Mom ITS OK TO ASK FOR HELP! When my boys were young, John was regularly on the road preaching, and I often felt overwhelmed with motherhood. Here’s my message to young moms—it’s not a sign of weakness to ask for HELP. It’s a sign of STRENGTH.
welcome to mom’s with man I can’t even
tell you how excited I am that I
actually have my men here with me I’ve
got my youngest son Arden runaways there
you go
Arden Addison Alec who is spanked the
most and Austin so we’ve got all of my
boys and we think this would be a great
opportunity I’ve already been really
open with you guys that I did not do
everything perfectly
not even everything well but I want you
to hear from their perspective not just
my perspective so they’re all life
they’re all healthy they have all of
their limbs and fingers and toes and so
this is going to be enlightening for
everyone we want you to hear from the
boys perspective and we’ve just opened
it up that they can be vulnerable and
they can be honest so we’re going to go
for this so one of the topics were in a
cover is and anybody that once you can
go first is so what would you guys say
to a mom out there that is a single mom
maybe and she’s raising funds or a mom
that’s just feeling overwhelmed maybe
she’s got one son and she has a bunch of
daughters or she’s feeling insecure what
would be a source of encouragement that
you would give her well I’ll say some
like and just what I’ve learned growing
up is when we were young I never got the
sense that you were drowning and I know
that it’s seriously and and I know you
talked about it and stuff like that how
everyday you felt overwhelmed but as
your son and probably all of us we never
had that oppression impression that like
oh my gosh our mom is losing it oh my
gosh or mom is about the lilius or
anything like that
I never had that impression right so
yeah so I always love to just encourage
moms like the sons don’t always perceive
all the emotions that you are feeling
but you’re doing the best you can and
know that and your sons aren’t picking
up on all those cues so literally
they’re not being as hard on yourself on
on you as you maybe being on yourself
and so I just want to encourage you with
that and I thought you did a great job
mom and so and I know you felt like
there are moments where you didn’t feel
like you did a great job and so I just
want to
mom’s granted that with that maybe as
oldest I got a less filtered view but I
do there were a few times all joking
aside the thing that really stood out to
me is that you didn’t put up some kind
of facade and when you were going
through things you process those in a
healthy way most of the time with me
sometimes over prize maybe maybe
sometimes is a little too much but I
loved that you were real and you showed
us that sometimes life is messy
sometimes it’s hard and that’s okay that
doesn’t mean you quit it doesn’t mean
you take a step out just means you
persevere yeah thank you I appreciate
that yeah and I mean just on that you
know sometimes what Annette life’s messy
sometimes life’s hard yeah you know just
another thing just to speak out to the
moms and since that really yeah you’re
kind of seeing the end result that I
mean for good looking guys or not they
were mean how does good lower heavy my
identities may not see great were not
good but we just wanted to work that
into the Gulf wanting to himself on some
point or self-confident many ways around
it till no no he’s also gonna mention
soon that got now hang on no no all
right
so but what I’m trying to say with that
is you know a lot of people are kind of
seeing the end result but then knowing
that really there was a lot of mess
along the way that like yeah I mean
there are some times you know that we
got in huge arguments and things weren’t
like the prettiest thing that maybe
sometimes could see but we knew how to
fought well and we knew how to
discipline kids well I mean yes I meant
I despise your discipline you guys you
have that kid I think I think what
you’re saying is it’s not about
perfection about creating a safe
environment and growing up we all felt
like we were safe it wasn’t always
perfect but it was safe
keeper bed we were fed sometimes we were
locked in the back yard and we drank out
of a hose when I got out important that
was more so dad though that’s a
different story and it was a fenced-in
yard there were no safety concerns and I
think for the single moms for them
understanding like they don’t have to do
it alone like they have people in their
lives they have mothers that they can go
to and fathers that are father figures
and they don’t need to feel like hey
because I’m a parent and these are my
kids I know what I need to be doing is
like you know they can go they can ask
for help they can figure out hey how do
I do this how do I handle this I know
for you mom you there are times where he
had the current call people call doctor
behind yeah oh yeah I was like in the
world right yeah yeah absolutely and I
would agree with what orange said like
oftentimes even not from late 20s when
someone comes to me he’s younger than me
asking for advice I take it as a
compliment I think it very seriously and
so even with these mom’s I would reach
out to older women like and they’d be
surprised how willing other people are
to help out and so and they’re looking
for opportunities to help out and we
deprive other people those opportunities
who might not be in a season where
they’re able to lend that kind of gift
and a 100 years yeah absolutely
you
Hi it’s sounds so good just to hear this topic because I’m also a single mom of 4daugthers and really it’s hard….
Hi it’s is so good just to listen I’m a mom of 4 daughters and yes it hard really