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Opening Up and Sharing Helps Me Build My Children’s Self Worth

March 16, 2015 by Kathryn 23 Comments

Low self-esteem is something that I understand pretty well. I went through a very awkward phase in my early teens and it wasn’t until my mid-twenties that I embraced my self-worth and became the confident woman I am today. I have to admit that when I gave birth to my two boys, I hoped that I wouldn’t have to watch them struggle through self-esteem issues the way I once had. But of course, every child has issues with confidence at some point. And because I’m all too familiar with the negative effects that low self-esteem can have on a child, it’s been my mission to help my boys realize their value in the world.

If there is one lesson I have learned that has proven to be true again and again, it’s that modelling a love of self is the best way to ensure that my boys develop the same trait as they grow up. For the most part, that’s a very simple thing to do. I don’t, as a rule, speak negatively about myself. I carry myself with self-assurance. And I show the other people in my life the same respect I am accustomed to receiving, because I want my boys to know that everyone has value.

But what I’ve found most helpful for helping my boys build confidence, especially in the case of my oldest son, is sharing stories of some of my own previous struggles, and the eventual positive results. I remember one night a few years ago when doing just that helped my son conquer some social anxiety. As I was putting six-year-old Zackary to bed, he looked at me and asked, “Mom, why don’t I have a best friend?”

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Share a Little Softness this Winter by Sending a Kleenex® Brand Care Pack

January 27, 2013 by Kathryn 174 Comments

It’s the season of sniffles and this year my boys and I have already had more than our share of colds. When we’re under the weather, we spend a lot of time relaxing at home cuddled up in a blanket with hot drinks and a box of Kleenex® close by. The world’s best-selling facial tissue is the only brand that’s soft enough for my boys’ noses when they’re stuffy and I love the gentle feel of the tissue too. My skin is a little sensitive and Kleenex® is so soothing when I have a cold.

kleenex softness worth sharingNow, Kleenex® wants to give you the chance to share the softness with somebody you care about! Just purchase a specially-marked bundle of Kleenex® facial tissue and you’ll receive an exclusive Softness Worth Sharing code. Enter the code at Kleenex.ca to send somebody you love a Kleenex® Brand Care Pack absolutely free! [Read more…]

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Make Time for Family Fun and Family Sharing with Me in a Tree-Giveaway

July 5, 2012 by Kathryn 3 Comments

Me in a Tree may sound like the name of a fun game, but it’s actually a website that can help increase your family’s communication, develop interaction and keep you all organized. Sound too good to be true? You need to give it a try!

me in a tree facebook adThe biggest issue that my family has is remembering to take time for ourselves, and that’s why I especially loved the Me in a Tree Things To Do App. It allows users to search for family activities, volunteer opportunities, parenting programs and date night activities in their area and schedule them on the family calendar. The app is still under development so it doesn’t have activities for many areas yet, but I can’t wait until it’s complete. It will make scheduling family fun so much easier! [Read more…]

Filed Under: Reviews, Reviews and Giveaways Tagged With: activities, calendar, family, family activities, family sharing, family site, me in a tree, sharing, things to do, website

Getting Personal Online-Bare Your Soul or Keep it Private?

June 6, 2012 by Kathryn 17 Comments

I’ve noticed in the last few months as I attend conferences and read other blogs that there is one unified message being preached by all the “bigwigs” of the blogosphere and I’ve been hearing it over and over again. “Tell your story. Share your experiences. Let your readers know what makes you different.” It all really boils down to the same thing, no matter how you say it: Be yourself.

But here’s the thing. For some people, being yourself might mean being more private. It might mean NOT sharing your angst-filled past or your current painful struggles to your thousands of readers. For some bloggers, it may not even fit with what you want your blog to be.

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Blogger peer pressure is no different than any other type of peer pressure. It’s easy to start to feel bad when it seems like some of the biggest and most successful names in the business are continually pushing you to bare your soul and all you really want to do is share your favourite kids’ craft ideas. So what do you do when you start to feel that pressure? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Blogging, Self-Esteem Tagged With: blog sharing, Blogging, blogs, personal blog, personal posts, share online, sharing

Share and Shine

January 17, 2012 by Kathryn 2 Comments

If there is one thing that I absolutely love, it’s learning new things. I love it so much that it almost doesn’t matter what I’m learning as long as I’m learning something. And thanks to the Information Revolution, I can usually find out about anything I choose with just a few quick keywords. Yes…I am a total Google diva.

Liza Donnelly self esteem cartoonI love the fact that information about any topic is so easy to find and I am incredibly grateful that so many people took the time to share all their learning just so that other people could benefit from it. So when I see other women hiding tidbits of knowledge to themselves, it makes me think…

I believe knowledge is meant to be shared. It doesn’t matter what the knowledge is. If somebody can benefit from it, it should be passed along. But I didn’t always believe that. There was a time when I guarded my knowledge more fiercely than a Doberman guards a junkyard.

The memory that comes back to me most often is one from high school when I happened to bring a homemade snack for my lunch. I shared it with my friends and one of them mentioned that she would love to have the recipe. I smiled politely, but the only thought in my head was, “No WAY am I giving out my recipe!!”

That’s something I would never do today. After all, if I give somebody the instructions for making the same dish, does that make the dish I create any less delicious? But thinking about that time got me thinking about WHY I had been so unwilling to share my knowledge.

And the answer to that question, I soon realized, was my lack of self-esteem. I didn’t believe that I had any value. So when somebody expressed a desire for something that I knew, for something that I HAD, I felt validated. Even if I didn’t have any value, something I knew was valuable and if I kept that knowledge to myself, then nobody else would have that little grain of value that I had. Sure, I might be worthless. But I knew something that wasn’t worthless and if I was the only one that knew it then that was almost the same as me being worth something myself.

Getting over that crippling lack of self-esteem wasn’t easy. It took lots of effort, lots of tribulation and, yes, lots of learning. Today I am proud to say that I am a strong and self-confident woman and as a result, I am not only willing to share knowledge with others, I am happy to do so. In fact, if somebody asks me a question that I can’t answer, I will go and find the answer for them if I possibly can! I love helping others and I’m so glad that I’ve grown to become the type of woman that can do so without a second thought.

Wouldn’t the world be a wonderful place if everybody did the same? If we could ask anybody anything and know that they would be willing to answer, or maybe even help us find the answer? Wouldn’t the blogosphere be a better place? I like to think that the blog community is, by nature, a community that shares more freely. After all, we share our stories and ourselves on our blogs each and every day! But every once in a while I notice a return to that mindset that I saw so much of in high school, a comment or a conversation that practically screams, “Well, if you don’t know then I’m not going to tell you!” And it breaks my heart because I know that the motivation behind the attitude is that old enemy of so many women in the world, low self-esteem.

So how can a woman rid herself of that fear, that prevalent, horrifying fear that she isn’t good enough?

It isn’t easy.

But it isn’t hard either.

What worked for me was constantly telling myself that I was a wonderful person. I told myself again and again and again. When you repeat something like that long enough, it becomes a reality. But it takes time. And it takes work. And when you’re feeling depressed, hurt or inadequate, telling yourself something like that is difficult. But when you do it enough, you really do become the person you keep telling yourself you are.

And when that happens, you realize that your worth doesn’t come from what you look like, what you have or even what you know. In the end, your worth is maybe just measured by whether or not you shine a little bit more light into the world.

Let’s light up the world together. We all have gifts we can share, if we’re not afraid to share them.

And when we do…we all shine.

Filed Under: Articles, Self-Esteem Tagged With: Blogging, learning, self-esteem, self-worth, sharing, women

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