M is for Mama offers advice, encouragement, and scripturally sound strategies seasoned with a little bit of humor to help you embrace the challenge of biblical motherhood and raise your children with love and wisdom.

This lovely card is printed with a gorgeous design of a monkey and a mouse making the shape of the letter 'm'. To anyone who truly believes this author’s message that working outside the home is selfish, please read Pope St. There are approximately 30 different species of mice in the world, and the most known one is the house mouse. Instead of describing how to model humility in an apology, she goes on to talk about how mothers need to focus on being more patient, gentler, etc.Though I’m sure it was not the intention of the author, it heightened my performance-driven tendencies by prescribing how I should parent like this family that *obviously* has it all figured out with their 10 children, so that I’m not a mediocre mom.

My guess would be that they’ve never fought because they know the judgement they’d be in for if they asked for her opinion seeing as she promptly begins her message that if you aren’t succeeding like her then you aren’t working hard enough, you aren’t trusting God enough, or you’re ignoring the mom guilt that is actually conviction from the Holy Spirit that you’re just a mediocre mom and you need to do better. Not responses to real people in real life, trying to be a good mother and feeling weighed down and voices a negative (or sarcastic) comment about motherhood. not that He saved us so we could depend on Him for the grace to parent regardless of how different it may look from someone else and regardless if it looks—gasp—mediocre to someone who clearly has it all figured out. Educator/author Mary Ann McCabe Riehle has motivated students and adults to follow their dreams and tell their stories.Her plants and flowers were observed with complete botanical accuracy and in the fairies themselves, she captured perfectly the unselfconscious grace of children, whom she used to sketch in her sister's school. Society seems at once to say that you either need to wallow in the difficulties or constantly strive for unattainable Instagram/Pinterest standards.

She has many tips which she always gives a good example from her own life, but fails to talk about any of the science behind her ideas to back it up. All of her examples of “mediocre” motherhood seem very much like people who need the hope and love of Jesus.Inspired by a fascination of old chromolithographic posters, 'M is for Magic' takes its inspiration from the Victorian posters that dazzled and wowed audiences across the land. I felt like all these responses to the negative culture of motherhood are actually just comments to negative social media posts.