[sugarbabysmommy]

For more than a year now I have been trying to address how my lack of entitlement has influenced many things in my life as a parent, in our lives as a family. Recently I have begun to piece together just how pervasive it really is, how many things that have been off for so long may all lead back to entitlement as the root cause.

So, I resolved to go through the motions in an effort to reframe my thinking. A few examples, I have made a consious effort to enjoy the moment, to feel the pride, when someone compliments babe, and I gave myself a bracelet in honor of babe to eventually be engraved with babe's stats. But I am running out of ideas, and the emotional shift is slow in coming.

This has been a very painful journey.

What I'm wondering is, what have others who've struggled with entitlement done to build on your sense of you and your child belonging to one another?