Living In The Moment For Your Children is Important

/ Blog, Homemaking Season, Homeschool Season, Parenting Season / By Lyudmila

Living in the moment is one of the most important things you can do for your children and for yourself.

That is one of the hardest things for me to do. As a mother, I am either thinking about my mistakes from the past, things I have to do or deal with, or worrying about what will happen in the future.

I want to tell myself to “STOP” and just live in the moment. To enjoy the time that I am living in right now with my children and my husband.

Living In The Moment…

Most of the time that is easier said than done.

My mind is constantly busy. For me, there is no off switch. There is no magic button that I can press to put my thoughts on hold. I have to be intentional with living in the moment.

This really hit me hard over the past weekend. My second oldest daughter had her high school graduation ceremony but I wasn’t fully there. There had been so much going on over the past month that I hadn’t been able to deal with everything fully. I was physically, emotionally, and mentally exhausted. When that happens, I have a really hard time living in the moment.

This is when my regrets stack up.

I keep telling myself I will deal with it later. But what I really have to do is deal with it as soon as it happens. Otherwise, it follows me around and takes up space in my mind and takes up my attention.

My children sure do notice when I am not fully paying attention to them. There have been times when my teen daughters have come to tell me something or to show me something and based on my reaction they could notice that I wasn’t fully listening.

Why? Because of all the things going through my mind.

This is where dealing with what is on our mind and being intentional about paying attention is so important. Or else, living in the moment will be so hard to do.

Something that may help is to keep a journal and to write about all that is going on in your life. I know this is something I have done in the past. Maybe you need to keep a notebook to jot down what is on your mind or what you have to do so that you don’t have to remember everything. This helps me a lot when I remember to do it.

I know I need to get more organized but that is a topic for another time.

I want to be there for my children physically, emotionally, and mentally. To see the world through their eyes and to delight in their discoveries.

I want to enjoy life at the moment and not worry so much about the future. Yes, we live in a crazy world right now and it can make a mother have a head full of grey hair just thinking about it. But our worrying cannot change the future.

I know I have my work cut out for me but I am determined to live in the moment for my family and myself.