Superwoman Is Dead

Most mothers fight a constant battle between stress and guilt. 

by Emuna Braverman

“The Age of the Superwoman is dead,” says Samantha Parent Walravens, editor of the recently released TORN: True Stories of Kids, Career & the Conflict of Modern Motherhood. I called Ms. Walravens at her Northern California home to discuss the impetus for the book and her goals and vision. We forged an instant bond because I know first-hand exactly what she is talking about.

Many of us today have bought into the superwoman myth. We think we can do it all – careers, children, healthy marriages – and then we realize that we still need to sleep at night!

BEING A BLESSING

By Sheila

                                                                                                                           

There are some days when I’ve just about had it. Recently, when baby-sitting a friend’s two preschoolers for the day, I realized how much one can forget in the six short years since both of my girls have been out of diapers. On that day, the three-year-old got into the paints when I wasn’t looking. 

I discovered him sitting on top of the kitchen table, making interesting designs on his clothes, and took one look at him and decided he was too far gone to interfere with now. 

Women In The Media: Female TV And Film Characters Still Sidelined And Sexualized, Study Finds

The Huffington Post  |  By Nina Bahadur 

For every Carrie Mathison, the brilliant, complicated spy Claire Danes plays on "Homeland," there are six "Real Housewives" -- in other words, the way women are represented on television and in film is pretty dismal. That's the message researchers are taking away from a new study out of a joint collaboration between USC Annenberg and the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.

No More Secrets - Total Restoration From Pornography

Kirk Noonan 

Clay Crosse's battle with pornography almost ruined his marriage and career. But he found total restoration after honest confession.

CLAY CROSSE LIVED THE GOOD LIFE. He made big money as a Christian recording artist and climbed the charts with his signature song, “I Surrender All.” He had a beautiful family, a nice house, money to spend and a reputation as a stand-up guy. Plus, he had tens of thousands of adoring fans. He also had a dark secret-he struggled with porn.

If Shared Housework Brings About Divorce, You Need To Pick Better

by Laura Donovan

If you’re a lifelong clean freak like me, you believe that your living space can never remain immaculate for too long — and that you prefer to clean things your way. That could help explain the fact that couples who share housework are more likely to split up, according to new research, and prompt partners to only have one person fulfill such duties.

The research, which was compiled into a study titled “Equality in the Home,” reveals that the divorce rate is higher among couples who divide household chores than among those where the lady takes care of pretty much everything.

Boomerang Kids and Empty Nest

It has been only one month since I’ve experienced the “EMPTY NEST” transition.  I knew in my heart that my 28 year old daughter needed her own adult space and a sense that her life was moving to a new level. Other friends her age were making changes in their lives. I didn’t want her to be left behind on our television couch with the remote control in her hand. I wanted her to feel a different kind of control, one that brought a rush of excitement from four walls she could call her own and the satisfaction of balancing real life responsibilities.

We spent several weeks together looking for a place that felt like it might be not too far or well located.  That process in itself bonded us more closely, gave us time to talk and laugh about moving out. Yes, we worried about the finances, but these would be inevitable and secondary to the need for a change that would make her feel like she was moving forward.

Seven years prior to this recent empty nest change, we had the BOOMERANG kid returning home after her graduation from college.  Like many families, we knew this stage would be the safety net she needed to become not only economically independent, but also emotionally ready to decide when and where she would become an adult woman on her own.

The Boomerous Life

Our Mission

Welcome! Thank you for stopping by. I am so excited to connect with  you.  You may be wondering what this site is all about. Well, it’s about helping you step into your greatness and creating “The Boomerous Life”.  If you are a baby boomer, this site is for you. Here’s a deeper look into my mission.

I want to help women find what they want to do with the rest of their lives.  Many of us in these years don’t even know who we are, after being consumed by years of family and career. When we face losses of a spouse or job, some of us are completely lost – “What now?” Hobbies and leisure time were not even engaged in. Deep within us is a yearning, a need to be alive, to even PLAY again or to make a difference. 

In some cases, part of the discovery is to learn how to make some more money doing something that is less stressful. We want to do something, but not in such a mad driven, consuming way or by doing what others define for us.  There, also, is a need for something gentle, to wash over us – less worry, peace….  Some of us actually need permission to do nothing – simplify our lives, throw away the guilt, learn to say “No”, learn to quiet the chatter in our minds, ….

Why We Work

by Bill Crowder

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Read: Ephesians 6:5-9

Not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. —Ephesians 6:6

Bible in a Year:
Lamentations 1-5

In the late 1660s, Sir Christopher Wren was commissioned to re-design St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. According to legend, one day he visited the construction site of this great edifice and was unrecognized by the workers. Wren walked about the site, asking several of the men what they were doing. One worker replied, “I am cutting a piece of stone.” A second worker responded, “I’m earning five shillings two pence a day.” A third, however, had a different perspective: “I am helping Christopher Wren build a magnificent cathedral to the glory of God.” What a contrast in the attitude and motivation of that worker!

Why we do what we do is extremely important, particularly when it comes to our working lives and careers. That’s why Paul challenged the Ephesians to do their work, “not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, with goodwill doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men” (Eph. 6:6-7).

If we do our work merely to earn a paycheck or satisfy a supervisor, we will fall short of the highest motivation—doing our best as evidence of our devotion to God. So, why do we work? As that laborer told Wren, we work “to the glory of God.”

Be not always wanting
Some other work to do,
But gratefully perform the task
The Lord has given you. —Anon.

No matter who signs your paycheck, you are really working for God.

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