I am so excited to tell you about this amazingly wonderful book!! I have read a great amount of mothering blogs posts, articles and books about being a mom and how important it is! This book by Christie Gardiner called You Are the Mother Your Children Need is by far one of my top five articles/books written about motherhood! I had many favorite quotes in the book, but this one really hit me. She was shairng a story about how she is in a meeting with a lot of moms and she shared something that was working with her family in regards to parenting /mothering. A lady compared her self to Christie and said she wished she was as good a mom as Christie was. This was Christie’s reply….“You are exactly what your children needed! Look at your kids! They had to have you just the way you were.”
She goes onto explain this in her book.
“The way we choose to parent is a composite of our gifts, talents, abilities, and especially our varied life experiences. If only we could see each other’s differences as assests to our parenting rather than divisions among us.”
I would for sure recommend this book to anyone that needs a motherhood lift!!
Synopsis of You Are the Mother Your Children Need
The woman you want to be . . . the one who has within her every talent, gift, and ability to be what her children need? She’s already there. She is you.
Motherhood is the toughest job you’ll ever take on: there is no interview, no job description, and no salary. When you get the position, it can be all too easy to feel underqualified and overwhelmed. But with a sweet message of encouragement, Christie Gardiner reminds women there are as many ways to be a good mother as there are mothers in this world—and there’s no one more capable of raising your children than you!
In this uplifting book, mothers are encouraged to let go of the quest for perfection and recognize the divinity within. Learn to own your strengths and weaknesses, and allow your true self to shine! With practical advice on learning to accept failure, hold on to your identity, and harness the divine help available to mothers, women will gain the confidence to embrace their uniquely perfect qualifications for the job of motherhood.
About the Author:
Christie has enjoyed participating in speaking engagements across the country where she loves reminding groups of women that with God, they are not alone and are enough. Christie’s heartfelt and quick-witted writing was first enjoyed in blog form on behalf of the Utah Jazz and Illume Gallery of Fine Art. Her performing career has spanned three decades in theater, television, film, commercials, podcasting and voiceover work. She is a longtime faculty member at the Utah Conservatory of Performing Arts where she inspires young people to increase their self-esteem through participation in the arts. She enjoys serving in her church’s youth program. In her spare time you will find Christie with her husband and children, in nature or in the yoga studio teaching a class. She makes her home in Utah and occasionally, the Oregon coast.
You Are the Mother Your Children Need, is Christie’s debut. Look for her next book, on shelves October 2017
Below is the schedule for the tour:
*March 20th: http://lisaisabookworm.blogspot.com/
*March 21st: http://www.singinglibrarianbooks.com/
*March 22nd: http://rockinbookreviews.com/, http://thethingsilovemost.com/
*March 23rd: http://mybookaday.blogspot.com/, http://katiescleanbookcollection.blogspot.com/, http://empowermoms.net/, http://ldsandlovinit.blogspot.com/
*March 24th: http://literarytimeout.blogspot.com/, http://sweetlymadejustforyou.com/, http://brooklynberrydesigns.com/
