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hi everyone I'm Robin oakenshaw the
green smoothie girl and I'm talking
today about why I love young moms when I
put green smoothie girl calm up in 2007
I was one I was young and my kids ranged
from ages 6 to 13 now I'm older and
hopefully wiser divorced my third
child's graduating high school this
month it's a whole new phase of life but
I'll never forget that I put green
smoothie girl calm up to young moms
specifically the homepage had a photo of
my eleven-year-old daughter Emma flexing
and holding her green smoothie she was
the original green smoothie girl and I
was talking to young moms because I was
one but i also wanted them to grasp
their power nobody feels less powerful
than young moms do whatever you do all
day it gets undone by nighttime and the
next day you get up and you start all
over again so keeping up your home and
getting your kids off to their
activities and making food shopping
dealing with crying and fevers and play
dates you're so busy sometimes you tend
to forget about yourself or you just
don't have time you feed your kids
chicken nuggets and capri suns for
dinner again but you forget something
super important you are the most
powerful person in the world to some
people in your life this will probably
never be the case again it won't even be
the case in 10 years trust me I have
little power now my kids are fully baked
they know everything I had the power my
dear when I was you when I had five year
olds and eight year olds and 11 year
olds after that child development
teaches us and those of us with kids can
have seen this the latency phase of
development means that children look to
their peer group as their primary
influence in life so prior to age 12 you
have so much influence on your child's
life she thinks you're so beautiful then
so perfect she listens to what you say
she doesn't roll her eyes or contradict
you just because it will not likely
always be so
so pour your positive influence all over
your child while you can while my two
children when my children are almost
grown i came across the statement love
is the answer now what was the question
and i loved it i tried to live by it
more all the time now i must say my 19
year old daughter no longer thinks I'm a
total idiot she thinks I'm going to
kidiot occasionally now but not mostly
but for eight long years she did so
young moms I just want you to know that
I'm in all of you your power is epic if
you choose to teach your kids about
healthy habits in a toxic world which is
really my whole life's mission on green
smoothie girl calm to do and mentoring
instructors to do that on GSG life
you've accomplished something amazing
with your life it might be the biggest
accomplishment of your whole life you'll
always be proud of that all the healthy
habits you help your children with all
the things you teach them even if your
kids are given you resistance and even
if it doesn't seem like they appreciate
it on most days so own your power my
friends you are changing lives one day
your kids are going to quote you one day
your kids will do what you do one day
they will teach it to many others it's a
dream big because mom's rule the world
I'll see you next time
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