Perspective

A friend posted on her blog about serving her children. Funny that she did so because I have been thinking about this a lot since I'm getting ready to go back to being a stay at home Mom for real - without extra paying jobs. I've always felt like I was a stay at home Mom since my kids didn't really go to daycare but working was getting in the way of the stay at home part.

Anyway, I am the QUEEN MOM of "if you can do it yourself, than you do it yourself." I want my children to be independent and able to do things for themselves - I don't want them going into the real world and expecting everybody to do everything for them.

BUT, I realize by doing this I've robbed them of knowing what it is to serve others. So I've been working on doing things they ask me that normally I'd say no to - pouring more apple juice, getting something for them from their room, etc.

My friend observed that it made her teen more likely to help her when she served him. Interesting. I've noticed that attitudes are a little better around here when I try to serve them - I don't do everything, I'm still the Queen Mom of Independence after all.

But I think it's worth it to serve them - I think Jesus would pour apple juice for me if I asked him nicely to do it.