Dear Mother of Tot...

Tots require endless hands on involvement. 

This can be really draining on mother-of-tot's energy, wisdom and patience-well!

  Mommy, hang in there!
It's extra-hard right now when you can't get together

 to empathize with a great source of strength and encouragement...other mothers!

Praying God grants you super-strength and patience hour by hour!

 (because I do childcare I get fresh 'reminders' of the tot-stage!

A seriously tiring and challenging stage for mom-of-tot!)

or 'dad of tot' just in case you're Mr. Mom😀 

Dear mother of tot,

Well we know it is not

A small call that you undertake

Where the battles you brave

Are with innocent babes

You love so much your heart could break

But dear little tot,

Though you like it or not

You must learn that no means no

And mother of tot,

Whether you like it or not,

You must teach them that it is so

Dear mother of tot,

What a large charge you’ve got

To train up a child in ‘the Way’

Where wee hearts and hands

With their endless demands

Sometimes drain you of words left to pray

For a ‘dear little tot’

Far too soon they are not

And the window of training will close

So, dear mother of tot

Give the best you have got

It is all you can do and God knows

Dear mother of tot

Do not, I repeat, do not

Keep a list of your fumbles and frowns

But let go at dusk’s door

What will be no more

We all learn through love’s ups and downs

…for dear, dear little tot

This mother you’ve got

Loves you more than the world times ten

And dear mother of tot

By the goodness of God

You will raise morrow’s women and men

© Janet Martin

(According to the passage below we 'older women' have
a pretty big role to play in the encouragement of our dear younger women!)

Titus 2:1-8

You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine. Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.

Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.

Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled.In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.