Tiffany Williams

E-mail: faithsmom@hotmail.com

Homepage: Faith is the Best!

Tiffany's Thoughts on Gentle Mothering

What does gentle mothering mean to you?

I believe gentle mothering means, listening to your childs cues and your own gut instincts and responding accordingly. I believe it is important to hold babies, and cuddle them. To lovingly discipline your children and not to inflict physical punishment. I believe that parenting is a ministry and that children learn and grow when they are nurtured and feel completely safe.

Why do you feel gentle mothering is so important?

I want to give my child the best childhood she could have, and I want to be the kind of mother I believe God is promting me to be.

Why do you feel God wants you to parent this way?

I believe that I am an example of God to my daughter, not a perfect one, but I believe that for my daughter to know the true character of God, she needs to experience the attributes of his character through my example.

Tiffany's Testimony

I grew up in a christian single parent home. I was abused as a child and as a teen. In my early to later teen years I became promiscuous to try to attain the love that I was missing in my life. I started using drugs at 15 years old and moved out of my house at 16. I strayed far away from God and even went so far as to denounce his existance.

I finally came to a place where I was spinning deeper and deeper downward emotionally and seemed to be in a constant state of depression. I went to a mothers day church service with my mom and the speaker was singing this song she'd written about her mom and how wonderful her mother was, and I lost it. I just kept thinking about how awful I had been to my mom and how much pain I'd put her through, so I got up and went to the bathroom and there in the bathroom by myself I prayed to God to come into my life and "take over".

The road hasn't always been easy since then but I never feel completely alone any more and that gives me hope.