Raising Spirited Kids

I long ago discover Martha is a spirited child! And the book Raising your Spirited Child was recommended to me but the local library didn't have it at the time I was looking for it so I didn't get around to reading it. Well I found it at a garage sale a few weeks ago and started reading it last weekend while we traveled.

Yesterday both girls were having a car nap so I was reading in the parking lot. I was reading the chapter "EXTRAVERT OR INTROVERT: FINDING THE ENERGY TO COPE" and I came to the conclusion that some days the reason Martha and I clash and I sit and try to recover and unable is because she is STRONGLY extroverted and I'm mildly introverted. I need some time alone to recharge and she needs time with me! So that leaves my energy reserves sorely depleted and it gets ugly! Now if I could just get the time to read through the book and the brain power to assimilate it all we might be able to learn to get along! There is way too much good stuff in this book! It's well written for parent's of these spirited kids as you can literally read a paragraph or two and come back to it not lost! Hmm I wonder if I can get into one of her seminars! Now I'm wanting to get a the rest of Mary Sheedy Kurcinka's books!

I suppose if I can't get my recharge time I'm going to have to start singing one of the many Steve Green kid's bible song to get me though the day. His song Without Complaining from the Album HIDE 'EM IN YOUR HEART VOL. 1 was my matra when dealing with everyday life for quite some time. Come to think of it that's when I started being able to cope with life's challanges more. Welp guess I need to work some more on my bible memory though children's music!