Top Ten Things to Remember as a Stay at Home Parent:

 
1. there is nothing wrong with survival mode
2. Your kids won't live at home forever, you hope and fear at the same time
3. That panic feeling that you feel when you close the door to go to the bathroom is normal.
4. What you do will be remembered over what you say. 
5. Every child is unique, so there is no one technique or right way to parent.
6. Laugh at yourself and your children 
7. take care of yourself, so that you have something to give to your family. 
8. Boring people have clean homes. :) 
9. You will do no greater eternal work than within the walls of your own home.  (Pres. Boyd K. Packer, These Things I know, April 2013 )
10. your kids where His before they were yours