Every Mother Can Keep Her Cool
By Julie Barnhill

Whether your children are toddlers or teenagers, they’re bound to ruffle your feathers from time to time. If you’ve been known to blow a gasket or two, you’re not alone. Julie Barnhill can relate! She

• offers tips on how personalities, hormones and triggers can affect our tempers
• gives valuable suggestions for staying cool, calm and collected
• helps bring laughter, joy and contentment back into your life

Anger doesn’t have to be the final word in your heart or in your home. If you’re looking for a positive change, look no further. This book will help you take steps toward lasting healing in your and your family.

Excerpt from Every Mother Can Keep Her Cool:

Childish Behavior

Okay, I know you’re not supposed to act the way I do as a mother — especially when it comes to handling a three-year-old, but sometimes I get so angry at the mess this child makes again and again. Technically I know this is just part of her bring a child but when I look at the toys and the stuff everywhere … well, I definitely find myself getting irritated and snappy. —Alicia

Oh my, have I ever been there! I remember a time during a February snowstorm in 1996 when my middle son, Ricky Neal, decided to go running through our darkened (the electricity had been knocked out) house. I told him not to do it. I told him to stop. I told him if he got hurt, I wasn’t going to feel sorry for him. He got hurt (it involved a small gash on his eyebrow and ridiculous amounts of blood). I got angry and yelled, and it wasn’t until his father was driving him to the nearest ER (thirty minutes away) that my ramped up irritation (bordering on anger) began to subside.

Kids will be kids, they say. And we know it’s true. But when we’re in the thick of childish realities, it still manages to get under our skin sometimes, doesn’t it?

Julie Ann Barnhill is a popular speaker and the bestselling author of several books including, She's Gonna Blow! Real Help for Moms Dealing with Anger and One Tough Mother. She has appeared on Oprah, CNN, Focus on the Family and other national and regional programs. Julie’s witty and wise One Tough Mother blog entries can now be accessed easily by going to www.onetoughmotherbook.com!

Ever wish you could sit down and have a conversation with a parenting expert? Now you can! MOPS International author Julie Barnhill offers her advice and encouragement via video at iQuestions.com.