How to be a Zen Mama

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I became a Zen Mama on a trip to Boulder, Colorado. My husband and I had just finished a challenging year with two of our three children; grades had fallen, limits were being tested. The teenage years are not easy, as anyone with even one teenage child will tell you.

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Being a positive and optimistic person, I tried to find the lessons in all of our experiences and understand where we had made mistakes. I couldn’t continue to be the person I’d become overthe summer and the new school year. I was a frantic, nagging mother worried about my kids in this modern world with text messaging and Facebook and our demanding culture that wants them to be volunteers, super athletes and ivy league students.

 

Yet, at my job as a preschool teacher, I felt more Zen-like, giving out pearls of wisdom to those overly concerned parents of my 3-5 year old kids.

 

I decided at that point that I had my own life to live and needed to let my children livetheir lives. If I let go, maybe we’d all be happier. I decided to combine the two ideas: the frantic mother and the Zen like teacher, and become one, become a “Zen Mama”.

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Hopefully this blog will be a teacher for you. None of us brings a child into this world with a degree in parenting. 

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Oh, and by the way, you can apply these lessons to other parts of your life: Zen Wife, Zen Daughter, Zen Sister, Zen Friend, Zen Co-worker...you get the picture!

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