Want to Chase Your Dreams While Raising Kids? Here’s How You Can
It’s not beyond your reach to chase — and achieve — your dreams while raising your kids
One of my dreams when I was a kid and a teen was to be a mother. But it was one dream among many. I also wanted to be a published (bestselling) author, travel the world, and for a brief period in high school, I also wanted to be an actress (the intense stage fright that I often feel in front of a camera disappeared only long enough for me to form that dream before it came back and reminded me why I couldn’t).
Over the years, my dreams changed. Motherhood was always one of them, and it was achieved twice-over by the time I was 24. And once I’d had my kids, all my other dreams were put on hold for a while. Until the day I realized that putting those dreams on hold wasn’t doing my kids, or me, any favors.
In fact, putting my dreams on the back burner was teaching my kids that it’s not okay to chase your dreams when you have kids. It was teaching them that other people and their needs, wants, and dreams are more important than your own. It was teaching them that they didn’t need to respect my wants and needs because I didn’t.
It had to change. I had to find a way to pursue my dreams again while raising my children. But…
