For most it is hard to understand that one day we are a young married couple. The next we are parents with the learning curve of parenting at-risk/behaviorially challenged infants or school children.
Every child that has come into our lives has had an impact on us as we have on them. Although it is EXHAUSTING mentally and physically it helps us both grow.
It is hard to explain the struggles we go through and the battles we face with our children because a lot of of family and friends dont quite understand. Its hard the issues we deal with and being shut out.
The easiest thing for our family and friends to understand is to have Empathy.... We have exhaustion because it is exhausting... There is no clear way to parent any child that comes into our home, and each child is different.
Our parenting strategies may seem different and odd, but we are doing what we understand to be best and what is working with our kids.
If I am exhausted then I know that I am parenting right because I am trying everthing I am learning.
I am exhausted, but I also am learning. So is our boy. We are learning and working together. I am told it will be 6m-1y before it will be better. I am willing to wait. I am willing to love him unconditionally and be as exhausted as I need to be.
Every child that has come into our lives has had an impact on us as we have on them. Although it is EXHAUSTING mentally and physically it helps us both grow.
It is hard to explain the struggles we go through and the battles we face with our children because a lot of of family and friends dont quite understand. Its hard the issues we deal with and being shut out.
The easiest thing for our family and friends to understand is to have Empathy.... We have exhaustion because it is exhausting... There is no clear way to parent any child that comes into our home, and each child is different.
Our parenting strategies may seem different and odd, but we are doing what we understand to be best and what is working with our kids.
If I am exhausted then I know that I am parenting right because I am trying everthing I am learning.
I am exhausted, but I also am learning. So is our boy. We are learning and working together. I am told it will be 6m-1y before it will be better. I am willing to wait. I am willing to love him unconditionally and be as exhausted as I need to be.