACO policies, I am still Cassie as I am filling out government-mandated documentation, I am still Cassie when I am meeting my management productivity standards, and I am still Cassie when I am dealing with patients and families. Who I am does not change because my who ...

Surviving Middle School: Social Skills

I want to talk to you about one of the hardest things your daughters will deal with. Petty social environments. I remember once someone was hurting my daughter socially and being a momma bear, I wanted to go into Defcon 5 mode. I think every mom has been there, we have felt the hurt of social aggression, especially if we have daughters. I had felt social agression when I was growing up, but it wasn't until I was in women's ministry that I heard the term social aggression. What is Social Aggression? Social aggression is a form of antisocial behavior ( Burt et al., 2012 ) in which social relationships and social status are used to damage reputations and inflict emotional harm on others, and centers on behaviors such as gossiping, ostracism, and threatening to end a friendship. If your a mom of girls, it sounds like every single middle school experience right? That would be because this is the number one issue girls have....

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