Remember when Carrie Bradshaw has writers block and at one point she starts writing a column about socks? That has been me this entire past week…starting and stopping about 76 different topics for my weekly stack. None of them were great. I was going in a million directions. I gave up.
I began writing about my gripe with “gentle parenting” and how with certain kids it can do more harm than good. Also, wtf does “gentle” even mean when it comes to parenting. Ain’t nothing gentle about this circus! I got overwhelmed and inevitably scrapped the entire piece. I think I will try this again though because there is a LOT to be said.
Next, I told my friend I was going to write about holding space for dysregulated kids and how nobody talks about how hard co regulation is when your child is verbally and physically out of control. I have had years of practice with this with one of my kids and my friend is in the thick of it with her kiddo right now too. She had a major win this week during a meltdown and she was so proud of herself. I reminded her that parents are containers. We contain what our kids cannot. Our job is to “catch” their emotions when they “overflow” and yet this is nowhere in the job description when you decide to become a parent.
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