Apr 28, 2025 | Balance, Business, Mastery, Mompreneur, Patience
Parenting is beautiful — and sometimes maddening. Mastering patience is a whole other level when life gets crazy.
Whether you’re dealing with a toddler meltdown, a moody preteen, an unhappy client, or just the everyday messiness of life, patience can feel like it’s in short supply. Trust me, you’re not alone!
In this post, I’ll share my personal experiences, what I’ve learned about managing patience, and actionable steps you can take to stay cool, even when chaos reigns.
Why Is Patience So Hard?
Impatience is usually triggered by two things:
- Your own mood (how you’re feeling physically and emotionally)
- The environment around you (how busy, loud, or overwhelming things are)
As mompreneurs, we’re constantly juggling kids’ emotions, household tasks, meals, bills, pets, and even business(es). It’s no wonder we run short on calm!
5 Actionable Steps to Strengthen Your Patience
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Manage Your Mood First
Before you can guide your kids calmly, you have to check in with yourself.
- Ask yourself daily, “How am I feeling today?” If you’re cranky or stressed, take five minutes to breathe, meditate, or just sit quietly.
- Why it works: It puts you back in control of your reactions.
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Plan and Brain Dump
When your schedule feels overwhelming, your patience will, too.
- Use a planner to map out your day and write down tasks cluttering your mind.
- Bonus: Help kids plan their day too, using checklists or visuals.
- Why it works: Getting things out of your head creates mental space and lowers stress.
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Identify Your Triggers
Recognize specific situations that test your patience — like interruptions during your “me time.”
- If reading, working, or exercising is your sacred space, schedule it when interruptions are least likely (like after kids’ bedtime).
- Why it works: Managing triggers proactively prevents many meltdowns — theirs and yours!
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Teach (and Model) Emotional Awareness
Children don’t automatically know what their emotions mean — we have to teach them.
- Talk openly about feelings. Use phrases like: “I see you’re angry. That’s okay. Let’s talk about it.”
- Bonus: Validate their emotions first, then guide their behavior.
- Why it works: When kids feel seen and understood, emotional outbursts often shrink.
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Have House Rules — and Follow Through
Consistency is key to raising respectful kids.
- Create house rules together with your children, and explain the “why” behind them.
- Follow through with consequences calmly — no empty threats!
- Why it works: Predictability helps kids feel secure and teaches real accountability.
A Final Thought on Patience
Some days will still be hard — and that’s okay!
One of my mantras is: “Some days are better than others.“
Be gentle with yourself. Patience isn’t about being perfect — it’s about showing up, trying again, and sometimes, faking it ‘til you make it (thank you, Guy Kawasaki, for that great quote: “Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.”)
You’re doing better than you think. And remember, every day is a new opportunity to show patience — not just with your kids, but with yourself.
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Mar 10, 2025 | Business, Mompreneur, Patience, Struggle
Today’s topic touches on something we all struggle with as moms and entrepreneurs: patience—or rather, the challenges that make patience seem like a superpower we have to summon daily. Whether it’s managing your kids’ emotions or juggling business tasks, staying calm can feel like an uphill battle.
The Early Stages: Easier, But Not Without Its Hiccups
The baby stage can feel like a bit of a breeze. Babies just eat, sleep, poop, and cry sometimes—but their needs are simple, and they don’t talk back (yet!). It’s when they hit around two to five years old that things start to change. And for me, the “terrible twos” weren’t as bad as people made them out to be. Instead, I found that three, four, and five were the tougher years, particularly with emotions running high.
It’s fascinating how differently boys and girls express emotions. My son, for example, was more emotional than my girls at younger ages. As they get older, though, I saw my five-year-old girls become more emotional, while my son, who is a teen now, deals with hormonal changes that bring out a new level of emotional challenges.
The Emotional Rollercoaster
The key thing to remember is that kids are learning emotions—they don’t even know what they’re feeling half the time. They can’t identify “I’m angry” or “I’m sad,” and it’s our job as parents to help guide them through understanding and managing those feelings.
A live attendee echoed this sentiment, noting that her boy seems to be more complicated than her girls. He flips from emotion to emotion quickly, which can be exhausting, especially when you don’t always see it coming. But with the right tools and guidance, we can help them handle it.
Impatience—A Parent’s Struggle
Being a busy mom and entrepreneur, impatience sneaks up when I’m stretched too thin. Whether it’s handling client meetings, business deadlines, or managing homeschool for my kids, everything can feel overwhelming. Mood is a huge factor—if I’m in a bad headspace or tired, I have less capacity to deal with tantrums, spills, or sibling arguments.
So what’s my solution? Planning. I started using a planner religiously, mapping out both my day and my kids’ activities. It’s not just for business, but for household and personal tasks, too. This helps me feel in control and alleviates that mental load, especially when I need to focus on my business while making sure my kids are occupied and thriving.
Raising Teens: A Whole New Level of Patience
Teenagers want to assert their independence, sometimes by talking back or challenging boundaries. The live attendee had to take the hard step of removing privileges when her daughter became disrespectful. It was tough, but necessary to teach responsibility and respect. With my son, we try to discuss what’s going on, how he’s feeling, if there’s a solution or a consequence that may fit the behavior happening.
Following through with consequences is one of the hardest things to do as a parent. It’s heartbreaking, but kids need consistency, and they need to understand that respect is earned. This also applies in business. Whether you’re dealing with clients or partners, respect and clear boundaries are key to maintaining healthy relationships.
What Helps You Stay Patient?
For me, I’ve found that taking time for self-care—like reading a chapter or two in my book after the kids go to bed—recharges my energy. It’s about finding that little sliver of the day where I can do something for myself.
What triggers your impatience? Is it the overwhelming to-do list, sibling rivalry, or something else? I’d love to hear your thoughts!
Closing Thoughts: Learning to Be More Patient
Remember, some days will be better than others. “Patience,” as Guy Kawasaki says, “is the art of concealing your impatience.” As parents, and especially as moms in business, sometimes we need to fake it till we make it. Being patient doesn’t mean never feeling frustrated—it just means taking a breath, planning, and making sure we show up for ourselves and our kids as best we can.
Let’s keep the conversation going! Drop a comment below about what makes you lose patience and how you regain it.
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Apr 22, 2024 | Business, Family, Losing, Mompreneur, Patience
Imma start by saying I’m a pretty patient person. And try really hard to be understanding.
But kids coming at you from three different directions with three different personalities and knowing which buttons to press added to the daily stresses sometimes get the best of me.
I have all the tools to keep my cool, and still sometimes I lose my patience.
We do better, we try harder, and we watch for the triggers… but life also happens.
So, I apologize, reflect, and let them know I love them, and sometimes I get overwhelmed by all the things.
You know what? When they lose it, they know that while we all know it’s unacceptable behavior, it happens, it’s safe, and we will talk about how we might help them not get to that level next time.
Mommy makes mistakes and is learning just as they are too.
My youngest had a fit of epic proportions the other night because sister used the charger she wanted, and it was her fault her kindle was going to die because she didn’t like the color of the other charger and mommy said she chose not to plug it in so now it’s mommy’s fault too and she doesn’t like this family anymore and, and, and…
When I told her I love her, she screamed No, No, No because I was not participating in her anger the way she expected. Being met with love and understanding was NOT helping her maintain her frustration.
And yet, we moved forward, she showered and proceeded to give hugs to everyone and say how much she loves us and was sorry for her behavior. She also ended up plugging her kindle into the pink charger, but that’s not the point.
Being able to make mistakes, learn from them, be guided through them, and not be shamed for going through the experience is wonderful.
The same could be said for business. We make mistakes, we learn from them, we find guidance to get through some of them, and we should not be shamed for going through the experience.
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