Island Parent Fall 2023

CUTITOUT!
Be Gentle with Yourself
While we experience profound
love and great joy when we
become parents, it can also
be shocking. We soon discover that we
can’t control another person. We can’t
make them poop on the potty, be nice
to their sibling, care about homework,
or joyfully unload the dishwasher.
If we invest our mental energy in
constantly worrying about our kids
and trying to get them to listen to us,
we become depleted. When we try too
hard, attempting to be their one-person
entertainment centre and doing everything
for them, we exhaust ourselves.
When we hold the bar too high because
we don’t understand the nature of
childhood, we see their behaviour as
deliberate, and we find ourselves overreacting.
Tell yourself:
1. My child is just trying to cope
right now.
2. This is a stage that kids go
through.
3. I can get through this, and I can
cope.
4. I can see some humour in this situation
and anger won’t make it better.
5. Children can’t help but be impulsive,
it’s natural.
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