C. Lynn Williams's Blog, page 28
May 26, 2015
I Can’t Believe I’ve Turned Into My Mother
As I reflected on my Mother’s Day weekend, I think about some things my mom said to me when I was growing up, like “Don’t forget the paper the toilet seat” or “Put a hat on so you don’t catch a cold!” Her favorite phrase was “Divine Order!” She would say that when we had no idea what we were supposed to do, and those magical words always yielded amazing results.
My mom’s faith encouraged me in tremendous ways especially when I faced crossroads and was afraid to move forward. She is no longer with me, however I will remember her words forever. I hope you had a 
wonderful Mother’s Day. Enjoy and make the best of every day that you have with your children, significant other and those that are close to you.
#MsParentGuru ❤️
Family. Foundations. Futures.
http://www.clynnwilliams.com
Ask Me About how to #HealTheWoundedDaughter
April 28, 2015
Staying Sane Blog Shares
#youcantarguewithcrazy
Bruce Jenner���s ex-wife Linda Thompson opens up about their relationship��
I���m interested in wives who have decided to stay married to their husbands in spite of their husband���s declaration of homosexuality or new gender identity. WGN-TV
12 Quick and Healthy Pregnancy Snacks
Great snack ideas, kid tested, mom approved��
Blended Family Podcast: 23-A Dangerous Situation
The��Stepfamily Zone��Daily
How to raise a black son in America TEDTalk by Clint Smith��
#BlackLivesMatter http://www.ted.com/talks/clint_smith_how_to_raise_a_black_son_in_america�����
C. Lynn Williams, #MsParentguru
Author & Generational Development Strategist
www.clynnwilliams.com/site
Trying to Stay Sane While Raising Your Teen (St. Paul Press, 2010)
The Pampered Prince: Moms Create a GREAT Relationship with Your Son (St. Paul Press, 2012)
Raising Your Daughter Through the Joys, Tears & HORMONES! (220 Publishing, 2013)
April 23, 2015
Want A DREAM Prom?
I love prom season. The dresses, hair, make-up, shoes, beautiful couple, 
everything. The downside was when it was time for my daughters to attend prom, there were so many expenses, and prom dresses were priced as expensively as wedding dresses! Oh well��� proms are still beautiful events, just create a budget and work with your daughter on what you are willing to spend.
I was recently contacted by OXY�� Acne Medication about a prom sweepstakes that they are offering to high school girls. Please read and share this information with your daughter and take pictures of your daughter and her date, as well as reach out to me on social media should she ��win the sweepstakes.��
Pick up a specially marked package of OXY�� Treatment Pads which contain a sticker and a code that can be entered at��www.oxydreamprom.com��for a chance to win a Dream Prom or one of hundreds of prizes from companies such as��PromGirl.com, Tuxedo Junction, Shutterfly, and Nikon, as well as gift cards that can be redeemed for hair styling, limo rental, and more.
Beginning��today, visitors to��www.oxydreamprom.com��can also log in to vote for their favorite user-submitted promposals. The winner will receive a Dream Prom prize package worth more than $2,000. Here���s a link to the press release detailing the sweepstakes: �� http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150420006408/en/OXY%C2%AE-Acne-Medication-Helps-Teens-Prom-Ready-Skin#.VTVN7mZicQF
Want to learn more about ways to have a great relationship with your 
��daughter? Contact Ms. Parent Guru to receive information about her inspiring parenting programs for aging parents, Mothers and Daughters or Mothers and Sons. Email: info@clynnwilliams.com
C. Lynn Williams, #MsParentguru
Author & Generational Development Strategist
Trying to Stay Sane While Raising Your Teen (St. Paul Press, 2010)
The Pampered Prince: Moms Create a GREAT Relationship with Your Son (St. Paul Press, 2012)
Raising Your Daughter Through the Joys, Tears & HORMONES! (220 Publishing, 2013)
April 20, 2015
Is Your Son Missing His Behavior?
For the last three years, since the death of Trayvon Martin, I have been watching a
parade of black boys and men who have been murdered. The highly publicized murders of young, black men like Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Tamir Rice, killed by law enforcement officers, is just a drop in the bucket to those who are killed by other black or brown young men.
As a concerned mother who has two sons, I often wonder how it is that hundreds of young black men who are killed daily? ���93% of blacks are killed by other blacks.��� How is this happening under our watch? My theory goes back to the stories that I���ve written about in my book, The Pampered Prince: Moms Create a GREAT Relationship with Your Son. While there are exceptions, many of us are single mothers raising our boys, who often have no positive 
male role models. As a former single mom, my son spent time with his father. We shared custody and for a while, my son lived with me. During that time, I enrolled him in the neighborhood YMCA, so that he could interact with positive men and not grow up in a predominantly female oriented household. My bonus son spent a lot of time playing sports and being mentored by a family friend who was a former NFL player.
Boys need to see positive men to pattern their behavior after. When you grow up in a household where the man gets up and goes to a job or operates a business daily, most likely that son will do the same thing. It is important that you give your son(s) responsibilities like chores, house rules and teach him to be accountable and responsible. When we don���t do that, we raise a generation of young undisciplined men who miss their behavior. Are you managing your son and his behavior, or is he managing you? #oursonsmatter��
The Pampered Prince
Interested in learning more about raising your��son into an adult? Contact Ms. Parent Guru. Email her at: info@clynnwilliams.com
C. Lynn Williams, #MsParentguru
Author & Generational Development Strategist
www.clynnwilliams.com/site
Trying to Stay Sane While Raising Your Teen (St. Paul Press, 2010)
The Pampered Prince: Moms Create a GREAT Relationship with Your Son (St. Paul Press, 2012)
Raising Your Daughter Through the Joys, Tears & HORMONES! (220 Publishing, 2013)
April 13, 2015
Are You Asking Me to Parent You Too?
If you are part of the sandwich generation, this article is for you…��
The sandwich generation is a generation of people who care their aging parents while supporting their own children. Sound familiar? This phrase fits me too and I didn���t realize it until my dad casually told me (during one of our conversations) that he had gotten lost coming home from one of his daily errand runs.
���What do you mean you got lost?��� I asked. ���Well there���s a lot of construction going on in the area I was driving in, and I didn���t recognize where I was.��� Now my mind is on fast-forward and I���m wondering what kind of changes will I need to make to insure his safety? Is he starting to experience early onset of Alzheimer���s? All of these thoughts are running through my mind.�� ���So, how did you make it home?��� I asked. ���I stopped at Target; told them where I live and got directions home. I also bought a new juicer.��� OMG!
You can only imagine all of the things that were running through my mind! Want to know my biggest concern? How would I start to guide and instruct my dad in ways that would allow him to maintain his daily routine and manage the times when he gets confused? By the way, my dad is 83 years old, lives 900+miles away from my sister and me, and doesn���t own a cell phone. And he is not accustomed to being told what to do by his daughter, and it feels awkward parenting him too. So I walk a fine line between parenting him as I would my own children, and treating him with the dignity and respect that I���ve always given him as my parent. ��
I reached out to Alzheimers.org to research dementia, Alzheimer���s disease and how to prepare for changes in my daddy-daughter relationship. Click here for 10 Early Signs and Symptoms of Alzheimer’s.
Interested in learning more about generational parenting? Contact Ms. Parent Guru to receive information about her inspiring parenting programs for aging parents, Mothers and Daughters or Mothers and Sons. Email her at: info@clynnwilliams.com
C. Lynn Williams, #MsParentguru
Author & Generational Development Strategist
Trying to Stay Sane While Raising Your Teen (St. Paul Press, 2010)
The Pampered Prince: Moms Create a GREAT Relationship with Your Son (St. Paul Press, 2012)
Raising Your Daughter Through the Joys, Tears & HORMONES! (220 Publishing, 2013)
March 15, 2015
10 Dating Tips for College Women
Next
Dating in college can be really fun. It can also be disappointing, frustrating and just plain old annoying, but finding the right guy for you doesn���t need to take an act from Congress. So here are the top ten dating tips by college students for college students, or in other words things that have worked!
(reposted from EmpowerHER.com)
Tip 1
Find someone who likes you for you. This might sound clich��, but it means that your guy loves you even with your many imperfections. If you worry about what he thinks about you too much it can hurt your relationship more than it could help. Your man should love you for all the quirks and cute things you do, just because he cares about you.
Click on the link below to read more tips.
http://www.empowher.com/sex-amp-relationships/content/top-ten-dating-tips-college-students
Interested in learning more about self-care and balance for women? Join us on March 24th for our Balancing Life with Love virtual webinar. REGISTER => http://bit.ly/1b9sCko
Contact Ms. Parent Guru to receive information about her inspiring parenting programs for Mothers &��Daughters, Mothers &��Sons or Dads & Daughters. Email her at: info@clynnwilliams.com
C. Lynn Williams, #MsParentguru
Author & Generational Development Strategist
Trying to Stay Sane While Raising Your Teen (St. Paul Press, 2010)
The Pampered Prince: Moms Create a GREAT Relationship with Your Son (St. Paul Press, 2012)
Raising Your Daughter Through the Joys, Tears & HORMONES! (220 Publishing, 2013)
March 4, 2015
Woman-Owned – Urban Mommy Businesses
Mompreneurs and Urban Mommies — check this out!
Originally posted on
List your woman owned business for free
Woman-Owned ��� Urban Mommy Businesses.
March 3, 2015
Good Grief Sunday Drivers!
Yesterday I was in my car with my sweetie on the way to breakfast, and found myself behind this woman who was taking her sweet, slow time! All I could think of was Today is
not Sunday, so why are you driving so slowly?
Impatient beast that I am, I moved��from behind the Sunday driver and pulled up alongside to see if I could figure out why this person was driving soooo slowly. Invariably I find that the driver is an elderly person used to taking his or her time. The beast in me subsides and I smile. One day (if I’m lucky) I’ll be a little ‘old’ lady, taking my time while I drive, and people will wonder why in the world I am��driving so slowly!
By the way, a Sunday driver is defined as��a person who drives a car inexpertly, especially slowly��or��over-cautiously, in the manner of one who drives infrequently. Ah the impatience of youth!
Interested in learning more about parenting and elder care? Contact Ms. Parent Guru to receive information about her parenting programs for Mothers and Daughters or Mothers and Sons. Email her at: info@clynnwilliams.com
C. Lynn Williams, #MsParentguru
Author & Generational Development Strategist
Trying to Stay Sane While Raising Your Teen (St. Paul Press, 2010)
The Pampered Prince: Moms Create a GREAT Relationship with Your Son (St. Paul Press, 2012)
Raising Your Daughter Through the Joys, Tears & HORMONES! (220 Publishing, 2013)
February 23, 2015
Desperate for Love…
Some of us marry to close that gaping hole. Others of us have sex early in our lives; maybe we have children (earlier than we are ready) that we hope will love us and fill that void. 
What we find is that NOTHING fills that void like a relationship with God. But as little girls, before we know God, we know our parents. As I watch programs like Being Mary Jane… or any reality show that deals with society’s view of relationships, I want you to know is that, the very first love that a young girl knows is with her father. She determines that by how much he provides emotional support and is present in her life. The second but equally important relationship is her relationship with her mother. Here she learns what is acceptable and what isn’t. Programs like Empire or Scandal may be entertaining, but the situations are fake. We have to teach our daughters that those are actors, who are paid to act a certain way. Teach them not to idolize the lifestyle shown in these programs; this is not real life.
If we want daughters that grow up without gaping holes, we must tell them w
e love them. We must show them we love them by making time for them and being patient as they grow and mature. We have to use words that heal instead of those that tear down. She is not a little b*&^%! If we want them to respect themselves, we (women) have to upgrade our standards for ourselves by walking away from dysfunctional relationships. Not every man is the one for you. If he is married, leave him alone. Take time to take care of you. Let’s focus on taking care of our bodies, mind and spirit too.
Let’s move away from desperate, damaged and defeated to caring, courageous, and CONFIDENT!
Interested in learning more about parenting, self-care & self-love? Contact Ms. Parent Guru (by email) to register for her parent mentoring program for Mothers and Daughters. Email her at: info@clynnwilliams.com
C. Lynn Williams, #MsParentguru
Author & Generational Development Strategist
Trying to Stay Sane While Raising Your Teen (St. Paul Press, 2010)
The Pampered Prince: Moms Create a GREAT Relationship with Your Son (St. Paul Press, 2012)
Raising Your Daughter Through the Joys, Tears & HORMONES! (220 Publishing, 2013)
Desperate for Love���
Some of us marry to close that gaping hole. Others of us have sex early in our lives; maybe we have children (earlier than we are ready) that we hope will love us and fill that void.��
What we find is that NOTHING fills that void like a relationship with God. But as little girls, before we know God, we know our parents. As I watch programs like Being Mary Jane��� or any reality show that deals with society���s view of relationships, I want you to know is that, the very first love that a young girl knows is with her father. She determines that by how much he provides emotional support and is present in her life. The second but equally important relationship is her relationship with her mother.�� Here she learns what is acceptable and what isn���t. Programs like Empire or Scandal may be entertaining, but the situations are fake. We have to teach our daughters that those are actors, who are paid to act a certain way. Teach them not to idolize the lifestyle shown in these programs; this is not real life.
If we want daughters that grow up without gaping holes, we must tell them we love them. We must show them we love them by making time for them and being patient as they grow and mature. We have to use words that heal instead of those that tear down. She is not a little b*&^%! If we want them to respect themselves, we (women) have to upgrade our standards for ourselves by walking away from dysfunctional relationships. Not every man is the one for you. If he is married, leave him alone. Take time to take care of you.�� Let���s focus on taking care of our bodies, mind and spirit too.
Let���s move away from desperate, damaged and defeated to caring, courageous, and CONFIDENT!
Interested in learning more about parenting, self-care & self-love? Contact Ms. Parent Guru (by email) to register for��her parent mentoring program for Mothers and Daughters. Email her at: info@clynnwilliams.com
C. Lynn Williams, #MsParentguru
Author & Generational Development Strategist
Trying to Stay Sane While Raising Your Teen (St. Paul Press, 2010)
The Pampered Prince: Moms Create a GREAT Relationship with Your Son (St. Paul Press, 2012)
Raising Your Daughter Through the Joys, Tears & HORMONES! (220 Publishing, 2013)
