Practice Makes Patient Parenting

A close friend told me that parenting is both the best and the hardest thing I’ll ever do. Balancing love and discipline is hard enough on its own. Add in parent guilt, busy schedules and lack of self-care and you can feel completely overwhelmed. It’s not about how you parent, it’s about how you show up to parent.

We love those littles, right? But they can also drive us nuts, and it seems like they do it’s right when the rest of your life (work, sports, volunteering) is throwing everything at you too. When you are stressed and overwhelmed, you can’t show up as your best self to support those who need you most (including yourself). For new parents, it can feel like such a huge shift in identity, from being able to go on a vacay at a whim to being at the beck and call of a whiny, crying (adorable) person. For parents with older children, between crazy sports schedules and teenage hormones, you’ve got your hands full too.

Parent guilt is a real thing and it makes it hard for us to take time for ourselves to practice self-care. Whatever your parenting situation, your one hour, once per week sessions will guide you to make decisions that will best support your ability to care for yourself and those around you especially without having to cry and “wine” your way through it all.