Finding Joy in Motherhood, Janet Quinlan

Seven Tips for a Stress-Free Holiday Season

Black Friday Sale is ON!  Grab my course, The MIL/DIL Dynamic - $100 off plus a BONUS of 1 private consult with me to talk about issues you're having and finally fin

How Love Languages Can Hurt Your Relationship

Understanding your spouse's love language (and your own) can be helpful in communicating love to each other.  However, they can also harm a relationship.  In this ep

Here's Why Showing Affection to Your Child is So Important

Showing your child affection is one of the most important ways you communicate your love, build a strong relationship, and help your child develop into a confident, emoti

Revisiting Important Marriage Lessons

What lessons or insights do you wish you knew when you first got married?  When we were first married, I remember thinking, "We'll never have problems!"  Clearly, ve

Teaching Your Child Patience & Self-Control

We often experience impatience as we teach our children patience, but I want to close with five reasons why it’s so important to teach our children patience.   And maybe

What Your Teen Needs

Although, sometimes it feels like your teen doesn't need you or want any kind of interaction with you, the truth is that at this age 12+-19, they really do need us.

Are You Parenting or Just Reacting?

Sign up for my free workshop on "The Real REason Your Kids Don't Listen" HERE. If you feel like you spend your entire day telling your kids what NOT to do, correcti

You Can Change the Culture—One Family at a Time

In this episode, I discuss the importance of motherhood in affecting change within the culture. Today is the 1 year anniversary of the death of Charlie Kirk, and tomorro

Eight Lessons I Learned From Grandma Camp

In this episode, I talk about lessons, reminders really, that I learned when we had our 16 grandchildren for "Grandma Camp".   It's easy to lose perspective when yo

How to Find the Real Meaning of Motherhood

We have social media content creators, advertisors, friends, and maybe family members present an idea of what motherhood is and how it should be lived. Very often, they

How Does Virtue-Based Parenting Work?

Raising well-behaved children is not about discovering the secret consequences that will finally get them to cooperate and behave. It isn't about time-outs or speci

Important Habits for School Success

Your child’s self-confidence and/ self-esteem is dependent on how he or she shows up for school every day.  Make sure you're living these three important habits in

Here's Why Gentle Parenting Doesn't Work

There are many aspects of Gentle Parenting that I think, as parents, we ought to live.  But the problem with Gentle Parenting is that it has been interpreted in our socia

Consequences Don't Work

Most moms are always trying to figure out what are the best consequences for children who misbehave, don't listen, or have tantrums. The answer is when you want to

How to Recognize Low Self-Esteem in Your Child and What You Can Do About It

Low self-esteem in children is often misunderstood. It doesn't always look like a child who says, "I don't like myself."  In fact, children with low self-estee

How to Have a Marriage That Lasts

Marriage is a life-long mission. It is a God-given, life-giving mission.  When we look at our marriage through that lens, it becomes much different than what the world wa

How Do You Want to Be Remembered?

We are so busy with so many things of the world, our family, and of keeping our heads above water, that I wonder if we spend time thinking about who we are - how we want

Letting Go of Perfect - Learning the Art of Flexibility

A bright and cheerful, joyful home is not one where everything goes according to plan.  It’s a home where family members learn to adapt, adjust, and respond with generos

How Tech Affects Your Children

As we begin the month of June, most children are out of school and home for the summer.  And, almost immediately, they begin to complain that they're bored. What do

The Habit That is Quietly Making You Unhappy

Do you want to be a woman who is a victim of everyone and everything and complains about it to anyone with ears, or do you want to be a strong woman who solves her proble