How Optimommy can help you become a positive parent

Hi I’m Jayme! Thank you for stopping by.

If you want to practice positive parenting, you’re in the right place.

If you simply want to share your experiences as you journey through motherhood, you’re in the right place too.

I know you’ll agree with me, parenting is a tough challenge and positivity is not always your default setting.

And yet when you focus and practice on parenting positively, it can become your way.

I emphasized focus and practice because it’s more than just positive thinking, it’s also about positive doing.

Optimommy.com is about helping moms to become more positive and deliberate parents.

Written with inspiring stories and empowering insights, it is a journal where I share my experiences in positive parenting and notes to myself about what I am learning as I go along.

As you read my posts, my goal is to help you use personal development and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) concepts and apply them to parenting so you can:

understand your children more
communicate with them more effectively
foster a happy, loving and respectful relationship with your children

Optimommy is also about balancing motherhood and self care because I believe that if a mom wants to take care of others, first she needs to take care of herself. While parenting is a tough challenge, you can be fantastic and fabulous while you’re at it.

If you have chosen to become a positive parent and a fantabulous mom, then I’m right there with you. Make sure to sign up to the Optimommy newsletter via the form below so you can get updates right away.

About Jayme

I am a mom to two girls aged five and four. Yup, they were born one right after the other.

My girls Kalia and Jamaine

I used to think I would get married and become a mom at age 25. And yet, nothing could have prepared me to see those two purple lines for the first time. Talk about quarter life challenge.

My then boyfriend (now my husband) and I weren’t married yet. We were in the thick of our careers in TV. We both knew we wanted to do more. We knew we weren’t ready.

I’m a personal development junkie and if there’s one important thing I learned in life, it’s adaptability. So adapt we did.

I am also a very optimistic person (thanks to early exposure to Dr. Norman Vincent Peale), so even if I wasn’t ready to be a mom, I had faith that I could learn how to be a good one. More than just a good one, I wanted to be a positive mom.

I wish I could tell you it was a fine and dandy walk in the park. But it wasn’t easy. Having our second baby unexpectedly one year after our firstborn didn’t help to make it easier.

I’ve learned so many things since then and I am still learning.

Before becoming a mom…

I produced television shows for the local network for almost 10 years. I also worked as a web editor for the Lifestyle section of the network’s website, writing and editing articles published daily online.

When the network started establishing an online presence, I introduced the use of the blogging platform WordPress as an efficient solution to to put up websites that promote the network TV shows.

Then I worked as a university lecturer, teaching college kids about advertising, television production and information and communication technology.

Having been trained in NLP, I am also a freelance facilitator for workshops that help people to make better choices, whether in life or in work, and to tap into their natural potential to succeed.

As for writing, well I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember. I still write in my journals and I’ve grown to love blogging as another form of writing and story telling. I’m actually quite addicted to blogging.

Finding balance

If you’re a mom, you know how hectic being a parent can be. And while working in media has trained me to be used to a hectic lifestyle, nothing compares to this one. Add to that the pressures, worries, fears that come with being a mom.

And so on top of being a positive parent, I am also working toward balance. Balance within myself so I can always maintain a sound mind and a loving heart (in short, staying sane ). And balance without, so I can be a mom and a wife and a woman and all the other roles I choose to play.

Of all the roles I’ve played and all the work I’ve done, one thing is for sure: being a mom is the toughest challenge I’ve ever taken upon myself. And it is also the most fulfilling.

It has made me grow more as a human being and it has brought me the greatest joy “heaven on earth” feeling that only motherhood can bring.

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