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Hi yall! I’m a single mom and a former spanker + screamer + shamer. I was the epitome of tough love parenting, I was EXTREME…I was a tiger 🐅mama.
🌱🌱🌱Today, I'm a tiger mama in recovery. If I can turn a new leaf so can you! 🌱🌱🌱
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I love sharing the JOY and realities of parenting. I want to share my own personal growth journey to show how I strive to be the best version of myself and how you can too.
I share the ups and downs of my journey towards healthy, intentional living + parenting, and ways I invite more ease + joy into my life (…and some silly videos along the way!).
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MaarteMami
One of the things I'm most grateful for is how I was able to save our relationship and turn it around.
Prior to - best believe the shaming, spanking and punishments left no room for trust...only room for my control and his fear.
We have to be intentional about cultivating a fruitful, positive, loving and strong connection with our kids...what else would they stick around for once they're adults, if not for that?
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Hi! 👋 I'm Nikki, a former spanker + shamer, here to help you parent differently. If I can turn a new leaf, so can you. It's never too late! 🌱
Thank you for being on this journey with me. The work continues. 🙏🏽
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MaarteMami
I didn’t stop yelling overnight. It takes work to unlearn decades of learned behavior.
While we do the work, let's teach our babies how:
🌱to hold us accountable
🌱they deserve to be treated
They will take this standard of respect into the world.
The work continues. 🌱
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Hi! 👋 I'm Nikki, a former spanker + shamer, here to help you parent differently. If I can turn a new leaf, so can you. It's never too late! 🌱
Thank you for being on this journey with me. The work continues. 🙏🏽
🌱SAVE TO REFER BACK TO THIS LATER.
🌱SHARE TO HELP ME SPREAD THE WORD.
🌱LET ME KNOW IN THE COMMENTS IF THIS WAS HELPFUL
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MaarteMami
maybe this'll free someone today.
I used to care so much, too much. To the point that I would be trembling from embarrassment, anxiety, nervous energy, or irritation - some nights I'd lose sleep over incidents.
Ain't 👏🏽 nobody 👏🏽 got 👏🏽the 👏🏽 time 👏🏽 for 👏🏽 that!!
Yall - I know how easily this stuff can consume you, we can't let it. There's too much joy to be had to waste our energy and time.
So much power and love is lost when we value others' perception, judgments and comfort over our kids, they deserve to come first.
I choose to commit to our relationship, our connection, his needs, his sense of self-worth + his joy...because that's what truly matters.
One childhood, one life - let's make the best of it.
What can you give up and let go of today to free you and your child?
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MaarteMami
Tell me why one day I found myself berating and humiliating my then 7 year old for “disrespecting" his cousin's boundaries?
l'il tell you why we do these things:
-Trauma
-Generational cycles
- Limited tool boxes, resources, knowledge
-Lack of self-care
-We gotta get our mental right
-We just don't got the time for another way
What'd I miss?
I hurt my son bad with my words. The IRONY of my lesson on kindness and respect.
The struggle is real but so is the progress.
Dead these cycles with me...let's keep doing the work. 🌱
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It's never too late! 🌱
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MaarteMami
Get curious, not furious.
Not sure where to start with connection? Start with CURIOSITY.
Best believe this moment, added some coin to our connection bank. Difficult moments, mistakes - are all opportunities for connection.
Even though my son may have been angry at me initially, he channelled our connection and fell back on that to call me out.
Thank you for being on this journey with me. The work continues. 🙏🏽
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MaarteMami
Today I’m sharing the 3 THINGS I do that gets my son willingly sharing about his school day, everyday.
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