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Sometimes it can be hard to find the right words to show Mom how much you appreciate her. Mother's Day is Sunday, and a group of Austin writers and storytellers is taking to the stage this week with their personal stories of motherhood, mothering, and being mothered.
Thursday night's performance of "Listen to Your Mother Austin" is sold out. However, you can find more information about the stories, videos, and future performances at listentoyourmothershow.com/austin.
I was watching a tv show with my husband the other day. We were watching Last Man Standing. This particular episode begins when everyone comes home and we see that Great-Grandpa Bud is babysitting Boyd and he tells everyone else that Boyd did very well, except the one time when he spanked Boyd for not listening, but Boyd recovered and they had a great time.
A little later Kristen (mom) ends up swatting Boyd after he runs out in front of a car in the parking lot. It was an instant reaction and she's devastated afterwards. She tries to cover it up by bribing him with sweets, trying to hide it from Ryan (dad), but it all comes out at grandma's and grandpa's. Ryan starts to get mad at Kristen as Boyd watches the argument. Kristen tells Boyd to go upstairs, but he doesn't listen. Instead he starts to get mouthy with her, then suddenly, Mike (grandpa) says with his authoritative voice, "Listen to your mother!" Boyd hightails it upstairs and then real talking began.
The moment that Mike says those words, I started ugly crying. As a mom, I think that kids tend to misbehave for their moms more than anyone. Part of it can be because we don't always follow through with our threats, "If you do this, then..." "Don't do this, or...". It's not that we don't want to follow through, but we get exhausted, especially if the kids haven't listened to us all day.
My youngest and I have been doing school in the attic. There have been days when he just doesn't want to listen to me or to the helpers/teachers in his specials. Should I be surprised that it's the women he doesn't listen too? I can ask him all day to do something, but if he doesn't want to listen to me, he won't. However, when I'm on my last nerve, I'll message my husband and just his foot steps on the stairs snap my youngest back into action.
The thing that my kids really respond to, is when my husband tells them, "Listen to your mother."
It puts us back onto equal footing. It reinforces that dad is in charge and SO is mom. It tells them to listen to me the first time. Not the second, not the third, but the first. It tells them that dad values me and that we're a team.
Dads... It's really important to institute that, too. It starts with you. Are you listening to your wife/partner? When she asks you something, do you respond right away or does she have to ask you to do it again? Answer her questions, communicate with her, show your kids that she's important and what she has to say is meaningful.
However, with great power comes great responsibility, so moms, make sure that you're not asking too much, either. I want us to be listened to and respected, but I do know that some people, when given an inch, they take a mile. Make sure that you're not being unreasonable in your requests.
Dads, your wife/partner isn't your mom/slave, either. Yes, you may work long days, but so has she. It may not be the same type of work, we're not comparing here, but act like an adult and not another son. Pick up after yourself because little eyes are watching you.
Most importantly, share the mental load. Make sure the kids are respecting both of you. Come up with a parenting agreement that works out for both of you. Don't belittle or degrade the other; show each other respect. Reinforce that both of you are in charge and see the balance come back into your lives.
?Biblical, personal, engaging, and thought provoking are just a few words that come to mind when reading this wonderful book! The Virgin Mary truly is our BLESSED Mother, and listening to her words in Scripture can help us to become blessed, too. Gary Zimak has done a great service for both Catholics and non-Catholics in offering a book that unpacks the biblical words of Mary in a very conversational and easy-to-follow style. The reflection questions and points to ponder at the end of each section will be of great benefit to the reader, too! I highly recommend this book!?
?When I was given an opportunity to review Listen to your Blessed Mother, I hesitated only because of the full plate I was dealing with at the time. When I finally dove into this wonderful book, I realized that Gary Zimak has written a beautiful love story about our Blessed Mother and one which needs to be shared with everyone. His description of his growing love of Mary from his childhood to the powerful impact her intercession has had on his life as an adult is riveting. His use of scripture about the Blessed Mother and the few words spoken by her helps the reader share in her life and purpose. The reflection questions at the end of each chapter challenge us to grasp the role of the Blessed Mother in our own lives. I strongly recommend this book!?
?Jesus is our brother, and so his Father is our Father, his mother is our mother. How sad that so few Christians know the perfect maternal love that God has given us in his family. Jesus tells us beloved disciples, ?Behold your mother.? What a sweet command! And Gary Zimak has made it sweeter still.?
?Gary has given us great insights about our Blessed Mother Mary in Scripture which makes this not only a wonderful book for Catholics but also a great resource for evangelizing those outside the Church. This is definitely a book you can share with your evangelical friends to help them come to know and love our Mother Mary.?
Virtually nothing is known about the role that tone of voice may play in motivating interactions. Herein, we use an experimental approach to explore for the first time how the same directive instructions ("Do well at the play") have different effects on adolescents depending on the motivational tone of voice used to convey these instructions. A sample of 1,000 adolescents aged 14-15 years was randomly assigned to hearing semantically identical messages that were expressed by mothers of adolescents with controlling, autonomy-supportive, or neutral tones of voice. Results suggest that the way speakers modulated their voice when intoning the same verbal messages affected adolescents' emotional, relational, and behavioral intention responses. Listening to mothers making motivating statements in an autonomy-supportive, relative to a neutral, tone of voice elicited more positive and less negative emotions, increased closeness, and intentional behavioral engagement among adolescents, while the opposite set of findings emerged when adolescents listened to mothers making motivational statements in a controlling tone of voice. These findings elucidate how mothers' spoken communications can impact adolescents, with implications for the quality of parent-child relationships, adolescents' well-being, and engagement. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
My mom claims that even as a baby, I looked like a doctor. She was like a lot of Jewish mothers back then, presuming medical careers for their children well before they had a say in the matter (or anything else).
My older sisters say she spent endless hours with me while they were in school. But my mother worked at home at the time, helping my dad with his insurance business, and I was usually playing with blocks, drawing or listening to her collection of Doris Day and 1950s Broadway musical records. In our moments together, my mother taught me to write and to read Little Golden Books.
Mary is our mother too. And she teaches us. Just as Jesus listened to and was obedient to Mary, we should now listen to and obey her. Through many apparitions, Our Lady has spoken to various visionaries and imparted her motherly advice and counsel, not only for them but for the entire world. The messages Mary spoke are meant for all believers.
Think about your childhood and all the many things your parents taught you. Is there one thing your mother said, or an instruction or counsel she gave, that you cling to even to this very day? Spend a few moments thanking God for your mother, for the gift of life, for her love and concern. You might even wish to call your mother today and check in with her and tell her that you were thinking about her. Or, if she has passed on to eternal life, offer a prayer for her soul.
Susanna compared the Puritan religion to the Church of England and decided to convert to the Church of England. Religious freedom and equality for women! Listen to your mother! How we could benefit from a plurality of thought that allows people to follow their heart around matters of faith.
Would that we would be more intentional about Christian instruction of our children in our homes, our neighborhoods and our churches. Listen to your mother! Our future church depends on the work we do today. How I appreciate the churches that are providing Sunday school on line right now. Everyone can be ministering to young people in some way.
She died at age 73 and requested that at the moment of her death, a psalm would be sung. She died as she lived, in service and praise to God in all the seasons of her life. May we who are seasoned follow her example of encouragement for our younger leaders in the church. Listen to your mother! Experienced voices can assist greatly in the work.
That sounds dramatic. I haven't written about it here since our April 26 Tennessee Performing Arts Center (600) performance, which drew a national record-breaking crowd of more than 600 attendees. I haven't written about it because I'm still processing the impact of the experience. One of us was gifted at into putting it into words. We each came forward on stage with an honest voice about motherhood. It took courage to be so vulnerable. And, in stepping forward, we were telling not only our stories of the beauty, beast and sleep-deprived state of motherhood, but the stories of so many other others. And telling them for the first time in such an event in our city. (A city that loves a good story and knows how to tell a fine one and enjoy a fine one.) We talked of life-threatening cancer discovered at the birth of an only child, of not being a mother, of birthing multiples, about overhearing one's offspring having sex in the upstairs bedroom, about raising a child as a single parent, and pining for an empty nest.
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