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
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.
