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** My course, Virtue-Based Parenting will be opening soon for enrollment with a special Mother's Day Bonus!  Stay tuned! When parents are intentional about the way they teach and form their children in good habits and virtues,(another way of saying parent) your family life is peaceful, ordered, and with strong connections of friendship between all family members.  Rather than just managing and disciplining the kids which is stressful, you’re mothering them which is profoundly rewarding with long term benefits Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

As parents, we often live in the immediate - here and now.  But an important part of being a parent is creating goals for our children.  In this episode I discuss three important points (and a bonus point!) for why creating goals for our children is so important in raising them.   For more help in raising children, check out my free resources here:  https://janetquinlan.com/parenting-resources/ Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

In our call to marriage and motherhood, there are many contradictions, disappointments, and frustrations that we experience. If we look at the difficult part of being a wife and mother through a non-Christian lens, then we move into dissatisfaction, disappointment, and overwhelm with our state of life. But if we see the contradictions through the lens of our Christian faith - through Jesus' words, "take up your cross and follow me", so much of our life that used to cause frustration and anger, now has meaning and purpose. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

This episode is a replay from 2023, but I thought it was especially timely during this season of Lent. We all judge.  Some more than others.  Those who judge others, are often victims of judging - their own. We're very good at judging ourselves - of seeing all the ways in which we fail or don't measure up.  We're good at comparing ourselves to other women and quickly seeing where we don't measure up, as opposed to seeing the gifts and talents we have. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

As wives, mothers, friends, and women of the world, a lot is asked of us every day!  But the most important thing we can do every day is to pray for the men in our lives - our husband and our sons especially - that they will have the faith, hope, and love of St. Joseph.  We pray that they will be strong in the face of all the temptations the world has to offer to reject all that is good, beautiful, and True.   We pray that our husbands have the strength, courage, and humility to live God's will for them every day. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

So often, we think that we "are just who we are".  We don't realize that we can actually decide who we want to be.   We can decide what kind of moms we want to be, what kind of spouse we want to be, and what kind of friend or employee we want to be. Whatever our stories or beliefs we had from childhood about ourselves, don't have to continue to define who we are now as adults. Who DO you want to be? Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

When we fall in love, we put all kinds of energy and anticipation into the relationship. We can’t wait to see him again, and when we do, our heart flutters a bit. When we become pregnant, maybe especially with our first baby, once we get through the 1st trimester of morning sickness, we are full of excited anticipation to welcome this new little life into our our lives. We don’t think of the cost of sleepless nights, a crying baby that can’t be consoled, or teaching and reminding our children to contribute to the upkeep of the home with daily chores. For each of these relationships, we focus on the joy. And then when reality hits, sometimes we fall into doing just the minimum – and just the minimum is lukewarm. And when we show up in these relationships – with our husband and or our children – doing just the minimum, it quickly descends into apathy. And apathy is often unspoken but clearly felt by others. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

As we begin the season of Lent, let's look at how we live our lives in our marriage and in our motherhood. Our ordinary life is the perfect vehicle to embrace the goal of Lent, which is conversion.   As wives and mothers, our days are filled with opportunities to convert our heart, mind, and body to God.  Do we recognize those opportunities, and do we take up our cross daily to follow Jesus or do we ignore the opportunity to make our everyday holy? I also mention in this episode the opportunity to connect with me through 1:1 coaching.  For more information, CLICK HERE. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

Giving children chores is more than just teaching them to contribute to the care of the home - although, that's an important lesson for them to learn. Chores help them develop virtues like orderliness, patience, fortitude, generosity, and so many more. In this episode, I talk about the Faith & Family Project Membership - a monthly teaching and coaching membership for women to educate and support them in living their vocation to marriage and motherhood.  I teach on the the hot topics of the four pillars of our life:  marriage, parenting, home management, faith/mindset, and self-care.  You can earn more about the membership at https://janetquinlan.com/project/ Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

Before the children, before the house, before everything else except God, our husband should be our first priority. We often focus on the needs of our children which we perceive as always urgent and important, and we sometimes neglect our spouse in the process of fulfilling our children's needs. When we put our spouse 1st, the order of the family is as it should be and together we build our family life. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

 Don't let your life be barren. Be useful. Blaze a trail. Shine forth with the torch of your faith and your love. Have you ever considered that you have a mission from God to be useful, blaze a trail, and shine forth with your faith and your love? That's exactly what we're called in this mission of marriage and motherhood. In today's episode, I talk about the foundation of our lives as wives/mothers - embracing our mission in our own little part of the world to change the world! My membership, "The Faith & Family Project", is a place that supports you in your mission.  We focus on the four pillars of our life:  marriage, parenting, home management, and faith/mindset/self-care. We learn how to: Connect again with your husbandEnjoy your children as you learn to teach instead of punishLearn how to implement systems in your home so it doesn’t overwhelm youConnect with God and let Him support you in this missionReady to Create the Life You Really Want?  Sign up for the waitlist for The Faith & Family Project HERE. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

Join the Faith & Family Experience:  Embrace Your Motherhod Mission.  Click HERE for more info! The most important thing about your parenting may not be what you’re doing—but who you believe you are while you’re doing it. In this podcast I talk a lot about the what - what you’re doing in your marriage, how you parent, and how you keep your home. We’re all very comfortable about talking about the how to do things. But this quote struck me because at the core of whether we’re successful in what we do is who we believe we are as we’re doing it – our mom self-image. What is self-image? Self-image refers to the way you see yourself in relation to the world around you.  This episode talks about how important our "mom self-image" is in the way we parent and the satisfaction of our lives. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

Sign up for the Faith & Family Workshop HERE! Today I want to talk about a 2nd way you can find joy in motherhood and that is in embracing a shift in your parenting style that will change the way you feel about parenting. When I get on a coaching call with almost every client who is a young mom, their biggest question usually comes down to, “What consequence can I give so that they stop this behavior?” And while I do think there’s a place for consequences – natural consequences that result from undesirable behavior – I think that a better way to parent is see your role as teacher and leader of your children rather than a punisher or simply managing behavior. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

You know usually I lead with the practical tips because that’s what people want.  Something tangible – a tactic or a tool that will somehow magically change your life. And while it is true that tactics, tools, routines, and habits can have a profound impact on your life creating peace and eliminating stress in your home, the tool I want to share with you today is deeper and more effective because it is the tool upon which all others will either enrich your life or be abandoned after a few days. Whether you're a young mom or an older mom, I hope you'll make this "tool" your New Year's Resolution for 2026   Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

We all feel the pressure of living up to the demands of the world - especially as we prepare for Christmas.  But as women, wives, and mothers, what exactly do we need to do to prepare?  Does God require us to conform to the world's standards of holiday preparation?  Are we guided by the world's expectations or God's? You can grab the free Spiritual Reading Booklist that I talk about in this episode HERE! Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching