Today for the Parenting With Purpose series, I have one challenge for you:

In your parenting, embrace freedom from your own unreasonable expectations.

Pursue progress, not perfection!

This has been an ongoing struggle for me, starting when I was pregnant with our first baby. I read books, checked in on forums, flipped through magazines, listened to podcasts, and in general devoured anything on pregnancy and parenting I could get my hands on.

It was an exhausting endeavor. 

Today I’m sharing with you a post I wrote one night after my kids had cake for dinner and I finally realized it was okay if my kids didn’t eat the perfectly balanced diet every day. If you can relate, I’d love for you to let me know in the comments.

Let’s encourage one another in this purpose-driven but progress-focused journey and toss perfectionism out the window!

My Kids Ate Cake For Dinner & Why It’s Really Okay

Embrace Freedom or the Prison of Perfection?

After reading Emily Freeman’s book Grace for the Good Girl this past winter, I realized I can’t possibly meet the laundry list of unreasonable expectations I set for myself.

It happens on a daily basis.

My ideal situation collides with my reality and I’m faced with a decision; do I succumb to the feelings of inadequacy and fear of “what if” or do I change my perspective, look at the moment for what it is, and embrace freedom from my self-induced personal prison of perfection?

More and more, I’m choosing the later. And when I do, the version of myself striving for perfection in every area of my life shrinks a bit and the true me, the one that lives in flesh and blood in a fallen world, comes to life.

As a result, on occasion my kids have cake for dinner. And I’m okay with it. {Click to read the rest of the post…}

 

 

Sharing today with Meredith at Woman2Woman Wednesday.