Parenting
fromScary Mommy
1 hour agoI Literally Don't Have The Energy To Gentle Parent Anymore
Gentle parenting often collapses at bedtime, causing repeated negotiation, escalation, and parental exhaustion when children resist routines.
As the parent of an 18-month-old, I've been reading a lot lately. That is, if your definition of reading includes thumbing through sheets of increasingly careworn and spittle-soaked cardboard, reciting the 30 or 40 words that compose each tale from memory, and pausing innumerable times to acknowledge any shape that may evoke the holiest of trinities: ball, bug, star. At first-when I had a mere 10 months of experience in this arena-I believed that reading to my child would be straightforward, if a little repetitive.