Do you feel like your child's behavior has taken center stage in your life? I've been there.

All too often when our children need something, we put ourselves on the backburner.

I lived on the back burner.  And the fire was on!

It was getting to the point where if I wanted to do something simple like take a shower or eat, I would check to see if anyone else needed anything first. 

And of course, they did.  They all did.  I mean, I had trained them to always need something.

So that led to two issues.

One, anything and everything that I wanted to do had to wait.  Most times, they did not happen at all.

So yeah, sometimes I would be dying to have a good old shower or feeling like I am going to pass out from hunger but I would be doing something else that needed to be done.

I needed a serious change.

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Two, my daughter the mastermind genius grew to use this to her advantage.  So, she would act out on purpose just to get me to stop whatever I was doing and focus on her.

She would create elaborate stories containing problems that I had to find a solution for because she knew I just couldn't help it. I had to solve the problem.

But worse of all.  I was showing my daughter that as a woman, I did not matter.

What I wanted did not matter.

How I felt did not matter.

Being happy just did not matter.

I just did not matter.

I stopped working.  I talked all about things I wanted to do but never accomplished them.  I stopped taking care of myself.  My hair was always a mess. I even stopped going out of the house.  Quite frequently I would look up some days and realize that I had been in the house for three weeks!

Was this the lesson that I wanted my daughter to learn?

Every day when she came home from school, she had a new or ongoing behavior that had to be dealt with.

Every day I was on the couch waiting to address the behavior.

Sometimes she would ask me what I had done that day.  

And it was the same stuff all the time.  In other words, I did nothing.

I had to take responsibility.  Jazzy's behavior had taken over my life? No, I had made Jazzy's behavior along with the rest of my family's needs and wants my mission.  

It was my purpose.

My purpose?????

Sad.

I also had to face the facts.  

I was depressed.

I decided that something needed to be done.   

I had to rebuild myself.  I had to take care of myself.  I had to invest in my own happiness. My own goals. My own needs and desires.

I had to make myself a priority. 

That was hard.  I know you feel me, Mom.

But below, I have provided the plan I designed to pull myself up off the floor and become a great example for my daughter.  

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We always hear that old saying, "You can't expect to take care of others if you don't take care of yourself".  I can say that I totally understand what that means now.  So put a plan together for yourself first, Mom.  Then put a plan together for your child.  You'll find that you will be much more successful and happier to boot.

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