12/07/2025
We love this! Parenting is HARD, and especially during such a busy time of year 🎄, we all can lose our patience. Before getting upset for natural curiosity, fatigue, or overstimulation, take a deep breath and consider why certain behaviors are happening.
Staying calm is a superpower! You’ve got this! 🤗
A big part of parenting is reminding ourselves not to make a child feel bad…
for being a child.
It sounds obvious, but in real life it’s surprisingly easy to forget.
We get tired.
We get overstimulated.
We’re juggling a thousand things at once,
and suddenly their noise, their mess, their emotions, their slowness,
feels bigger than it actually is.
And because we’re human, it’s easy to expect maturity they simply don’t have yet.
Babies will cry.
Toddlers will unravel.
Children will push limits.
Teenagers will be moody.
Not because they’re trying to make our lives harder,
but because their brains, boundaries, and emotional skills are all still under construction.
And that’s where we slip sometimes —
when our expectations run ahead of their development.
When we forget they’re still learning impulse control,
still learning regulation,
still learning how to communicate needs they don’t fully understand.
This doesn’t mean we avoid boundaries.
It doesn’t mean we excuse hurtful behaviour.
Guidance still matters — limits, correction, repair, all of it.
But HOW we give that guidance matters just as much.
Instead of shaming,
we teach.
Instead of taking it personally,
we stay curious.
Instead of assuming they “should know better,”
we remember they’re practicing being human, not performing it perfectly.
We don’t have to get this right every time — none of us do.
But noticing when our expectations are bigger than their capacity
is one of the kindest things we can offer them…
and ourselves.
They’re not giving us a hard time.
Most of the time, they’re just having one. ❤️
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