Christus vincit! Christus regnant! Christus imperat!

You only get so many minutes with your children.

You can choose to bring home your stress, your frustration, your anxieties.

Or you can be a source of love, energy, focus, intentionality.

Will you truly be there for them?

*And the other piece that lots of moms talked about was the way in which that being needed for the kids that are older—the 10-year-olds, the 12-year-olds, the 14-year-olds—that being needed by younger siblings was a source not just of joy, but a really deep happiness.

We’re raising these teenagers who don’t know who they are and they feel useless. And they struggle with depression, anxiety, and they’re on their phones a lot. They’re just isolated. And so here’s this whole other testimony that says, well, maybe if you’re 12 years old and you are the favorite big sister of this three year old who follows you around everywhere, [who] basically thinks you walk on water, how does that change the experience of the awkwardness of their teenage years?

And how does it change your sense of who you are, your identity? And certainly how does it prep you for thinking about whether children are worth having when you enter your twenties and your thirties?*https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/24/most-women-have-1-7-kids-these-women-chose-to-have-5-or-more

The Daily Signal

Most Women Have 1.7 Kids. These Women Chose to Have 5 or More.

"Hannah's Children" author Catherine Pakaluk shares why 55 women decided to have five or more children.

•”Husbands, never call her simply by her name, but with terms of endearment, with honor, with much love.
Honour her, and she will not need honour from others; she will not want the glory that comes from others, if she enjoys that which comes from thee.
Prefer her before all, on every account, both for her beauty and her discernment, and praise her.”
-St. John Chrysostom,
HOMILY ON EPHESIANS•

“Anger Transference,” Richard Sargent, 1954.

Prediction for next panel: cat vomiting or pooping on everyone’s beds.