Bette’s Blog
BETCHA You Can Become a Stress Beating Mom
Mom's have stress. It is a fact of life. The BETCHA process, a simple solution for beating stress, can calm you and help you focus more clearly on the parenting situation--or any situation. Just follow these simple steps. 1. Step One: Breathe. Your breath is the pathway to calming your mind and taming your stress. Conscious attention to your breath improves focus and brings about relaxation. [...]
Taming Tantrums: Strategies for Tempering the Tempers!
How much do you dread your child's temper tantrums? When a child melts down, it is not always easy, but always important and particularly helpful, for parents to keep their cool! So take heart. Although these moments present an unwelcome challenge, they are manageable and when handled wisely can make parenting easier as you go along. Here a a few tips for tempering the tempers! [...]
Single Mothers: The Most Valuable Players Every Day
Every day single mothers are on the scene, usually behind the scenes, doing one of, if not the, hardest job on the planet, going mostly unrecognized for their tremendous contribution to their families and communities. But last week the NBA's pick for most valuable player of the 2014 season, Kevin Durant, brought to light the value of single mothers. In an emotional testimony to his mom, [...]
Psychically Respectable and Respectfully Psychic
Have you wondered how come psychic readings have gotten a bad reputation and a bad rap? What is it about neon hands glowing from second story windows that seem to shout out "shlock!" Granted, as in every business, there is some "shlock" in the psychic business, and we could analyze the "how come," but I would like to present a respectful point of view about [...]
Full-ness of Life, Living Fully
Life is full of amazing experiences. Large, medium or small, all are big. Being aware of life's full-ness keeps me motivated, contented, excited and alive. How do you recognize your own experiences of living fully? Which ones in the past have filled you with contentment, satisfaction and aliveness? One of the times I feel most filled and alive happens, as it did last week, when [...]
Single Parents’ Day
Yesterday was single parents' day! Finally a day to honor the hard work and extraordinary parenting skill and artistry of single parents, who keep all the balls in the air to do so much for their children. It ain't easy. I have been thinking a lot about single parenting, as I always do. Having been a single mother for over 17 years, and then a [...]
The Blessing of a True Friend
Having a true friend, a real friend, is a blessing that happens once or twice in a life time. I am off to Florida tomorrow to visit my closest friend. "Friend" is not quite the right term for Risa. She has been more like a sister, a nuclear family member. Over many years of growing, changing, sharing, and moving to new locales, me north and [...]
Psychic–The Word!
I have the gift of intuition. My gift has benefitted me in many ways, some of which I have written about in my book, "Soul Mothers' Wisdom/Seven Insights for the Single Mother," which is due out later this year. I have devoted one chapter of the book to psychic development and my personal journey into the dimension of intuition. In my years in social work [...]